The display of rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme Court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage across the nation turned into a political hot-button issue on Monday as the White House took heat for its diversity-inspired colors and Facebook users reacted to altered profile pictures.

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee criticized President Barack Obama for the display at the White House, which had been lit up up in rainbow colors on Friday night, the Citizen-Times noted.

"If I'm in the White House, you will not see the rainbow colors posted," the former Arkansas governor promised the crowd at a campaign event on Monday at a restaurant in Asheville, a city known to have a large gay-friendly population, according to the newspaper.

Huckabee argued that the Supreme Court overstepped its bounds in Obergefell vs. Hodges and that proponents of same-sex marriage should have made their case through the legislative process.

"When the courts, by the slimmest of margins, make a decision that they make -- pulling something out of thin air that is never mentioned in the Constitution -- it really creates a situation where I would ask, 'If, in a few years, you have a court that narrowly decides the other way, will people celebrate the same?'" Huckabee wondered. "I doubt they will."

While perturbed by the White House display, Huckabee was silent on the fact that more than 350 American companies had filed friend-of-the-court briefs urging the justices to strike down same-sex marriage bans, according to the Washington Post. After the verdict, Facebook -- one of the supporters -- offered its users a color-changing tool to celebrate the court's historic decision.

But proponents of "traditional marriage" apparently also wanted to make their point on social media and received some help from RightWingNews.com, which provided a tool to give Facebook profile pictures a translucent Stars and Stripes overlay, the Independent noted.

"Want to counter the Rainbow Flag FB profile pic? American Flag your Facebook profile," one early adopter tweeted, according to the British newspaper.