Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in a video posted Tuesday that he believes people of faith should ignore laws that violate their religion.
Rubio told the Christian Broadcasting Network that no law is “settled,” making reference to Supreme Court decisions that legalized same-sex marriage.
“In essence, if we are ever ordered by a government authority to personally violate and sin — violate God’s law and sin — if we’re ordered to stop preaching the Gospel, if we’re ordered to perform a same-sex marriage as someone presiding over it, we are called to ignore that,” Rubio said. “We cannot to abide by that because government is compelling us to sin.”
“So when those two come into conflict, God’s rules always win,” he added.
That rhetoric deviates a bit from when Rubio weighed in on defiant Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed because she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, earlier this year. Rubio said in September that the clerk’s office had the “governmental duty to carry out the law,” but that there should be religious freedom protections for individuals working in the office.
Watch Rubio’s comments:
I’m in Iowa — the heartland of America. Earlier today, I sat down with Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio. I asked him about same-sex marriage being so-called "settled law.” He had some interesting things to say about the moral conflict many Christians face when the Bible commands to obey civil authorities but also the overlying mandate to follow God’s law. What do you think of what Rubio had to say? Watch below. We'll have much more on this next week AFTER THANKSGIVING on The 700 Club. This is just a little taste of what's to come.
Posted by David Brody on Tuesday, November 24, 2015
So he’s cool with Sharia law, then?
Put him in the “I Will Not Defend The Constitution” column
Keep antagonizing the Supreme Court, GOP. Call them ignorant. Tell them the Constitution is just a list of suggestions. Tell citizens and elected officials and government workers that they can ignore SC decisions that don’t make sense.
And then bring your cases before them.
Shorter headline:
Presidential Candidate Endorses Anarchy!
Osama Bin Laden agrees with Rubio. So does ISIS and Mullahs.