Republican presidential candidate Marco
Rubio on Wednesday said that rulings that conflict with “God's
rules” can be ignored.
The Florida senator made his remarks in
an interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network
(CBN).
Rubio told Brody that the Supreme
Court's ruling on marriage equality (Obergefell) and abortion
rights (Roe) were “not settled law.”
People, Rubio
said, should “ignore” high court rulings if they conflict
with “God's rules.”
“We are clearly called, in the Bible,
to adhere to our civil authorities, but that conflicts with also a
requirement to adhere to God’s rules,” Rubio said. “When those
two come in conflict, God’s rules always win. 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.
We cannot abide by that because government is compelling us to sin.”
(Related: Marco
Rubio: Gay marriage is not about discrimination.)