Rubio Says Supreme Court Didn't "Settle" Marriage Issue: "God's Rules Always Win"

Dustin Siggins : Nov 30, 2015
LifeSiteNews

Rubio was also quoted as saying religious liberty should be defended against LGBT activists who "want to stigmatize, they want to ostracize anyone who disagrees with them as ‘haters.'"

(Washington, DC)—Surging GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, says that "God's law" trumps the U.S. Supreme Court's Obergefell decision imposing same-sex "marriage" nationwide. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/via LifeSiteNews)

The senator also told Christian Broadcast Network's David Brody that the Supreme Court's redefinition of marriage is not "settled," but instead "current law."

"No law is settled," said Rubio. "Roe v. Wade is current law, but it doesn't mean that we don't continue to aspire to fix it, because we think it's wrong."

"If you live in a society where the government creates an avenue and a way for you to peacefully change the law, then you're called to participate in that process to try to change it," he explained, and "the proper place for that to be defined is at the state level, where marriage has always been regulated—not by the Supreme Court and not by the federal government."

However, when laws conflict with religious beliefs, "God's rules always win," said Rubio.

"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 expounded. "We cannot abide by that because government is compelling us to sin."

"I continue to believe that marriage law should be between one man and one woman," said the senator, who...

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