Rubio says same-sex marriage ‘not settled law’

Senator Marco Rubio, a contender for the GOP presidential nomination, told David Brody, a correspondent with the Christian Broadcasting Network, that he opposes same-sex marriage, and that marriage equality is not settled law.

According to Jennifer Jacobs, in USAToday.com, Rubio was asked by Brody if same-sex marriage is settled law. “’ It is current law; it is not settled law,’ answered Rubio, who was in Iowa for a five-day stretch. ‘ No law is settled. Roe v. Wade is current law, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to aspire to fix it. We think it’s wrong.’”

Jacobs’ report continued, “Rubio said the Bible calls for people to adhere to both God’s rules and civil authority — but ‘God’s rules always win.’

“’If we’re ordered to perform a same-sex marriage, as someone who is presiding over it, we are called to ignore that. We cannot abide by that because the government is compelling us to sin,’ Rubio said.

“That’s what Kim Davis did, Brody pointed out, referring to the Kentucky civil servant who was arrested in September for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.”

Rubio seems to want it both ways, depending on who he is talking to. In June, after the Obergefell decision by the Supreme Court that extended same-sex marriage across the country, he was quoted by Talking Points Memo as saying “…that while he and others who disagree with the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling must abide by that decision for the time being, the next President would have the power to bring in justices who would protect Americans that support "traditional" marriage going forward.”

TPM concluded, “The senator concluded that he hoped both sides of the same-sex marriage debate would ‘respect the dignity of the other’ going forward.”

Just for the record, both same-sex marriage and the right to an abortion are both considered ‘settled law.’

The Gayly – November 25, 2015 @ 3:15 p.m.