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Rick Santorum: US Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage is not ‘the law of the land’
Rick Santorum wants to be president of the United States but he doesn’t believe the nation’s highest court has final say on what is the law of the land.
The former US senator shared this view on Monday (14 September) as he was speaking out in support of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis who was jailed for several days in Kentucky for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Davis, who objects to same-sex marriage due to religious beliefs, returned to work on Monday. She is still not issuing licenses but is not preventing her deputies from doing so.
‘I would encourage Kim Davis to follow her conscience,’ Santorum said in an interview with CNN.
‘Because the Supreme Court says something doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the law of the land,’ said Santorum, a one-time US senator from Pennsylvania. ‘My belief is that when the Supreme Court acts beyond their constitutional authority, that we have every obligation to fight that.’
On 26 June, the high court ruled that same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 US states. It was shortly after that Davis refused to issue any marriage licenses which led to a federal lawsuit against her.
‘The Supreme Court made a decision about same-sex marriage, again, which I believe was beyond their authority to do so, but it did not provide anything that Kim Davis had to issue a marriage license,’ Santorum said. ‘It said, very clearly, that there had to be accommodations provided for people of faith.’
Santorum, a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage, lags near the bottom of a crowded Republican field of candidates for president. In 2012, he finished second to Mitt Romney for the nomination.
H/T: The New Civil Rights Movement
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