Rick Santorum : ‘our civil laws are supposed to comport with God’s laws’
Last week we noted that Rick Santorum had filled in for Tony Perkins as co-host of “Today’s Issues” with the American Family Association’s Tim Wildmon
Hmm I wonder what wisdom Rick Santorum dropped on a radio show like this.
Jesus said “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s” and that huge piece of wisdom has really set the course for western civilization where you have civil laws and have civil penalties - we exact justice in a civil fashion - and then we have higher laws, we have God’s law. Now our civil laws are supposed to comport with God’s laws but sometimes they don’t, and so it is always the obligation of those, for example, the issue of abortion - the civil law does not comport with God’s law, in my opinion and I think the opinion of many people in this country and it is our obligation to continue to try and change that law. We have to live under the civil law, we have to obey that law because it is the civil law but we need to continue to try to change it to make sure that these laws, the laws our country, comport.
In the Islamic world, that is not the case. Mohammad did not say “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s” because the civil law in Islam and the sacred law are one in the same. Shariah is both a civil code and a religious code.