The passing of certain laws in the past generation, along with the selective enforcement of other laws, has lessened everyone's respect for the rule of law. The reason for such a lack of respect for the rule of law now is that we no longer have the rule of law, but the rule of lawyers.

As is hidden below, Hiraghm nails it. A law that requires one to violate one's religious beliefs is unconstitutional. Would you follow Directive 10-289 if it were passed? I wouldn't. I would tell the government that they could stick that law where the sun doesn't shine.

Indeed it is, but that doesn't mean that such laws are not passed by Congress, enforced by those who wish to oppress us, and ignored by the Supreme Court.

The headline is not what the candidate said. The link goes to a web site intending to smear the candidate and puts words into his mouth that he did not utter in order to accomplish their political objective: make abortion easy and taxpayer subsidized. A paraphrase of what the candidate said would more accurately say that he is not going to follow a law that was intended to violate his religious beliefs, in much the same way that certain "laws" like Directive 10-289 in Atlas Shrugged were written to force certain people into a Hobson's "choice".