Imagine if these were Muslims...Gingrich would be all over this.
In Journey into America, we asked Muslims and non-Muslims if their religious beliefs were in conflict with the law, which would take precedence.
Mormons actually answered that religion would take precedence 69 percent of the time. Much lower were the Protestants at 40 percent and the Catholics at 43 percent. The religious group that answered religion in the lowest numbers were Jews, who said religion would take precedent only 24 percent of the time versus 51 percent who said the law.
Muslims answered religion slightly more often than Christians at 57 percent. Sunni Muslims answered that religion takes precedence more often that Shia at 59 percent to 38 percent respectively.
Even some atheists and Agnostics, held that since law is created and often changed by corrupt people and therefore fallible, their moral beliefs would take precedence. 20 percent of Atheists and 17 percent of Agnostic people said that their beliefs would come first.