Crespo on Norberto

José Antonio Crespo doesn't think much of the Church's behavior over the past several weeks:

The blows to the secular state also come from the verbal rebellions of the Catholic prelates, like Norberto Rivera, when he states: "You have to obey the law of God before the law of the men". (1.10.10) And who defines the supreme law of God? Just the Catholics? Because for Jews, Protestants, Buddhists, Muslims, or Hindus, many laws of God are different from those postulated by the Vatican. Should we also stick to the law prohibiting the consumption of pigs, as Judaism orders, and practice mandatory circumcision? Or avoid all alcohol and use the burka, according to the demands of Muslim fundamentalists, or not eat beef as the Hindus do, or not kill even an insect, one of the maxims of the Jains? Well everyone should follow their own convictions, but in a secular state the laws can't be formed from such beliefs. This is a fundamental of modernity, to which it would seem many are opposed.