"No, they weren't wrong. In fact, that was the exact right thing to do, and that's the reason they did declare independance. They appealed and failed and declared independance. Are people declaring independance from America now?
And, after they declared independance, the fight was brought to them and they defended themselves."
I can't disagree with anything you wrote here. Now the Boston Tea Party occurred a couple years before the Declaration of Independence. You threw out Romans 13 to be provacative. Was the Boston Tea Party wrong? Nobody had declared independence yet.
My point is a lot of Christians over the years have invoked Romans 13 as an excuse to do nothing. Good thing our Christian Founding Fathers didn't do that.
The founding fathers did the right thing and likely knew Romans 13 by heart. They appealed. They changed the law. The laws in Florida obviously need changing in this area. That's one of the nice things about living in a democratic society, isn't it?