Following morally neutral laws?

[fakename]

If I’m not taking this out of context (which I don’t think I am but here’s the link:newadvent.org/cathen/09053a.htm) I think that morally neutral laws are to be obeyed but obviously for extrinsic reasons. You can sometimes disobey them if they are ridiculous -“A law plainly useless or a fortiori injurious to the community is no true law” (Catholic Encyclopedia). So this makes sense since all morality is basically prudence and prudence is action under right reason. So clearly a law that is unreasonable is not to be obeyed.

But since the majority seem against this view, I am willing to see if I am wrong.

 

[Brendan_McCabe]

We are to obey all lawful authority as long as they do not command us to act in a way that goes against what a higher authority has commanded, the highest authority been of course God Himself from whom all authority comes.

This is the teaching of the Christian Faith.

“Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work.” Titus 3:1

“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.” Colossians 3:22

 

[fakename]

We are to obey all lawful authority as long as they do not command us to act in a way that goes against what a higher authority has commanded, the highest authority been of course God Himself from whom all authority comes.

This is the teaching of the Christian Faith.

“Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work.” Titus 3:1

“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.” Colossians 3:22

Yeah, but its not at all uncontroversial what a lawful authority is. What are your sources or what is the proof that lawful authority means how you define it?

I personally think that the “All authority makes good laws and all things that make good laws are authorities”, interpretation is pretty sound again, because of the need for laws to be consonant with reason, since reason=morality. So no law can be good or neutral if it is useless or unreasonable.