I am not sure if I could ever bring myself to do the legal thing against my own religious authority. It is all the teaching about not raising your hand against the anointed one. How David did not attack Saul even when Saul was hunting him. How David executed the man who claimed to have kill Saul to hasten his death. Even though Saul gave the man the order to kill him.

We know about 1 Peter 2:13 but that was not understood as overriding the do not raise hand against anointed one using legal means.