But it seems the golden rule does not apply to them
Perhaps your critics are merely using the Conservapedia version of the Bible; the version where Christ is a bit less of the "let he who is without sin" guy and a bit more of an eye for an eye proponent.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison