Herein are the thoughts, reflections, and experiences of one who calls himself the Seneschal

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

A Moral Wrong can never be a Human Right

       In my role as a Lay Catholic, one of the pursuits to which I have dedicated time is the public affirmation of Catholic teaching. I have participated in street campaigns on a variety of issues, including Abortion and Marriage. In these campaigns, I always hear people proclaiming, often rather violently, what their rights are. That word, "Rights" comes up all the time; they never cease to reiterate it. They have a right to murder their babies; they have a right to contract a so-called same-sex "Marriage".
With all this talk of rights, I cannot help but start to wonder, what are rights, and where do they come from?
     I did some research and this is the definition I found: "Something to which one has a just claim" Ok, fair enough. But now, let's go more specifically to the type of "rights" that people like to cite; i.e. "Human Rights". The definition for Human Rights is: "fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere".
    Ah, so now I start to see how it is. The proponents of abortion and other diabolical causes are claiming some sort of supra-positive entitlement that carries even more weight than the oft-heralded "Civil Rights". On the surface, this sounds noble, these "Human rights", surpassing governments, soaring over nations, liberating the masses. But, once the mist clears, and the surface is broken, we can see these "rights" for what they are: a lie. Since so many of these rights which they claim are in opposition to the laws of God, clearly God is not the source of these rights. But, if not God, who? No one. There is no other source of "human rights" than the Godhead. For, verily, without God, how can we have any rights at all? Without God, what separates us from the beasts? Our Rights (And I mean our genuine rights, not the abominations so often propagated under that name) proceed from, and only from God. And more specifically, they proceed from the fact that we are made in the image and likeness of God. If you take away that, then we have no rights, indeed we are nothing more than animals.
      That is why there can never be a "Human Right" which contradicts the revealed Law of God. For God is Truth, and Truth can never contradict Truth.
  

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