JUDGE NEIL GURSUCH AND NATURAL LAW

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Monday, April 3, 2017

 

Thank you  "National Catholic Register,"  April 5-12th, 2017 for this easy to understand article!  Excerpts:

 

    Neil Gorsuch, the Trump administration's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, is proponent of natural law... First is what is natural law?

 

    Natural law affirms that we do what we ought to do according to nature, to our very nature. "What we ought to do is based on what we are," writes Boston College theologian Peter Kreeft. The natural law, notes Kreeft, is naturally known, by natural human reason and experience. You need not be a religious believer to know the natural law, even if that law (many of us believe) was written in the nature by a Creator.

 

    Really, it's easier to give examples of natural law than a definition. Human sexuality demonstrates natural law so well because its so self-evident. For instance, a man and a woman have obviously and observably different but complementary sexual parts that are capable of biological union. A male sperm fertilizes a female egg. That leads to life. That's how the laws of nature, or nature's God has ordained it....

 

    The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1954-1960) states that natural law is "immutable and permanent throughout the variations of history." It is a "universal rule that binds men," that is "engraved in the soul of each and every man," and that is "present in the heart of each man." ...

 

    Moreover, Cicero asserted, "It is a sin to try to alter this law ... and it is impossible to abolish it entirely." He added that "whoever is disobedient" to the natural law " is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature." ... Nonetheless, many in today's culture aggressively seek to do just that, because they like the dictates of the natural law. If you are endeavoring to fundamentally transform human nature, especially on issues like marriage, family, sexuality and gender, then the natural law is your chief foe.

 

    For many liberals, this is why natural law is anathema.... "some philosophers "  have "employed natural law to argue against abortion and same-sex marriage, the field has became controversial, among liberals.

 

    CONTROVERSIAL? WELL, OKAY. BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. ABORTION AND SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE"GO AGAINST THE TEACHINGS OF NATURAL LAW. THEY ALSO GO AGAINST THE TEACHINGS OF SCRIPTURE, THE CATECHISM, AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHICH UPHOLDS NATURAL LAW. ...

 

    Thus if this progressive professor makes that assertion "natural law does not exist" then the progressive professor must also reject the natural law based conclusions of tribunals such as Nuremberg after World War II when the judges told NAZI officials that regardless what Hitler's law proclaimed, they should have known that what they were doing was wrong....

 

    Or consider slavery and various civil-rights laws. One current libertarian writer states that "the greatest spokesman for natural law in the 20th century was probably Martin Luther King, who denounced segregation not because of its technical complexities, but because it betrayed the natural law principles of the Declaration of Independence." ...

 

    Nature tells you what to do, you don't tell nature what to do. Your biology tells your sex: you don't get to determine your sex. But tell that to modern disciples of the dictatorship of relativism, where everything is deemed re-definable, from one's gender to whether a human life is even consider human life....

 

George H. Kubeck

 

    One bottom line is that Catholic-in-name-only politicians and persons within the U.S. Roman Catholic Church disagree with the above and cooperate with the culture of death in America. Why put up with them?