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The Trump administration will launch a human rights panel that stresses antigay 'natural law'
The State Department announced that it will be launching a new advisory panel that will stress human rights in the context of “natural law.”
In contemporary politics, “natural law” is …
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Chicago's Cardinal Francis George: Same-sex marriage 'violates natural law'
… and other advocates of “traditional” are taking a new approach: same-sex marriage simply violates natural law.
“Marriage comes to us from nature,” said Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George, in …
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Perkins: Americans will never accept gay marriage because it 'violates reason, natural law'
… gay marriage, regardless of what the courts rule, because “same-sex marriage violates reason and natural law” and warning that any Supreme Court ruling upholding the legality of gay marriage …
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Politicians like to talk about "natural rights" before they try to get rid of civil rights
… law” can we understand as divinely inspired? In other words, whose definitions do we follow?
Natural Law
A key factor in the development of orthodox Catholic ethics since the 13th …
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One of the biggest antigay activists says Trump's human rights commission is their 'opportunity'
… would weaken international human rights. The State Department said that it would be based on “natural law” – a system of thought often used to say that LGBTQ people are “unnatural …
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Every member of Trump's new human rights commission is an anti-LGBTQ activist
… since the 1948 Universal Declaration” of Human Rights. The group will focus, he said, on “natural law.”
Natural law is a philosophical thought that says that certain rights are inherent …
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A longtime anti-LGBTQ leader is behind the State Department's new human rights panel
… case with the new advisory panel meant to look at rights in the context of “natural law,” a code phrase for anti-LGBTQ prejudice.
There’s plenty of reason to …
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Senate confirms gay man as ambassador to Cameroon. Homosexuality is still illegal there.
… Joe Biden is sending us? As a reminder, homosexuality is a crime according to Cameroonian law, the divine natural law.”
In his statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in …
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The Catholic Church is still trying to kill Joan of Arc
… in the development of orthodox Catholic ethics since the 13th century is the concept of “Natural Law,” which includes a set of standards the Church has inferred follow an ordering …
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Pope Francis once again "clearly" refuses to affirm same-sex marriages
… acts” are “intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law.”
This confirms what the Vatican reaffirmed in writing in March. Asked if clergy within the Catholic Church were allowed …
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Billionaire Richard Branson's space flight was expensive. You paid the cost & didn't know it.
… have been led to believe Catholic Church teaching since the Middle Ages, a “God-inspired natural law” that the rich deserve what they make without any governmental regulations getting in …
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The Vatican is attacking an Italian LGBTQ rights bill in unprecedented act of political meddling
… the Roman Catholic Church maintains that “homosexual acts” are “intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law.”
Pope Francis has expressed some support for the LGBTQ community in the past …
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This is what the Catholic church would do if they were actually worried about the children
… depravity, tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are gravely disordered. They are contrary to natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of love [i.e., offspring …
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Organized religions rarely agree on much except for one thing: Oppression of LGBTQ people
… tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are gravely/intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of love [i.e., children …
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Should religious leaders be held responsible for oppressing LGBTQ people?
… tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life [reproduction]. They do …
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Bill Barr may have been the most dangerous Attorney General ever
… eternal law.” He said as much quite proudly in an address at the Notre Dame Law School in 2019.
Natural law has been used to argue against LGBTQ rights for …
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Don't let Pope Francis’ nice words confuse you. The Church is still discriminating against us.
… Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are gravely disordered. They are contrary to natural law. They close the …
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The American Dilemma: We're suffering from incrementalism caused by the religious majority
… tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered’. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not …
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Donald Trump's performance masquerading as a leader isn't even original
… of a people as opposed to Nazism’s reliance on biology, he did assert a “natural law” thesis that “stronger” people had the right to dominate the “inferior.” For example …
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A call to intervene against authoritarianism everywhere. Including in D.C.
… and a call for a conservative counter-revolution “plac[ing] all of life under the natural law of Creation.”
From this there emerge in the field of politics the following …