Them-False, not to mention silly. What they aren't allowed to do is draw conclusions that contradict the teachings of the church.
OK, then let's go with:
**Sounds like this administration.**
Kind of explains why there are so many Catholic-Dems.
Unless you belong to a Church which holds no dogma, then you're in the same boat. It won't be a Catholic boat of course but it will be a boat of sorts. Or would your Church have no problem if your personal reading of the Bible led you to conclude that the Resurrection of Jesus was not a historical event but simply a story?
Unfortunately, the pluralistic American political model is not a valid model for the understanding of revealed truth. The great American tradition of custom-made churches is the result.
As always, everything comes back to the question of authority and how one views the Church. "There is one God, one faith, one baptism"(Ephesians). Now if one views the Church as the guardian of that "one faith" one positively wants to know what the Church has to say about Scripture. On the other hand, if the Catholic Church is an ogre which is trying to mislead us, then naturally, its views on Scripture are considered oppressive and something to be avoided.
Of course every Church, no matter how dogmatically challenged, has some core beliefs about Scripture which it wants to put abroad and convey to its members(except perhaps the Unitarians and some liberal Protestant churches). If it doesn't then it has no raison d'etre. So you end up back at square one.
Remind me again what is so great about trying to use one's own weak intellect to find truth in Scripture when it has been handed down to us by a faithful mother in the Church?
And the worst is, it doesn't work!!!! Look around you at the motley gaggle of "churches" all claiming scriptural "truth" as their bedrock. Yeah, right!