[rhema]

The line of those who will not obey the immoral law is growing longer.

"Catholic Bishops: We Will Not Obey Immoral HHS-Abortion Mandate"

[Jacquerie]

"This is the clear teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who writes that 'human law is law inasmuch as it is in conformity with right reason and thus derives from the eternal law,"

The idea went back further into antiquity, but 800 years ago it was reintroduced to the western mind.

By the era of our founding, "natural rights" were an established principle of political science. It achieved its pinnacle in our Declaration of Independence.

Today, the popular, barbaric culture would have us believe there is no such thing as natural rights, or that the purpose of government is to secure them for the people.