More Idiocy from Zuhlsdorf | National Catholic Reporter

More Idiocy from Zuhlsdorf | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Jesus freedom can not be far from the freedom in Aristotle and Aquinas, which comes from the attraction to the Good or God.  If everyone has such a freedom as part of their human nature (which is divinely granted and ordained), then Rousseau's rule of unanimity applies - at least to such questions involving the freedom to do what one chooses morally (provided it does not impinge on the freedom or welfare of others).  That, by the way, is how to square liberalism with Catholicism.  It is why prohibition of alcohol was (and drugs is) wrong - even if in the case of alcohol the Catholic Church had a conscience exemption for sacramental wine.  It is why smoking will never be totally ban, why prostitution should be legal (but trafficking illegal) and why attempts to end legal abortion must be weighed against both the rest of the law on murder and tort relief and the type of enforcement mechanisms employed if such regulation were to occur.