{"id":6365,"date":"2022-08-31T16:58:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T22:17:33","slug":"freedom-liberty-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"Freedom!\u00a0 Liberty! Choice!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sorry, fools.\u00a0 The freedom to do evil is not the same as the moral freedom do what is <em>right <\/em>and oppose what <em>wrong<\/em>.\u00a0 We have legitimate freedom when it operates <em>within Law<\/em> (the divine moral order).\u00a0 To plea for freedom outside of or in contradiction to that order is to <em>abandon morality and to embrace evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So chill out on the mindless, ill-defined, falsely elevated propaganda cries for &#8220;freedom&#8221; and &#8220;liberty&#8221; and &#8220;choice&#8221; when such options breech the limitations of Law and Justice.\u00a0 There is Right and there is Wrong and we don&#8217;t grant freedom or approval or toleration for the doing of <em>wrong<\/em>.  We don&#8217;t grant freedom (thanks be t God and those who fought the Civil War) for people to engage in manstealing and slavery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no legitimate <em>freedom <\/em>to commit <em>murder<\/em>.\u00a0 Likewise, there is no legitimate freedom to commit abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 August, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, fools.\u00a0 The freedom to do evil is not the same as the moral freedom do what is right and oppose what wrong.\u00a0 We have legitimate freedom when it operates within Law (the divine moral order).\u00a0 To plea for freedom outside of or in contradiction to that order is to abandon morality and to embrace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12,57,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}