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In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston pulls back the covers the relativistic social teaching that has crept into the pro-life movement called “The Seamless Garment.”
Also referred to as “the consistent life ethic“ The seamless garment asserts that the right to life of unborn children is merely one of many life issues and that a focus needs to be spent on all of the plethora of these issues.
Contrary to adding to the protection of innocent life, the seamless garment has been used to undercut the protection of innocent life. Catholics routinely invoke it in the public sector, and especially to justify the leaders of the abortion movement who are Catholic. This includes individuals such as Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Gavin Newsom.
One of the clearest thinkers and spokesmen for the Catholic faith, Cardinal Mueller, is eloquent in declaring the seamless garment a false doctrine, and repudiating it for its evil and confusing nature. He rightly calls it “intellectually dishonest.”
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/intellectual-dishonesty-and-the-seamless-garment-argument)
The tragedy of the seamless garment is that many well-meaning Catholics can be confused by this false teaching. We know that many Catholics continue to vote for pro-abortion Democrats, and we know that the pro-abortion democrat leadership proudly says that it’s a very Catholic position. This includes the recent statements by Nancy Pelosi in rebuking her own archbishop who had reminded her of the serious evil of intentionally supporting laws that allow the killing and disposal of innocent human lives.
Failure to make distinctions on these important moral ethical and legal issues is in fact failure to clarify the issues at stake. It gives great license and literally it gives the culture a lawlessness - for if the innocent cannot be protected by the law, what is the purpose of the law?
Catholics are not the only religious entity to have slipped into this religious moral relativism. And Brian’s future focus will be on the widespread moral relativism that has crept into even those churches who claim to be “biblically-based.” The battle of our culture is very real and the values of a godless culture are already relativistic. When churches who claim to speak for a higher law, for the “laws of nature and nature‘s God,” promote moral relativist teaching institutions they must be rebuked.
Society itself is at stake when we discuss the issue of the right to life. It is not merely a passing moral ‘opinion.’ It is the very fabric of what allows individuals to function together in society.
The right to life must be firmly asserted and clearly explained. It must be defended and protected if the innocent child, the elderly, the infirm or anyone who is physically under the power or control of other individuals is to be protected from deadly intent.