Why Liberals Fear the State Department’s Review of the Nature of Human Rights

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Why Liberals Fear the State Department’s Review of the Nature of Human Rights

Mike Gonzalez      June 03, 2019

“Every human law has just so much of the nature of law as is derived from the law of nature,” Thomas Aquinas wrote. “But if at any point it deflects from the law of nature, it is no longer a law but a perversion of the law.”

Aquinas’s observation that human law either ratifies natural law or perverts it is a good North Star in promoting human rights around the world.

Now that the State Department is looking to form an advisory panel to ponder whether the debate on human rights has departed from these principles, however, progressive groups are running around crying foul.

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