Quick Hits: On Law and Metaphysics; Discovering the TLM; Overcoming a Pandemic of Fear, by Phil Lawler

A Catholic priest during the consecration at mass

Also addressing the Supreme Court’s tenuous hold on reality, att National Review, Gerard Bradley looks at the little-noticed case of Pavan v. Smith, which involved an Arkansas law that proclaims “the mother is deemed to be the woman who gives birth to the child.” That law was challenged by same-sex couples, who cited the Obergefell decision and argued that the Arkansas statute denies them equal rights. As Bradley observes, “Arkansas law did not presume that what is naturally impossible, actually occurred.” The same-sex couples prevailed. Bradley remarks that this judicial logic scoffs not just at the Arkansas law, “but at what nature and nature’s God have wrought.” Pay careful attention to that phrase: nature and nature’s God. Because it’s a reminder that this legal madness strikes at the very foundation of the American Republic. Are there any remaining truths that we, as a nation, hold to be self-evident? ….