Joe Heschmeyer unpacks the Catholic teaching that "error has no rights", tracing it from Pope Gregory XVI's warnings against unrestrained freedom to the Second Vatican Council's Dignitatis Humanae. Using the image of a parent hiding the bleach but still letting a child choose their own juice, he explains why religious liberty is a negative right against state coercion, not a licence to believe whatever you want.

Chapters
0:00 Positive rights, negative rights and Vatican II's "no 180"
0:57 "Error has no rights": a conversation with a Protestant
1:59 The 19th century roots of "error has no rights"
3:19 The parable of the parent and the bleach
4:14 Gregory XVI on freedom without restraint
5:32 Dignitatis Humanae and freedom from state coercion
6:29 Positive rights versus negative rights in law
7:33 Faith, conscience and raising children as free moral agents

Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr9nzLfAp9w

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Hosted by: David Hahn
Guest speaker: Joe Heschmeyer
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