What Human Rights?

[Catholic_Lady]

Except I never used the word "animals."  I said "mankind."  I guess you assumed what I said, instead of reading what you quoted me saying?

I still have an unanswered question.  What, ANYWHERE, leads you to think that God has established rights which all human beings should expect to enjoy, thereby establishing those rights as absolute, and not as purely arbitrary?  You say you have this idea.  I just want to know where it comes from.  Not the Bible, you say?  The catechism?  Okay, show me.

Whoa, totally misread that. Sorry, I was side tracked watching some Big Bang Theory with my husband.

Here is a Catholic site that explains what the Catholic position is in regards to human rights. When you see "compendium" listed as the source, they are referring to the catechism

EDIT TO ADD:

Here's an excerpt to be sure I'm not going against the rules:

"In the Church's view, human rights are not something that man creates out of whole cloth, on mere subjective whim, by social contract, or through popular vote.  Man is not the measure of human rights.  God is the measure of human rights.  In the eyes of the Church, human rights are based upon an objective moral order.  Most fundamentally, human rights are built upon human dignity, which, as we may recall, comes from the fact that man is made in the image and likeness of God and is called to communion with God.  The "roots of human rights," the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church observes, "are to be found in the dignity that belongs to each human being." (Compendium, No. 152)"