In fact, I enthusiastically endorse those views, and I did so before I became a Catholic.
Freedom of association is a natural right of all men and women.
Because the authors of the original U. S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights thought that the primary role of government is to protect and defend the natural rights of its citizens, they prohibited American governments from abrogating the freedom of association. Any law which prohibited the formation of voluntary labor unions would be unconstitutional as well as contrary to natural law. I think not. He tells the story of his 1990 testimony before the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board against the application of a Catholic teacher in Illinois for a religious exemption from the payment of forced union dues. Citing John Paul and the 1986 American bishop's pastoral letter, Economic Justice for All , to establish the Church's approval of unions, Msgr.