text: Here's Pius again, "that erroneous opinion, most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our Predecessor, Gregory XVI, an 'insanity,' viz., that 'liberty of conscience and worship is each man's personal right, which ought to be legally proclaimed and asserted in every rightly constituted society;'"
  
  Dignitatis Humanae says: "This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom."
  
  The two statements CONTRADICT each other. There is no way that an honest person would claim that they did not. Your blathering that freedom of religion is not an absolute right is irrelevant. You cannot sacrifice your children to Moloch. As the US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said about freedom of speech, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." 
  
  As I said, mental gymnastics. In this case, the logical fallacy of the Red Herring.