You STILL Can't Legislate Morality

Eric Sammons, over at Crisis, tells us about why mandating the vaxx is, frankly, immoral.

...Modern people tend to believe that if something is good, then it’s also good to mandate it. That attitude, however, is contrary to Catholic moral teaching, which is solidly founded upon the acceptance of human free will. Freedom is a fundamental moral principle. If someone does something that is an objectively wrong act, but is forced to do it, that mitigates and possibly even removes the sinfulness of the action. Likewise, if someone is forced to do something good, that also mitigates its moral goodness. Without freedom, there is no morality....

...when it comes to choices that involve prudential decisions, mandates are rarely, if ever, moral. This involves mandates coming from the State or private enterprises. While a State can put the threat of sanctioned violence behind its mandates, the university which mandates the vaccine in order to attend or employer who makes the vaccine a requirement for employment still violate human freedom....

In short, no one can legislate morality--that is, the State cannot force one to do good.  It may exhort, cajole, persuade, and it certainly can (and does) legislate against immorality; but that is not the same thing at all.

(The Church also cannot legislate morality, no matter the position of a Cardinal who happens to live in Chicago.  He may start his own Church of Covidians, but it won't be Catholic.)

Even Pope Francis knows that!

...What the pope did say was that he believed that getting the COVID vaccine was an ethical option, and he urged people to get it: “I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine.” Although President Biden later claimed the pope said it was a “moral obligation,” that’s not what he said. One can argue with whether Francis is right to push the vaccine, but he did not give support for vaccine mandates....

The Crusade For the Vaxx has proven to be a massive fraud, now that we can look at a year's (plus) worth of numbers.  But it never was a moral crusade, and that's not going to change.  

Ever.