A sitting Senator from Virginia has recently stated that he finds it “extremely troubling” for anyone to teach or believe that that our rights come from God rather than from our laws or our government. I find it “extremely troubling” that we have a Senator who finds that “extremely troubling.” The simple fact of the matter is that if our rights come from the government, the government can take away our rights. (If it is theirs to give, it is theirs to take away.) Since our rights proceed from our Creator God, then it becomes the governments duty not to give or take away, but simply protect what God has given.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
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