WATCH–Sen. Tim Kaine: ‘Extremely Troubling’ to Say Natural Rights Are from God

Darth · Sep 4, 2025

I mean, he's correct. Sort of. They don't "come from" governments either.

JaguarJaguarGolf · Sep 4, 2025

It’s in the Declaration of Independence…”that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights…

Saltwater60 · Sep 4, 2025

I believe in God and I believe in our rights but I can assure you the Bible does not mention rights except being saved by belief in Jesus. The Bible doesn’t mention my freedom to …..

tgenec86 · Sep 4, 2025

Separation Of Church And State... Keep it simple.

Zerex · Sep 15, 2025

God may be love and understanding, but also the ten commandments..........the basis of all civil and criminal laws, not unlike the Code of Hammaurbi and the Law Codes in old Kingdom Egypt.

Even the new testament recognizes the Ten Commandments, as does late comer, Islam.

Laws come from God, and do interfere with the natural rights of the unfettered.

Phazer · Sep 15, 2025

JaguarJaguarGolf said:
It’s in the Declaration of Independence…”that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights…

He can't read it.... it's in a cursive colonial font.

S&W Fan · Sep 15, 2025

What’s actually extremely troubling is the level of infiltration of the socialist commie mindset in our own government.

Grimscale · Sep 16, 2025

JaguarJaguarGolf said:
It’s in the Declaration of Independence…”that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights…

which, if you understand the mentality of the day, is as generic as they could get. They specifically did not say "God" because they wanted to avoid declaring any single religion.

But let people keep pushing for religion in government. I'll sit back and laugh when it's not THEIR religion that ends up on top.

Zerex · Sep 16, 2025

The Declaration of Independence is not a legal document, but a statement of intent to rebel.
It has no standing in truth.

The inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, is always met by reality in the form of civil and criminal laws/codes, that are thousands of years old.

Notice, nothing is defined to prohibit speeding tickets, gun laws, the Draft, Income Tax, etc etc.

GOPerfect · Sep 16, 2025

inalienable (adjective)

unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor:

GOPerfect · Sep 16, 2025

Despite the religious rhetoric, the sobering reality is that the legal existence of rights requires not a deity, but human political action. Without the framers creating the Bill of Rights and etching them into law, fundamental freedoms such as free speech, religious freedom, due process, etc., would not exist. Credit God for rights if you wish, pontificate all you want about their heavenly origins, but only human action can make liberty real.

Even more absurd is the claim that the government can’t take away our rights. Wishful thinking! Of course, it can. On the constitutional level, the framers even created a mechanism for doing so—it's called the amendment process. Any constitutional right—free speech, free press, due process, etc.—could be eliminated by constitutional amendment. To be more specific, a vote of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of the state legislatures can repeal any constitutional right. However unlikely it may seem, all of our "God-given" rights are ultimately vulnerable to governmental action. Only the will of the people protects them.

A few wrong votes and a signature.... our Rights can disappear like a fart in a wind storm.

WATCH–Sen. Tim Kaine: ‘Extremely Troubling’ to Say Natural Rights Are from God

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