Tim Kaine Thinks You're A Terrorist If You Believe Rights Come From God
How do People who say shite like this still get (s)elected?
How do People who say shite like this still get (s)elected?
“The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Sharia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”
But the idea that rights come from God, the Creator, rather than the state, is neither radical nor foreign. It is the foundational principle of the Republic. The Declaration affirms this:
“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.”
The Founders recognized that all people are born with certain natural rights that are pre-political and grounded in nature and reason. These rights exist independently of government or rulers and are “endowed by their Creator.”
This conviction at the heart of our founding was inspired by theologians like Thomas Aquinas, who recognized that God created an ordered cosmos, and that we can fully apprehend the natural law embedded in His creation through…