Well, this is more than a bit disturbing. Apparently, we have a sitting United States senator who has never read the Declaration of Independence. Or, if he has read it, he doesn't believe a word of it. How frightening for the country.
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia asserts that our rights come from government--not from God, as is clearly stated in our founding document. Kaine likens the primary foundational principle of our nation to the philosophy of Iran's mullah dictators. He completely ignores the fact that there are four distinct and direct references to God written into the text of the Declaration of Independence. Our Creator endows us with "certain unalienable Rights."
Sen. Kaine evidently thinks he knows better. God help us.
The opening and the final paragraphs of the US Declaration of Independence
References to God are highlighted
