“God-given rights” or “Government-given rights” …who is America?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Sen Tim Kaine found it “extremely troubling” to hear a nominee for a federal post cite the Declaration of Independence, which claims that our rights are given by God, not governments. Kaine supposed that only a theocratic government — such as the one in Iran — would attribute the source of rights to God rather than the law. “The notion that rights don’t...