CNN Anchor: ‘Our Rights Do Not Come From God’
February 12, 2015 - 12:30 PM
During a heated discussion over gay
marriage, CNN morning Anchor Chris Cuomo opined that the unalienable
rights endowed to all Americans do not come from God.
Cuomo was debating Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore
on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Near the end of the
back-and-forth and after Moore argued that rights cannot be handed down by men, Cuomo blurted out:
“Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man... That’s your faith, that’s my faith, but that’s not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.”
Maybe Mr. Cuomo flunked elementary civics. The opening sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence clearly affirms:
“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…”
It may be more convenient to Cuomo’s political
philosophy that a select few are empowered to grant rights to the
masses, but it certainly is not part of this country’s foundation.
What’s worse is Cuomo is advocating “collective”
rights. He speaks as if every American right can simply be overturned at
a whim simply because "times change." “Sure, freedom of speech was great in 1789, but we've evolved beyond that as a collective society.” This is a very dangerous slope on which to tread.
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