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2015-02-13 -Land of the Free
CNN Anchor: 'Our Rights Do Not Come From God'
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Posted by Fred 2015-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 "Journalists" could try reading something now and again other than that tele-prompter.
Posted by newc 2015-02-13 00:24||   2015-02-13 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe Mr. Cuomo flunked elementary civics.

There you go...
Posted by Raj 2015-02-13 01:10||   2015-02-13 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Considering everything his kind hold to be a "Right", I tend to agree.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-13 02:08||   2015-02-13 02:08|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^Snark 'o' the Day^^^
Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-02-13 04:33||   2015-02-13 04:33|| Front Page Top

#5 That si one of the great things in America. Your rights (lfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) come from God and that means the Stae cannot take them backj. Keep it like that and telle atheists to get ...
Posted by JFM 2015-02-13 05:11||   2015-02-13 05:11|| Front Page Top

#6 “We hold these truths to be self-evident,

Essentially meaning, no further legal opinion is necessary. Clearly accepted by the orthodox, rejected by the endless debating society of liberal reformists. An all too familiar schism.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-13 05:23||   2015-02-13 05:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Well Mr. Cuomo are you going with paganism, Druidism, Wicca or maybe one of the neo-leftist deities such as "Climate Change?"
Posted by JohnQC 2015-02-13 08:50||   2015-02-13 08:50|| Front Page Top

#8 The CNN guy doesn't get it. The point is that inalienable rights are endowed by a higher power than us mere mortals. To some it may be God, to some it may be the Great Spirit, etc. but whoever or whatever it is, it is on a higher plane than humans. And more knowing than CNN.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-13 10:07||   2015-02-13 10:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Even if you are an atheist, you can still see it as a higher duty/honor/collective will of enlightened peoples to agree that in a nation of free men, these rights listed are absolutely imperative for the support and continuation of that freedom and nation. Once they are gone, that nation and its citizens are not free.

Mr. CNN anchor only believes in Government being the higher power, which by definition is tyranny.
Posted by DarthVader 2015-02-13 10:20||   2015-02-13 10:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Mr. CNN anchor only believes in Government being the higher power, which by definition is tyranny.

Bingo DV. The leftist statists would love to go with the government determining all rights. However, as I recall one such arrangement where Stalin ended up murdering far more millions of his enemies than even Hitler.
Posted by JohnQC 2015-02-13 10:29||   2015-02-13 10:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Our rights do not come from God... Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.

This is not a simple correlation argument it’s a complete mindset. So if rights equal laws, the next logical step is to broaden the definition of the term ‘law’. As an example, listen closely to President Obama when he promotes amnesty for illegal aliens. Instead of saying ‘obeying the law’ he favors the phrase ‘following the rules’. Rights…laws…rules…whatever. At this point what difference does it make?
Posted by DepotGuy 2015-02-13 11:58||   2015-02-13 11:58|| Front Page Top

#12 So, a group of humans who have the power of taxes, detention, and death, you want them to strive to be less than human nature?
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-02-13 12:05||   2015-02-13 12:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Democrat.Cuomo.CNN.

three time loser
Posted by Frank G 2015-02-13 12:22||   2015-02-13 12:22|| Front Page Top

#14 You know, if daddy Mario didn't get hit in the head and became a mediocre backup outfielder for the Pirates, we probably never ever would've heard of these people.
Posted by tu3031 2015-02-13 12:46||   2015-02-13 12:46|| Front Page Top

#15 The U.S. Constitution doesn't say God, it says Creator. The idea is that Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are rights that cannot be taken away by men because they were not granted by men.

If you happen to be an atheist you don't need to worry. You still enjoy those rights.
Posted by European Conservative 2015-02-13 13:24||   2015-02-13 13:24|| Front Page Top

#16 The ignorant atheists can interpret to mean the inalienable rights are inherent in all humanity.

Which is what it means, but the ignorant get skeered by religious language.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-02-13 13:36||   2015-02-13 13:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Thank God I'm an atheist!
/sarc
Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-13 18:17||   2015-02-13 18:17|| Front Page Top

#18 Rights don't come from god, they come from people prepared for the fight to restrain government from involving itself in their lives.
We have never had so few rights.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-02-13 19:22||   2015-02-13 19:22|| Front Page Top

#19 Rights come from God. Samuel Colt, Browning, Winchester and Remington made them assured
Posted by Frank G 2015-02-13 22:17||   2015-02-13 22:17|| Front Page Top

#20 JEEZ!!!!! Don't forget RUGER!!!!
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2015-02-13 23:22||   2015-02-13 23:22|| Front Page Top

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