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    5 months ago

    God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms

    They’re trying to co-opt the US Constitution as a religious text.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t agree with these religious nuts but, in this case, I don’t think they’re completely off base regarding “God given rights”. The Declaration of Independence (not the Constitution) says:

      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.

      I wish the Declaration didn’t include “by their Creator” but it does.