Posted on 02/12/2015 10:19:21 AM PST by PROCON
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.”
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What the Left-wing media want to define as rights are something very different--some of the very things that the Declaration, above, clearly identifies as abuses of the fundamental rights of the new settler nations.
Anyone can claim some nonsensical intrusion onto the basic rights of his neighbors, as a right; and corrupt politicians, temporarily in power, may so proclaim it; but the Declaration is a major document in sorting the resulting issues out. The tragedy is that almost no one, today, carefully reads it, in context. In speaking to Conservative groups, I used to regularly urge that patriots carefully read both it and the Constitution, at least once a year. It will pay dividends in more effective arguments.
William Flax
The left will never understand American exceptionalism until they find out that our rights do come from God.
The left will NEVER understand the foundational principles of America because they
REJECT
God, and that our rights come from Him.
That’s stretching it a bit.
So if someone writes A.D. on a contract, the contract comes from the Bible?
One great thing about our Founding Fathers is that, while they were deeply religious, they understood the importance of allowing the worship of religions that weren’t Episcopal in nature.
Ugh. I had no idea there was another Cuomo out there. It’s bad enough that we had his father, Mario as governor of NY and now his brother, Andrew as governor, but another Cuomo? I am as sick of Cuomos as I am of Clintons.
Indeed, the whole moral justification for accepting the power of Government, other than simply out of fear. It would equate our political institutions with those of every ancient or modern despotism, known to man.
The FIRST founding document of this nation states: 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.
Still no mention of the Bible, of course, but absolute affirmation that our Founders recognized that our rights do NOT derive from man.
and a lot of legal human history.
“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 "
#1) It was written by public servants who believed in 'service to the Nation"
#2) It was written without political parties who wanted "over reach" government, but who wanted to protect its' citizenry.
#3) It was written in Cursive. Andrew and Chris Cuomo can't read Cursive !
...or using the laws of other nations.
Good point.
The moral justification of the Revolution was the Coercive Acts.
The justification of establishing America as a Republic was the Bible.
Which God? Christianity is not the only source of moral philosophy and many if not most of the basic moral philosophy is derived from all of those earlier moral codes that were carried down through the centuries. Common moral truths and imperatives long predate Christianity and most of the common moral imperatives have existed in all societies and most religions since the beginning of recorded time. Even pagan tribes had moral codes, taboos and restrictions on behavior for the good of all. I have known many good, moral, and upstanding people over the years who have no particular belief in God, another deity, or any at all. That does not make them immoral, individual behavior that violates the accepted and lawful moral codes can make anyone immoral.
I agree with this.
I think it’s possible to be moral AND Athiest. Doesn’t really happen a lot though.
Buddhism has moral codes people live by and they don’t necessarily believe in God or a God.
Our Founding Fathers came from different backgrounds: Purists, Episcopalian, Catholics, Humanists, etc. The greatness is what came from such a conglomeration of religious thought.
Only this one has gotten millions killed.
Well, I wonder if Chris realizes that, with that statement, he is one very, very small step away from the “Fuehrerprinzip.” It is truly sad how ignorant of history, and thus of the nature of man, Chris and his generation is, or, if he isn’t, how criminally duplicitous he is.
If rights come from men, men can arbitrarily take them away.
Absolute, 100% undiluted bullshit.
The Constitution is written from a standpoint of our rights already being in existence. It also clearly states that the new federal government is not empowered to violate/infringe on certain of those rights.
Nowhere in the document does it claim to be the SOURCE of those rights.
We hold these truths to be self-evident....
if there is no self-evident truth...
Then all laws are arbitrary and therefore inherently irrational.. they have no reason they’re simply a whim of the historical moment...
And the Nazis at Nuremberg committed no true crime they broke no natural law..
They just violated the whim of other men... a whim that can change easily if the wind blows a different direction.
law of the dumb animal, law of jungle, law that only might makes something “right”
It doesn't actually matter. I am aware that Christianity is not the only source of moral philosophy. Aristotle realized this before Christ was born - Metaphysics, Book V. And I am aware that many people practice codes of morality without believing in God. My point is that in the absence of external authority these codes are arbitrary and foundationless. You're certainly free to disagree.
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