[Mrs. Don-o]

The Declaration of Independence coreectly locates the source of rights: "endowed by their Creator."

Without this, there are no rights; and there is not even the possibility of an understanding of the universal nature of human rights, such as sprang from specifically Christian civilization.

[knarf]

As a school board member, you'd think I'd have access to the text books but no-oooo

Parents are / will be the key to exposing the commie agenda

I just found out there's gay/straight alliance club in my high school and I asked if I could sit in (one 1/2 hr morning before school, a month)

Nope ... I don't have the proper "clearances"

[Whenifhow]

There is a hypertext link to the constitution in the article.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

One of the hypertext links in the article is for edhelper which is sometimes used by homeschoolers.

http://edhelper.com/

Also from the article note this:
He researched the lesson and found it was met with similar criticism in 2009 and the author supposedly changed it. But at least one school – Fairfield North – is clearly still using the old version.

[jdege]

Much as I like Thomas Jefferson's prose, and for as little regard as I have for Alexander Hamilton, on this point Hamilton turned the better phrase:

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.