Posted on 09/22/2025 11:11:32 AM PDT by johnnygeneric
Below is my column in The Hill on the controversial remarks of Sen. Tim Kaine (D. Va.) denouncing a nominee who believed in natural law and the concept of God-given rights. By the end of the hearing, Kaine effectively lumped Alexander Hamilton with Ayatollah Khomeini in his statement at the committee hearing.
Here is the column:
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) this week warned the American people that a Trump nominee for a State Department position was an extremist, cut from the same cloth as the Iranian mullahs and religious extremists.
Riley Barnes, nominated to serve as assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, revealed his dangerous proclivities to Kaine in his opening statement when he said that “all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our creator; not from our laws, not from our governments.”
It was a line that should be familiar to any citizen — virtually ripped from the Declaration of Independence, our founding document that is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
Yet Kaine offered a very surprising response in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
“The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes,” he said. “It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia (sic) law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. They do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”
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Kaine is a sad solid-waste-product of public school education.
Has anyone ever gotten Tim Kaine under oath to discuss his dealings with Christopher Steele?
Hint, hint...
The only reasonable response to crappola like this is raucous laughter . Just laugh.
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It’s a good thing other leaders understand and respect how we feel about our rights. Liberals often can’t help being morons as they don’t think for themselves. No government will take away my God-given rights as long as I breathe.
arrrgggg.
Creepy Clown
Kaine misses the essentials, which are the differences between what we believe ARE our God given rights - LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS, as opposed to what Shia Muslim “law” considers as rights, and how the Declaration of Independence states directly that those rights are unalienable and cannot be taken by government.
If Kaine really and truly thinks that is akin to the beliefs of the Mullahs of Tehran, he is either so ignorant, or so deceitful, that he needs to resign from government.
I'm going to take a hard pass on that.
Late 1940s...early 1950s we put ‘in God we trust’ on our money and “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. We did not do this because we suddenly became a theocracy or became religious.
We did this because we saw both Nazi and Communist government which originated with “rational” efforts of government. We in the USA concluded we want to make it clear that government is not to be worshiped. Trust in government leads to hell.
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