[Malesherbes]

Excellent article. The killer question to people like Sonya is always, "Exactly where do these rights come from?"

I'm old enough to have been long exposed over the years to the left-liberal line that Sweden was a model of what we should become. At the same time, I read regularly that Sweden had one of the highest suicide rates in the world. I always wondered how this computed.

[the anti-liberal]

Exactly where do these rights come from?

The other day while conversing with another university student, a young gal, I pointed out to her the fact that if those who want to remove the 'in God we Trust' from our money, remove 'one Nation under God' from our pledge succeeded in removing 'endowed by our Creator' from the Declaration of Independence our rights would no longer be inalienable because they would be given to us by the government - and if our rights are given by the government then the government can take away those rights.

She said she hadn't thought of it that way. Gee, ya think?

[Lysandru]

Excellent article. The killer question to people like Sonya is always, "Exactly where do these rights come from?"

Shoot, I have these sorts of discussions with my secular Conservatives/ Libertarian friends all of the time. They never have a good answer for this question.