If you refuse to recognize that rights come from an unappealable Creator, then rights come from (and can be revoked by) an institution of man.
My memory isn't as good as it used to be. Can other Freepers add to this? I think there is more.
He is the most spectacularly unqualified (disqualified, really) nominee in my life. He is "Brownie" times 10. He is a nightmare: a leftists, statist with fascist tendencies.
It is unbelievable to me that A.) Obama would nominate him. and B.) The Senate would confirm him.
In the words of the great Mogambo: "We are freaking doomed !!!"
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What you have just pointed out is exactly the reason for the attacks on religion that we have been seeing for years.