Iowa forbids voting by Homosexuals? Property ownership? What?
Our founders rejected the Divine Right of Kings and recognized that human rights come from Nature's God. We all may interpret that God differently but we must never forget that we come into this world with "unalienable rights." To do otherwise is to willingly submit to slavery. Unfortunately many Americans have been dumbed-down and mentally debauched and are locking their own shackles on with their uninformed votes.
i tinks its depends on who you are and where you are...westerners typically defined by the Christianity common thread had a very significant contribution by the the Great Brits in 1260? called the Magna Carta which became the basis for most rights law amongst the colonies. Concepts, wording, phraseology and are of English heritage.
Our heritage with respect to liberty, rights, freedom and democracy are creatures of the British political and philosophical thought, thus Muslims/ africans/chinese never saw nor participated in that thought. We all evolved differently.