Posted on 09/05/2025 8:26:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., a self-professed Catholic who supports abortion, shocked listeners this week when he declared it “extremely troubling” to say rights come from God rather than the government.
“The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, they come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes,” Kaine said Sept. 3 during a Senate hearing. “So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”
Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, blasted Kaine’s comments as “outrageous and really so dangerous to our democracy” in a Sept. 4 video.
“He’s a senator from Virginia,” Bishop Barron said. “Virginia was a state of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, both of whom took it as fundamental to our democracy that our rights don’t come from the government. They come from God.”
He pointed to Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence that all men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”
The bishop added that what’s “so basic to Jefferson was the fact that rights come first. They’re not invented by the government.” Instead, the government “secures them. It recognizes them as objectively coming from God.”
“It just strikes me as extraordinary that a major American politician wouldn’t understand this really elemental part of our system,” Bishop Barron continued. “God help us. I mean that literally. God help us, if we say our rights are coming to us from the government. That gives the government, indeed, God-like power. This is not pious boilerplate; it’s basic democracy. We are a nation under God.”
Barron said Kaine’s language is “a fruit” of “the increasing marginalization and privatization of religion, if not outright hostility to it.”
“Religion is elemental. It’s basic to our democracy,” Bishop Barron said. “So I’m speaking out against the state that I think is really dangerous, both as a Catholic bishop and as a proud American.”
Later in the Sept. 3 hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also condemned Kaine’s remark.
“I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that, and I almost fell out of my chair,” Cruz said. “That ‘radical and dangerous notion,’ in his words, is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created.”
“If you do not believe me,” he added, “then you can believe perhaps the most prominent Virginian to ever serve, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration of Independence, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator.’ Not by government. Not by the Democratic National Committee. But by God.”
Individuals pre-existed gov’t. God created individuals and granted their rights. Individuals created gov’t to SECURE those rights, not to grant them (or withdraw them).
That is the summary of the Declaration of Independence upon which the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land, is built and by which our beautiful nation was birthed.
Truth works.
Lies destroy.
Apparently our good politician, Sen. Tim Kaine, is either misunderstanding or using the position of free will with little regard to God or what it is there for. He’ll have to answer for that one.
wy69
Someone in the Senate needs to school this idiot in elementary school civics.
Wow, sounds really stupid.
But Kaine is just admitting Government is HIS God. He doesnt see any difference between the two.
Kaine may think he’s Catholic but he’s not. You can’t be pro-abortion and be a true Catholic.
Tim, if you really believe that, then you are no longer
a Catholic. You have become something ‘other’.
He was born in MN and was groomed for decades at the breast of the democrat party. He was just an evil puppet.
This boy wants his ass handed to him…HARD. My personal response to him would be that I don’t find his thought to be in any way intellectually respectable or responsible except to say that it puts him between me and daylight.
One of the fundamental tenets that differentiates our government from nearly every other government that has ever existed, is the one that fully embraces what is called "Natural Law" as outlined in the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
These "unalienable Rights" come from God, not from Men. So, only God could revoke those rights.
Men cannot take them away, and if they do, we are morally justified in resorting to violence to take them back from those men.
Kaine is an ignorant piece of crap. He is a damned Senator, and he gets this primary thing wrong.
If there were ever an image that exemplified the American Left, it is that one.
Kaine deserves a caning from 72 Colonial Virginians.
Thank God for this man of God who was wulling to address this worldview that is incompatuble with Christianity. Part of my problem with the churches is that they fail to distinguish between the worldly atheism that cloaks itself in cut-and-pasted portions of Scripture.. and the foundational truths within the Bible. This man took the issue head on and I hope it starts a discussion within all the Christian churches that the fake-Christian despots can hear loud and clear.
He also fundamentally misunderstands Islam. Islam doesn’t hold to the sanctiry of human life. Women and infidels have no inalienable rights. That’s because Mohammwd - a mere mortal - says he speaks for the Creator when he says that one pwrson’s fairhfulness requires thwm to kill another sumply because of their religuous beliefs.
I watched the live feed of his statement. I saw an incredibly stupid male making incredibly stupid statements. If commiecrats were capable of embarrassment, well, you know …
The Iranian government believes rights come from Allah, not God.
Bishop Robert Barron blasted Kaine’s comments as
“outrageous and really so dangerous to our democracy.”
<><>Sen Tim Kaine is from Virginia,” Bishop Barron said.
<><>“Virginia is the state of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison,
<><>both of whom took it as fundamental to our democracy that our rights come from God.”
<><>Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence say it all
<><>that all men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”
<><>The bishop said what’s “so basic to Jefferson was the fact that rights come first.
<><>”They’re not invented by the government.”
<><>the government “secures them. It recognizes them as objectively coming from God.”
I cant help but wonder if he is closely related to MN Governor Waltz.
Brothers from another father, perhaps?
LOL! Catholic in name only...
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