(cont'd from last Tuesday's post)
Jay Richards has some wisdom to add to that argument between Chris Cuomo and Judge Roy Moore on the moral foundation of our rights as human beings (last Tuesday's post, "God-given").
Cuomo's claim was that, “Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man.” It's a condescending tone, as if the claim has been proven, everyone knows it, and the judge won't admit it.
Not so. Throughout American history, human rights were considered important because they were given by God, as written in the founding document of America, the Declaration.
Jefferson said it in the Declaration. Dr. M.L.King used this thinking in his letters from a Birmingham jail. And we use the transcendent standard of natural law (from "nature's God") when we say any law is unjust.
"Sever the idea of rights and equality from its foundation, and all we have left is bare opinion, and raw power."
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