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-Land of the Free
CNN Anchor: 'Our Rights Do Not Come From God'
2015-02-13
[CNSNEWS] During a heated discussion over gay marriage, CNN morning Anchor Chris Cuomo opined that the unalienable rights endowed to all Americans do not come from God.

Cuomo was debating Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Near the end of the back-and-forth and after Moore argued that rights cannot be handed down by men, Cuomo blurted out:

“Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man... That’s your faith, that’s my faith, but that’s not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.”

Maybe Mr. Cuomo flunked elementary civics. The opening sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence clearly affirms:

“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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
Posted by:Fred

#20  JEEZ!!!!! Don't forget RUGER!!!!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2015-02-13 23:22  

#19  Rights come from God. Samuel Colt, Browning, Winchester and Remington made them assured
Posted by: Frank G   2015-02-13 22:17  

#18  Rights don't come from god, they come from people prepared for the fight to restrain government from involving itself in their lives.
We have never had so few rights.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-02-13 19:22  

#17  Thank God I'm an atheist!
/sarc
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-02-13 18:17  

#16  The ignorant atheists can interpret to mean the inalienable rights are inherent in all humanity.

Which is what it means, but the ignorant get skeered by religious language.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2015-02-13 13:36  

#15  The U.S. Constitution doesn't say God, it says Creator. The idea is that Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are rights that cannot be taken away by men because they were not granted by men.

If you happen to be an atheist you don't need to worry. You still enjoy those rights.
Posted by: European Conservative   2015-02-13 13:24  

#14  You know, if daddy Mario didn't get hit in the head and became a mediocre backup outfielder for the Pirates, we probably never ever would've heard of these people.
Posted by: tu3031   2015-02-13 12:46  

#13  Democrat.Cuomo.CNN.

three time loser
Posted by: Frank G   2015-02-13 12:22  

#12  So, a group of humans who have the power of taxes, detention, and death, you want them to strive to be less than human nature?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-02-13 12:05  

#11  Our rights do not come from God... Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.

This is not a simple correlation argument it’s a complete mindset. So if rights equal laws, the next logical step is to broaden the definition of the term ‘law’. As an example, listen closely to President Obama when he promotes amnesty for illegal aliens. Instead of saying ‘obeying the law’ he favors the phrase ‘following the rules’. Rights…laws…rules…whatever. At this point what difference does it make?
Posted by: DepotGuy   2015-02-13 11:58  

#10  Mr. CNN anchor only believes in Government being the higher power, which by definition is tyranny.

Bingo DV. The leftist statists would love to go with the government determining all rights. However, as I recall one such arrangement where Stalin ended up murdering far more millions of his enemies than even Hitler.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-02-13 10:29  

#9  Even if you are an atheist, you can still see it as a higher duty/honor/collective will of enlightened peoples to agree that in a nation of free men, these rights listed are absolutely imperative for the support and continuation of that freedom and nation. Once they are gone, that nation and its citizens are not free.

Mr. CNN anchor only believes in Government being the higher power, which by definition is tyranny.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-02-13 10:20  

#8  The CNN guy doesn't get it. The point is that inalienable rights are endowed by a higher power than us mere mortals. To some it may be God, to some it may be the Great Spirit, etc. but whoever or whatever it is, it is on a higher plane than humans. And more knowing than CNN.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-02-13 10:07  

#7  Well Mr. Cuomo are you going with paganism, Druidism, Wicca or maybe one of the neo-leftist deities such as "Climate Change?"
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-02-13 08:50  

#6  â€œWe hold these truths to be self-evident,

Essentially meaning, no further legal opinion is necessary. Clearly accepted by the orthodox, rejected by the endless debating society of liberal reformists. An all too familiar schism.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-02-13 05:23  

#5  That si one of the great things in America. Your rights (lfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) come from God and that means the Stae cannot take them backj. Keep it like that and telle atheists to get ...
Posted by: JFM   2015-02-13 05:11  

#4  ^^^Snark 'o' the Day^^^
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2015-02-13 04:33  

#3  Considering everything his kind hold to be a "Right", I tend to agree.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-13 02:08  

#2  Maybe Mr. Cuomo flunked elementary civics.

There you go...
Posted by: Raj   2015-02-13 01:10  

#1  "Journalists" could try reading something now and again other than that tele-prompter.
Posted by: newc   2015-02-13 00:24  

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