President Trump responded on Monday to Senator Tim Kaine’s (D-VA) recent attack on faith, the Declaration of Independence, and the American way of life, in claiming that natural rights do not come from the Creator and that it’s radical to think otherwise.
President Trump delivered remarks this morning to the White House Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. The President previously signed an executive order, creating the 14-member Commission to “advise the White House Faith Office and the Domestic Policy Council on religious liberty policies of the United States.”
“The need for this commission has never been more clear than it was last week when the ineffectual senator from Virginia, a man named Tim Kaine, stated that the notion our rights come from our Creator is, quote, ‘extremely troubling’ to him,” Trump told members of the Commission. “As everyone in this room understands, it is tyrants who are denying our rights and the rights that come from God, and it’s this Declaration of Independence that proclaims we’re endowed by our creator with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Kaine denied the existence of God-given rights during a Senate committee hearing last week, ignoring the Declaration of Independence, and claiming that rights can only come from the government.
“The statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling,” he said, comparing our nation’s founding principles to “the Iranian government” and Sharia Law.
In the same committee hearing, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to Kaine and obliterated him with a brief history lesson.
What? Dem Senator Tim Kaine Says Founding Principle of the United States and Declaration of Independence is “Extremely Troubling” – “That’s What the Iranian Government Believes” – Ted Cruz SCHOOLS Him (VIDEO)
Watch the alleged man of faith disavow the notion that rights “come from the Creator” below:
Kaine: The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator, that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.
Trump highlighted the incident while vowing to defend “our nation’s glorious heritage” and religious principles against radical left tyrants like Tim Kaine.
WATCH:
Trump: Under the Trump administration, we’re defending our rights and restoring our identity as a nation under God. We are one nation under God, and we always will be. The need for this commission has never been more clear than it was last week when the ineffectual senator from Virginia, a man named Tim Kaine, stated that the notion our rights come from our Creator is, quote, “extremely troubling” to him.
Very troubling. Isn’t it troubling? Isn’t it terrible, though? How he would say something like that and advocated, really by a totalitarian regime, this is what they say. But as everyone in this room understands, it is tyrants who are denying our rights and the rights that come from God, and it’s this Declaration of Independence that proclaims we’re endowed by our creator with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The senator from Virginia should be ashamed of himself for many things, for many things, for things even beyond that. But in its own way, nothing is more important than those words. They were terrible words.
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