From: Charisma News
by - Joe Carter/Acton Institute - July 19, 2016
Our rights as Americans are considered unalienable, says Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint, only because they were inherent in the natural order of life established by the laws of nature and nature's God.
Click here to read more of his comments on the subject, written for The Federalist.
God bless,
JohnnyD
by - Joe Carter/Acton Institute - July 19, 2016
Our rights as Americans are considered unalienable, says Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint, only because they were inherent in the natural order of life established by the laws of nature and nature's God.
While musing on the writings of
author and philosopher G.K. Chesterton in his personal notebook, a
young John F. Kennedy wrote, "Don't ever take a fence down until you
know the reason why it was put up." Fences hold things in we want to
keep close, and protect us from things we want to keep out. But
Chesterton and JFK were not making a point about physical fences. They
were speaking of the ideas, principles, and institutions that surround
the things that make life worth living, and protect us from threats to
those things we value and love.
This
is a sort of fence we are currently "taking down" in America. Since its
inception, America has been surrounded and protected by a unique set of
ideas that created the strongest, most prosperous, most secure and
compassionate land of opportunity that has ever existed. These ideas
were considered by America's founders to be "self-evident" because they
were based on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" (from the first
sentence of the Declaration of Independence).
God bless,
JohnnyD
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