Rights come from our Creator not government

A U.S. senator said it’s “very, very troubling” to believe our rights come from our Creator. Today I explain why that belief is the cornerstone of American liberty.

If rights come from politicians, politicians can take them away. That’s the fatal flaw in the left’s “save our democracy” mantra. America isn’t built on the whims of 50% + 1. We’re anchored to something higher: unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. That’s not theocracy; it’s the logic of liberty.

In today’s show, I walk through what the Declaration actually says, the difference between natural rights and good policies, and why “constitutional republic” matters. I also spend a few minutes on first principles: the universe isn’t self-created, and a moral Law-giver makes sense of objective rights and wrongs. You don’t have to share my theology to see the danger of letting Congress invent and revoke “rights” by vote.

The Founders designed a government with limited, enumerated powers—and guardrails like free speech and the Second Amendment—because they knew human nature. Power expands unless it’s checked. Grounding rights in the Creator keeps politicians in their lane and citizens free to live, speak, worship, and defend themselves.

Read the full Stack post and watch the clip that sparked this discussion below.

My friends, yesterday a U.S. Senator actually said it was “extremely troubling” to believe our rights come from our Creator. He even compared Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence to Iran’s theocracy. That’s quite a leap.

The Founders didn’t write those words as a metaphor. They wrote them because our rights really do come from God. We’re born with them. Government can’t create them, and government can’t destroy them. At best, government respects our rights. And at worst, it tries to deny them. But even when it denies them, those rights are still there — because they’re part of what it means to be human.

Government can pass laws and it can even abuse power. But try as it might, it cannot erase what God has given.

The comment below, made in response to this clip, is astonishing. The commenter takes issue with my statement that rights come from God, not government—and tries to argue the point by citing “separation of church and state.”

A few problems with that:

My friends, we all say foolish things at times. This isn’t about attacking a person—it’s about exposing a dangerous idea. To suggest that believing rights come from God makes someone a theocrat? That’s not just wrong—it’s reckless in a free society.

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