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‘Genuinely stupid’: Dem slammed for scoffing at the premise our Rights come from our Creator

September 5, 2025 | | Print Article

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) really stepped in it when he declared that he found the idea of God-given rights “extremely troubling.”

Keep in mind, the Declaration of Independence clearly states, “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.”

“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,” Kaine said Wednesday.

“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,” Kaine added.

The ill-informed comment came during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing for Riley Barnes, who was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Fox News reported.

“Barnes noted in his statement that he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent comments emphasizing the U.S. was founded on the principle ‘that all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our Creator; not from our laws, not from our governments,'” the network reported.

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Of course, Kaine is a member of the progressive left cabal in Congress that would throw the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence out with the wash if given the opportunity — he was hand-picked by Hillary Clinton in 2016 to be her vice presidential running mate.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was quick to denounce Kaine’s stance.

“I almost fell out of my chair because that ‘radical and dangerous notion’ — in his words — is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created,” Cruz said in a clip he shared online:

And Cruz was far from alone. Speaker Mike Johnson posted a reminder the founders knew all too well, which is that “if our rights are given by government, and not by God, then the government can simply take them away.”

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“We know that Democrats would love that, but you are not supposed to say it out loud,” the speaker added.

Bishop Robert Barron, from the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, reminded followers in a video that government exists “to secure” our God-given rights:

A common theme online was that if Kaine does not believe in our founding principles, then perhaps the Democrat should be removed from office.

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Here’s a sampling of other responses to the story, as seen on X:

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