Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“The Declaration is clear on the point: Liberty, rights, dignity, the opportunity to pursue our own happiness and prosperity in our own way — these are not gifts given by one man to another, no matter how powerful the one man or how subordinate the other. The king cannot bestow such gifts on us, because they are not the king’s to give — or to take away. These gifts are given to us by God, not in His role as Judge or Father or Redeemer (and there is no mistaking the Anglo-Protestant sensibility here) but in His capacity as Creator. … the Declaration of Independence is not only a brief against arbitrary tyranny — it is, if only in that one electric sentence, a sermon in minature against idolatry …” (07/04/25)