When a Democrat senator affirms that the government owns your rights

Tim Kaine missed the broad side of the philosophical barn...but his view is surprisingly popular. When a Democrat senator from Virginia publicly says that our rights do not come from God, he is illustrating a much larger point than this one secular principle. He is revealing the Grand Canyon–sized chasm between the two major forces contending for the soul of America. Kaine missed the broad side of the philosophical barn. He has apparently lived his entire life in politics without understanding that the bedrock principle of our republic is that the government exists for the purpose of protecting our “self-evident”...