Senator Tim Kaine compares the language of creation of documents with Iranian beliefs

Senate Democrats compared a founding document from the country to the language of Iran during Senate hearings Donald Trump’s Nominee.

senator Tim KaineD-Va. At a Senate diplomatic relations hearing Wednesday, Riley Barnes, who opposes Riley Barnes, serves as assistant secretary of democracy, human rights and labor.

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Barnes quotes Secretary of State Marco Rubio In his opening speech, the panel told the MPs: “We are a nation based on powerful principles, and the strong principle is that all people are equal because our rights come from our Creator God, not from our laws, not from the government.”

“The Secretary continued to say that we will always be a powerful defender of the principle, which is why democracy, human rights and labor services are important,” he said. “We are an individual nation, each nation is made in the image of God and has inherent dignity. This is a fact that our founders believe is crucial to American autonomy.”

But Kaine, a Catholic, found Barnes’ emotions “disturbing”.

“Right comes not from the idea of ​​law, nor from the government, but from the Creator, which is what the Iranian government believes,” Kane said. “This is a theocratic regime, whose rule is based on Shia law and aims at Sunnis, Baha’i, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities.”

“They do this because they believe they understand the natural rights of the creator,” he continued. “So, our rights do not come from our laws or governments as a statement.”

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One of only 25 known surviving copies of the Declaration of Independence displayed in New York City on July 4, 1776 at Sotheby’s on June 22, 2000. (Chris Handros/News reporter via Getty image)

Kaine said he was a “strong believer in natural rights”, but noted that if people in the committee room debated people with different perspectives and religious traditions, “there would be some significant differences in the definition of those natural rights.”

and constitution There is no explicit reference to God or the Creator, and the Declaration of Independence is indeed the case.

“We believe that these truths are self-evident, that all people are equal, that their creators have given certain inalienable rights, including life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness,” the document said.

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Kaine’s emotions draw calories from the bishop Robert Barron Minnesota spoke in a post on X on Thursday. Barron believes that lawmakers “actively argue that our rights come from God, not the government”.

“If the government creates our rights, it can take them away,” he said. “If the government is responsible for our rights, it can change them.”

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Barron continued: “It just shocked me that the main American politicians don’t understand this really basic part of our system, God helps us, I mean, if we say our rights come from government, God will help us, and that really makes the government give it to government, and it is actually God’s power.”

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