Senator Tim Kaine says rights don’t come from God. He says they come from him. Or from the government he and a bunch of other guys run. He says they’re a grant. A gift. From men.

Think about that word. Grant. A grant is a thing you get. A thing someone gives you. He gives you something. You didn’t have it before. You have it now. Because he, and the government, and the other guys, they voted on it. They saw fit to give it to you. A right.

It’s a conceit. It’s the ultimate conceit. The ultimate lie. The lie is that a baby, born naked, screaming, and helpless, has no rights. Not until a committee meets. Not until a bill is passed. Not until the senator, or the president, or some guy in a robe, he says it’s so.

Kaine said the thought that rights comes from God sounds like Iran. Theocracy. Don’t get your religion on my all important politics.

A right is not a grant. You don’t ask for it. You don’t earn it. It is. It’s a thing you have. A thing you have simply by being born. It’s the right to breathe. The right to live. The right to think your own thought, and to speak it. Who gave you that? Did you see the form? The legislation? Was there a roll call?

No. There wasn’t. Because a right is not a gift. It’s a fact. It’s a given. And the politician, he wants you to believe it’s his to give, so he can convince you it’s his to take away. He says, “You got it from me. I’m the source. And when it suits my purpose, when the season changes, when the mood shifts, when the numbers don’t add up, I can take it back.”

He can try. They all try. But the right isn’t theirs to take. It was never theirs to give. It’s not from God, or from government. It’s from a thing that came before either. It’s from being. It’s from existence. That’s the fact. That’s the real. And everything else is just a racket. A lie. And a cheap one at that.