Natural, Thus Universal, Human Rights

It was admittedly a surprising circumstance for a debate on natural rights. On September 4 of last year, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) was speaking during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing interview of Riley M. Barnes, nominee for assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor for the U.S. Department of State. Responding to Barnes’s opening comments that “our rights come from God our Creator, not from our laws, not from our government,” Senator Kaine declared that he found Barnes’s statement “very, very troubling.” Read Full Article »