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It may come as a shocking surprise here, but human rights are not actually conferred by the Constitution or any other piece of paper.

Human rights are “endowed by our Creator” and so the actual function of the Constitution is to protect those rights, and any logical person could reason that our Creator would probably not endow only certain persons or citizens with those rights.

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If you’re going to believe in a creator anyway, why not decide they have arbitrarily chosen to favor one group over another?

Are you American?

No. Do explain why that’s relevant.



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