[Repeal The 17th]

The author, Ed Feulner, apparently just awakened from a long sleep or something.

[jsanders2001]

Once the sodomite loving socialists get you to question what a right is or not they try to take it away. Then their fellow comrade atheists jump in and try to strip them by saying you can’t have “God-given rights” because there is no God (according to them). I guess they don’t get that the’re stripping their own rights too. I guess when you’re on a mission to destroy a country or a religion you have to take one for the team.../s

[muir_redwoods]

There is no such thing as a right that obligates the services of a third party. You have a right to free speech but you are not guaranteed an audience. You have a right to bear arms but I dont have to buy you a Remington.

Health care cannot be a right if the care requires the participation of doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Those individuals cannot be forced to provide your “right” to care. You have the right to seek care.

[mountainlion]

Once everything is a right you have no rights.

[EternalVigilance]

Good piece. Can't talk too much about the fact that our rights come from our Creator, not from any man.

But there's more to it as well. Rights must be understood to spring only from right. Without a simple understanding of the difference between right and wrong, the whole concept of rights quickly breaks down. (Hence the serious problems with libertarian ideology.) There is no right to do wrong. Never has been, never will be. But our right to do right is intrinsic to our nature, given to us by God.

And there's even more: Along with our rights come duties. Without that crucial understanding, again, the concept of rights quickly degenerates into selfish license.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature."

-- Samuel Adams, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, 1772

[Southern by Grace]

Websters 1828 dictionary:

RIGHT: The will of God!

Now insert “the will of God” everywhere in the constitution
you see the word right.

[originalbuckeye]

In Obamaland, anything the Democrats want is a ‘right’. Conversely, anything they don't want is no longer a ‘right’ simply because they don't want it to be. The Constitution is nothing but an impediment to what the Democrats see as a ‘fair and just’ system of Government. We are no longer a nation of Laws, but a country ruled by Democrats’ whims. How far we have fallen from our Founding Fathers’ vision.

[William Tell]

This is why liberals who suggest repealing the Second Amendment are making a very big error; one which could ignite a terrible civil war.

The Second Amendment does not grant a right to keep and bear arms; it simply prohibits the government from infringing it. Repealing the Second Amendment would not eliminate the right in any way, shape, or fashion.