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Why Religious Conservatives Should Embrace Secular Rights

A Call for Conservatives to Rethink the Source of Rights for a Stronger Defense of Liberty

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Craig Biddle
Apr 19, 2016
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Conservatives, like the Founders of America, substantially recognize the need for objective rights—rights derived not from governments but from immutable facts—rights people possess prior to the existence of governments—rights governments are properly formed to protect. And conservatives acknowledge that the leftist notion that rights come from governme…

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