Maybe it is dangerous, but rights and laws still come from man. You want a rock like God to stand on, but there isn't one. Not until He shows Himself, anyway.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. " Do you understand why the Founding Father's phrased the Declaration of Independence as such? You're assumption that the government grants individuals rights is totally upside down from the way this Country was founded.
Yes. "We". The government. Using a "creator" as justification is no different than Huckabee claiming that he talks to God.
did you leftists miss the classes on rouseau and locke? the people grant rights to the community as a whole. they allow some impingement on their freedom so that they as part of the community as a whole can benefit. its is the people who grant rights to govt... not the other way around. no man... no govt has the right to grant rights to others. that is seriously disturbed thinking. Who would that man be who grants you your rights to think and eat and worship and write and think? your leftist govt way leads to Stalin, Chavez, Mao, USSR east germany with the ultimate manifestation Big Brother from 1984.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. The Representatives of every Individual in the United States, appealing to the Supreme Judge of world, whose authority was given by the PEOPLE with the protection of Divine Providence.
You left out God (which leads to Stalin, Chavez, Mao, USSR east germany with the ultimate manifestation Big Brother from 1984).