Shades of Ms. Clinton From the First Wife

[Todd]

“God gives us that freedom, that free will, but one of the most precious things about our country is that our government also gives us those freedoms … we took all those precious freedoms so for granted, especially our freedom to worship.”

Sad to see Mrs. Laura Bush is falling into the leftist power play of government and God being equal, or the Government being God themselves unto the people.

The Declaration of Independance:

"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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

The Government 'secures' freedom not 'grants' freedom.

To quote Neal:

It’s all really very simple. A government formed to protect freedoms cannot legitimately take those freedoms away. A government which gives you your freedoms can.