{"id":11430,"date":"2015-02-12T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=11430"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:03:08","slug":"liberal-and-now-godless-media-has-completely-gone-of-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=11430","title":{"rendered":"Liberal, and now Godless, Media has completely gone of the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>CNN Anchor: \u2018Our Rights Do Not Come From God\u2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_11435\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chris-cuomo-2013-cnn-heroes-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11435\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chris-cuomo-2013-cnn-heroes-01.jpg\" alt=\"CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo\" width=\"450\" height=\"323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chris-cuomo-2013-cnn-heroes-01.jpg 450w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chris-cuomo-2013-cnn-heroes-01-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During a heated discussion over gay marriage, CNN morning Anchor Chris Cuomo opined that the unalienable rights endowed to all Americans do not come from God.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo was debating Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Near the end of the back-and-forth and after\u00a0Moore\u00a0argued that rights cannot be handed down by men, Cuomo blurted out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/132978\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man&#8230; That\u2019s your faith, that\u2019s my faith, but that\u2019s not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Mr. Cuomo flunked elementary civics. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/charters\/declaration_transcript.html\">opening sentence<\/a>\u00a0of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence clearly affirms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">endowed by their Creator<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&#8211;That\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to secure these rights<\/span>, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may be more convenient to Cuomo\u2019s political philosophy that a select few are empowered to grant rights to the masses, but it certainly is not part of this country\u2019s foundation.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s worse is Cuomo is advocating \u201ccollective\u201d rights. He speaks as if every American right can simply be overturned at a whim simply because &#8220;times change.&#8221;\u00a0<i>\u201cSure, freedom of speech was great in 1789, but we&#8217;ve evolved beyond that as a collective society.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0This is a very dangerous slope on which to tread.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe CNN will help their anchors learn American history on the network\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/heres-your-first-look-at-the-cnn-quiz-show\/\">new game show.<\/a>\u00a0Chris Cuomo desperately needs the tutoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Anchor: \u2018Our Rights Do Not Come From God\u2019 During a heated discussion over gay marriage, CNN morning Anchor Chris Cuomo opined that the unalienable rights endowed to all Americans do not come from God. Cuomo was debating Alabama Chief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=11430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}