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Bishop Robert Barron recently wrote an op-ed attacking me for a point I made during a Senate hearing about the origin of legal rights. The hearing featured testimony from a witness who claimed that such rights come from the Creator, "not from our laws, not from our governments." I find that view, which Bishop Barron apparently accepts, deeply disturbing.

Of course, I embrace the view, expressed so clearly in the Declaration of Independence authored by Virginian Thomas Jefferson, that all people are endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But I learned well during my time working with Catholic missionaries in Honduras under a military dictatorship that

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