And this man got elected!?

[elfs]

I think it's pretty clear in the original document, the Declaration of Independence, that we are endowed by our Creator certain inalienable rights which are the rights of liberty, life and the pursuit of happiness... Your rights come from God, that you then loan them to the government, which is why the Declaration of Independence begins 'We the people...'

-- Newt Gingrich.

I weep for this country.

(Just as a way of warning: the website linked to there is run by John Lofton, a Christian Reconstructionist who believes that the only law the U.S. should obey is the Old Testatment, and pulls no punches when he says that paganism and homosexuality are worthy of the death penalty.)