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Mike Johnson: “If our rights come from our Creator, it means they don't…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson delivers remarks at the SBA Pro-Life America Gala

Published | Video Starts at 06:40

I'm saying this to you so that you can do the same thing. This is what I do. Very simple exercise. Take them through that language and unpack the meaning. If our rights come from our Creator, it means they don't come from government. Okay? We're the first country that declared that obvious self evident truth. And the Founders were students of scripture. Many of them were seminarians. You know, you can't applaud for every historic figure. (06:40–06:44)

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Asserts that rights come from a Creator, not from government.

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