Don’t take it from just this thread that Democrats are anti-American at the most fundamental level. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) was Chair of the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 Democrat candidate for vice president. If everything had gone according to plan, he would have followed Shrillary Rotten as POTUS. Hear
what he has to say regarding the most basic principle America was founded on:
Standard atheistic gobbledygood, but who the fuck namedrops "Bahá’ís," nevermind have them listed alongside the big 3 like they're comparable?
So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.
It's a good thing actually, at least in theory, because when those people come to power your rights are less likely to be taken from you as doing so would go against "the creator". On the contrary, it's believing that the
only source of legitimacy for such laws/rights
is the government that justifies taking them away, since it effectively makes the government
the defining moral authority of the land and its people above all else. Even when separating church from state and going full tolerant and secular, the basic agreement with Liberalism (as it once was) was:
God gave us free will -> free will.
Free will is therefore an explicit good because it was given by God.
Though you have it, it's preferred you don't abuse it, and stick best to God's law (commandments, inclination to kindness/generosity, and so on) out of gratitude for having been given it in the first place.
Side note: John Locke, "father of Liberalism," thought the only religious group to not be tolerated were Atheists (as in those who asserted absolutely the existence of no gods and the illegitimacy of all religions), as they would bring chaos. When you understand the basis for his politics (the above stuff), having people with free will but no gratitude for it alongside no explicit tether to an objective source of morality, you get why he had them as the one exception to tolerated religious groups.
