Unalienable rights are rights the government cannot take away.  But in order for the principle to work, government cannot be the highest authority. If no consensus of higher authority exists, then government is on its own to determine right and wrong.  If no consensus exists, then the central government's capricious authority becomes absolute. Someone recently asked the Kentucky clerk refusing to issue a same sex marriage license: "Under whose authority can you deny the license?" Kim Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, answered, "Under God's authority."  Ridicule and derision have been spewing from the tolerant left continuously since the shocking statement was made. But the issue raises fundamental questions relating to American liberty. Can the state force a citizen to do something against her religious conscience? In the Davis matter, because the clerk works for the local government, the most relevant issue is whether the...(Read Full Article)