It’s inspiring to see President Trump telling evangelical graduates to get their priorities straight. That’s just what the president did when he gave the commencement speech to new graduates of Virginia’s Liberty University, the world’s largest evangelical Christian institution of higher learning.
Viewers should be reassured that it isn’t just Trump who has his priorities in order; when the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, they too were men of faith, despite codifying freedom of religion as an inherent American right in the U.S. Constitution.
It’s worth noting that the Declaration of Independence mentions God five times — as the creator of the Laws of Nature (natural law), as the creator of Man (“all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”), as the ultimate judge of Man and as his divine protector (as cited by “the protection of Divine Providence”).
God is also mentioned in the state constitutions of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Texas, Colorado, Washington, New Mexico, California and Puerto Rico. In most of these cases, divine law is believed to “Trump” human authority, which goes to show that the president is only following historical examples with the words of his commencement speech. Watch as Fox’s Father Jonathan Morris puts the issue in perspective for viewers.
