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erased. So, Kaine must have a beef with the likes of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He presumably would have gone ballistic over Garrison’s conviction that the “right to enjoy liberty is inalienable. To invade it is to usurp the prerogative of Jehovah.” Rather than a warrant for theocracy, the Garrison view supported the extension of rights. As he put it, “wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.”

Kaine’s outburst shows how progressives have an allergy to God in any context other than a personal one, and how it isn’t just schoolchildren who are ignorant about our history and system of government. Is it too much to ask that a U.S. senator know a little bit about our heritage?

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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