“Dear MAGA, can you please tell me what you mean by God-given rights? I hear this phrase constantly and I’m genuinely trying to figure out what it means. I can’t seem to find anything about God assigning a specific geographic location and then giving the people who happen to live there a special set of rights.

And while we’re on the topic, who exactly were those rights given to? Because it seems contradictory to say God gave Americans certain rights, which would imply that everyone born on this particular patch of earth automatically gets them.

So why do so many of you want to limit or erase those so-called God-given rights for some people? If God gave them, who are you to take them?

Is there a special qualification process? Some trait a person has to have to receive these rights? Because if they’re truly God-given, it seems like the only requirement would be being born and alive. But that doesn’t appear to be the standard, based on the number of people you try to strip of them.

Do you maybe mean human rights? Because that would make more sense. All God would need us to be is human, and those rights would exist inherently and intrinsically simply because we’re alive. No asterisks. Just “be a living human.”

“Be a living human who happens to be born at this longitude and latitude on this one planet in the universe gets special rights” seems a little petty for God.

So what is the real criteria? Is it being a particular kind of person? Someone who labels themselves with a religion you approve of? Someone who, through no choice of their own, was born a certain gender, race, or appearance?

How is it that God made all of us, and we were all supposedly born with these rights, and those rights were later written into the U.S. Constitution, yet somehow they aren’t meant to apply to everyone?

Apparently not everyone gets the pursuit of happiness. Because when someone’s version of happiness conflicts with your version, suddenly you want to limit their God-given rights. You want to put parameters around them based on their love, their choices, their appearance. Based on your beliefs, your fears, and your personal preferences for how other people should live.

Those God-given rights don’t seem to transfer very well to people with brown skin. Or people who love someone of the same sex. Or people who practice a different religion than yours. Or people who choose not to marry, not to have children, or not to follow the prescribed path.

In practice, their pursuit of happiness and their “God-given rights” are constantly under attack by you.

So when you say our God-given rights, I’m curious.

Who exactly is “our”?

What rights are we talking about?

How does someone qualify for them?

How do they lose them?

And who told you this is how it works?”