Appreciate the sentiment, but it is correct: rights do come from law. Now, … you can choose God’s Law or man’s laws but “rights” come from the law. No person can perfectly follow any sufficiently structured set of laws. Ergo, government can take away rights at any time for any stupid pretext to stop “lawbreakers”.

This is an offensive truth, but it is true. What will blow your mind, should you choose to accept it, is how Jesus Christ fulfills God’s Law perfectly while simultaneously releasing us all who are given His Baptism into Him from the ultimate penalty for our inability to keep His Law. This too will become offensive to you after some time of pondering its reality, but it is also true.

Living with these tensions is not easy, but it is better than the alternatives.