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So, is it your point that the intentions of the Founders wanted posterity to know that our inalienable rights are the gift of the creator? Is that what you're wanting us to believe?

That is precisely what they wanted us to know, and it's not just what I want you to believe. It's what Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the DoI himself, affirmed. See previous quote - earlier in this thread.

My claim is that--no matter where the inalienable rights come from--the Founders believed they exist in all human beings as an occurrence in the natural state sans society.

The Founders believed that we all have natural, unalienable rights because they come from GOD and NOT the state. That is what they believed, Pink, and the historical record bears me out.

And, further, that it is necessary to form a government for the purposes of securing them, that is, in the sense of protecting the individual's equality--the weak with the strong--in the presence of the law to practice their inalienable rights.

The Founders believed that government's duty was to protect or to "secure" the natural, unalienable rights of all peoples. They didn't believe we could or should guarantee "equality" per se, because there would be different levels of achievement. Equal opportunity and equal rights, yes. Equal outcomes...NO.