 Something to keep in mind on the 4th of July. As we gather this week to celebrate America's 248th birthday, a vigorous debate is swirling over both the country's future as well as its past, right back to the Declaration of Independence that was adopted on July 4th, 1776. Clergymen are urging people to remember that the document's most famous line, we hold these truths to be self-evident, establishes that all the rights the founding fathers sought to ensure were first established by God.