SB420 would have prohibited a city, village, town, or county from enacting a "rights of nature ordinance."
The Assembly passed SB420 on February 19, 2026, by a vote of 54 to 41, prior to it being vetoed by the Governor. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this legislation preempts political subdivisions from declaring that plants and animals have constitutionally protected "rights." Treating plants and animals as equivalent to people, who are made in the image of God, is not simply silly—it is a blatant attack on both God and man. The "rights of nature" movement changes the "self-evident" truth of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" into a lie, and worships and serves the creation instead of the "Creator." The American Founders understood that "rights" come from God, not government; and that only people have "rights," not "nature." They acknowledged the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," but distinguished the law of nature and the law of God, who is over nature. Accepting God's creation mandate (Genesis 1:26-28), the Founders knew that man's duty to obey God and take dominion over the Earth is what gives rise to "rights" among men. Since God alone is sovereign, they recognized that "rights" pertain to the exercise of self-government under God. Wisconsin lawmakers must likewise assert our God-given rights and reject the false religion of the "rights of nature" enviro-extremists, whose power-hungry globalist priests are devoted to implementing the United Nations' Agenda 2030.
