Your problem is not with me, but with the founding fathers and the Declaration, and their specific citement of a Creator -- as opposed to a nation or ruler -- as the arbiter of human worth.
The problem with this argument is that the Founding Fathers made a secular appeal to "the Creator" when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, as the concept itself arose out of the secular Enlightenment and secular Enlightenment religion, which we refer to as "deism" today. Do take notice that they did not use "God," but "the Creator," which was a deist-specific term in the 18th century. Deists sharply differed from traditional Christians in that they generally did not believe in either the Trinity, the divinity of Jesus, miracles, or the inerrancy of scriptures, but who did believe in one god. Thus, when they make the ambiguous appeal to "the Creator," they likely did not refer to the Christian God or any deity, in particular. It was an appeal to whomever or whatever created us, and that our dignity is innate, rather than granted by fellow mankind.
Deism largely fell out of favor in the late 19th century, due to the writings of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Charles Darwin, which cast doubt on the philosophical notions of "first cause" and "argument from design" (not to be confused with the Christianist "intelligent design"), thus shoving most potential deists into modern agnosticism or atheism. Thus, we have the polarized religious climate we see today since the time of Darwin, which means that it is expected that you
must be either a fundamentalist conservative Evangelical Christian that thinks Jesus rode a dinosaur, or a fervent atheist that hates all mention of religion in society.
Going back to the idea that we have inherent and inalienable human rights that transcend government, that, in itself, is a secular idea, as conventional Christianity, at that time, had a strong authoritarian and imperialist streak behind it. Instead, we can credit the philosophy of John Locke, who had a pronounced influence on the Enlightenment and our Founding Fathers, thus leaving an indelible mark all over the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Our nation would not exist at all, in its current state, without John Locke, and we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to him.