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Posted on 01/15/2005 12:33:51 PM PST by BJungNan
Rewriting the First Amendment
by the ACLU
The ACLU's crusade against religion should be no secret to anyone. The organization is well know for its stand against any signs of religion in government buildings or practices.
But it seems when it comes the U.S. constitution, the ACLU has taken matters into it own hands, well, at least as it sites the first amendment on its web page section dealing with free speech.
Here is how the first amendment appears to the ACLU on its web site. (link Here)
"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."- as quoted by the ACLU
Something in the passage above is amiss, has been omitted, replaced with ( "...") in the ACLU's recitation of this important amendment. Have a look at the original wording of the first amendment below and see if you can see what the ACLU left out.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The ACLU has taken it upon itself to edit out all reference to religion in the first amendment, which by the way comes ahead of free speech.
We understand ACLU has its views on what the first amendment means and respect its free speech rights to debate it. That debate, however, ought to be legitimate. Altering the text of the first amendment to suits it ends is anything but legitimate. It's downright deceptive. Shame.
ACLU free speech page cached here.
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Here is the most interesting paragraph from ENGEL v. VITALE (my emphasis):
"The petitioners contend among other things that the state laws requiring or permitting use of the Regents' prayer must be struck down as a violation of the Establishment Clause because that prayer was composed by governmental officials as a part of a governmental program to further religious beliefs. For this reason, petitioners argue, the State's use of the Regents' prayer in its public school system breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State. We agree with that contention since we think that the constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of the American people to recite as a part of a religious program carried on by government."
See how "government.... composing official prayers" has been perverted by the athiests of the ACLU and their Democrat brethren into today's sick attack on the free expression of religious values and traditional American values in general?
Kids are being sent home from school for wearing crucifixes; honors graduates are being told they are not allowed to refer to their religion in their graduation speeches; teachers are warned to tread carefully when they get to that part of the Declaration of Independence where it refers to "our Creator". Etc.
It's sick.
The scumbags of the ACLU are domestic enemies of the United States who must be confronted and defeated.
I am in agreement about today's ACLU. However the smaller state chapters of yesteryear did do some good works. But none-the-less those days are over with and the Secularists have taken over the leadership of the current days ACLU. It seems the Devil has infiltrated the ACLU.
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Unbelievable. Although I shouldn't be shocked and sickened, I admit that I am. So the A(ll)C(riminals)L(ove)U(s) is now editing the Constitution. They are nothing more than hateful theophobes.
Jay, this might be a good thread to post some of your links.
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
The new head of the ACLU, (can't remember first name) Romero, is an admitted homosexual activist.
Does it live in SF ?
And what does that have to do with the organization they have become today. Of course, nothing.
There are lots of good movements that started out doing good things and turned out to be the worst imaginable scourge. Would anyone call those movements good today - or even risk mentioning that they had at one time done good.
The link is not working. Do you have another?
Don't think so; for some mysterious reason the name "Chicago" comes to mind. Or maybe NYC. Maybe an alert freeper will give us a clue.
Nah. They've always been what they are. The Scopes monkey trial was their first big hype job, and it set the playbook for their current methodology. They went looking for a lawsuit, and finally found a teacher who agreed to be the test case. They had to nag the state to get them to press charges (the state DID NOT want to press charges), and then acted like a bunch of religious bigots were stifling freedom of speech.
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Thanks for the link. Nice site. Nice to see this sort of thing out there. The ACLU is definately a movement that is dangerous. They have a right to exist but I would be real upset to find my tax dollars are funding their political activities.
I'll go back and look over the site more carefully but do you have any information on ACLU funding?
You're welcome. It's a good website.
What is there to do but await with bated breath.
I certainly am unable to hold my breath that long!
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