Lets See The ACLU Remove These Crosses From Federal Property!
Posted on 01/18/2005 12:14:00 PM PST by bigsky
For years now, conservatives have repeatedly shouted their frustrations with attempts by many on the Left to remove God from our society.
Liberals love to tout a "wall of separation between church and state" that is somehow constitutional. But as Michael Tremoglie pointed out in his HUMAN EVENTS Online piece ("Theophobia -- Part I") Friday:
"However, there is no such Constitutional doctrine. The phrase, 'wall between church and state,' was used by Thomas Jefferson -- who was not involved with writing the Constitution. Jefferson wrote this in a letter. How his personal correspondence became Constitutional law is not known. If Jefferson's correspondence is a precept of Constitutional law then segregation should be Constitutional as well. Jefferson wrote in an 1814 letter to Edward Coles that, 'Their (blacks) amalgamation with any other color produces a degradation to which no lover of his country . . . can innocently consent.'"
But now, at least in the case of the ACLU, the reason has been made clear: the ACLU uses a different Constitution than the rest of America.
Last Tuesday, the Opinion Journal's James Taranto, in his daily "Best of the Web," cited the following passage from the ACLU's "Free Speech" page:
See those ellipses in the ACLU's quotation of the 1st Amendment? Do you know what portion of the Amendment the ACLU "censored"?
Here's the 1st Amendment in its entirety:
Instead, the organization found a handy-dandy version that supports its claim that the Framers considered the freedom of speech so important that they put it at the very tip-top of the Bill of Rights.
If the ACLU (and its constitutional editors) had any integrity at all, it would tout the importance of the freedom of religion, since, in copies of the Constitution that everyone else has, religion is listed first. But I doubt that such a move will ever happen, considering how much the ACLU must focus on the sanctity of speech in order to protect pornographers, flag-burners, and strippers. Of course, the only reason free speech is listed first in the ACLU's copy is that it cut out all the constitutional "God-talk" of our supposedly atheist, deist, irreligious Founders.
Surely, though, an organization like the ACLU -- one that loves to defend the constitutional rights of "all" Americans and claims to stand up for religious liberty -- believes in the Freedom of Religion as stated in the 1st Amendment, right?
Well, on the ACLU's "Religious Liberty" page the group fails to quote the Constitution at all. Instead it refers to "the establishment clause" that "requires the separation of church and state."
I suppose, though, if the ACLU did quote the Constitution, it would have to explain how the organization gets around the fact that the government "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Since prohibiting the free exercise of religion is something at which it excels, the ACLU doesn't want to be painted into that corner.
No liberals want that.
The ACLU's Very Own U.N. Country
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
Bump for reference.
The reason the ACLU is so paranoid about separation of church and state is that liberal dogma, first and foremost is based on control by the liberal power structure - the Democrats and their bureaucracy, the media, and the intelligentsia - over the masses, and the introduction of any Higher Authority poses a threat against their power structure. All the "legal" excuses they give are merely a cover for the real reason for their hostility to all things religious.
BTTT!
I hope that no one is suggesting that all those bright folk at the ACLU is engaging in dishonesty or sophistry by either editing or omitting whole prases in the COnstitution to warp its meaning into a predetermined direction?
< /humor >
Forwarded this article to a few others as well...the ACLU has definitely gone too far recently!!
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