[jonatron]

for educational purposes

[BADROTOFINGER]

Posted yesterday...JFK

[FreedomCalls]

They are still not correct. What is the First Amendment today was "Amendment, the Third" in the original document as presented to Congress. The original first was never ratified. It dealt with limiting the number of total Congressmen. What was then the second is now the twenty-seventh as it finally finished the ratification process in 1992.

So we can conclude that the original founding fathers did not place any special significance to anything being in the first amendment simply because it was the first, since it wasn't the first, it was actually the third. Does that make sense?

[26lemoncharlie]

The ACLU still doesn't mention the freedom of religion in its quotation of the first part of the Bill of Rights, but at least the site isn't utterly wrong.

Call this one a win for the good guys -- the ACLU may still be the Leftist organization it has come to be known as, but at least it has been forced to stop this specific distortion of the Bill of Rights.

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If you are referring to the Constitution of the United States, which states that our unalienable rights come from GOD! the ACLU is WRONG!! You must understand that the ACLU is NOT using the Constitution of the United States though. They are using the European Constitution, which has no reference to GOD! It states that the peoples rights come from the Government!! How Convienient of them to just change our Constitution!! Why not though? NO ONE HAS QUESTIONED THEM YET!!

The Hate Crimes Laws are nothing more than the implementation of the Values set forth in the European Socialist Manefesto. They undermine our Gurantee of Freedom of Speech by the Constitution. The Hate Crimes were put into law to do just that. We have the right to Hate just as we have the right to Love. The Constitution of the United States is slowly but surely being replaced with the Socialist Version of the European Constitution, read it for yourself:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318061/posts?page=6#6
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318038/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318034/posts
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=954
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254190/posts

[BJungNan]

You can see the original text at this link. Rewriting the First Amendment by the ACLU

Site has a link to the page archive they way it was before the ACLU got caught and changed their page.

[Southack]

You need to see this one.

[Celtman]

According to the Wayback Machine, the first (incorrect) version appeared by 10/15/2002 and was still there on 2/2/2004

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Will no one rid us of this treasonous, anti-Christian group? Will no politician find the guts to repeal that pesky clause in the Civil Rights Bill that allows lawyers to collect fees for their subterfuge?

[risk]

In the ACLU's 1st Amendment quotation, the freedom of religion is erased, replaced with ellipses.

On the left, we have outright rewriting of the text. On the right, we have certain people saying the unabridged text means in clear language that government officials are free to declare official preference for particular religious beliefs.

Both are revisionist, depending on the state; but most (if not all) American states have constitutions that place limits on express government support for religious beliefs. It does just so happen that Alabama's constitution prohibits state preference for any particular religion.

The biggest threat to American liberty today isn't just secular humanism. It's revisionism on all sides. The law is written in plain enough English if we would just read it. And it doesn't always license government to conduct its business according to our preferences. In fact, America's highest law is about stripping government of all but the most essential powers.

[piasa]

fyi

[wildbill]

Just sent a copy of the article to a friend who is VP of the Texas ACLU.

[Jay777]

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