Posted on 02/01/2005 3:50:19 PM PST by stoney
Separation of ACLU and State
By Monty Rainey February 2, 2005
For over 150 years after the drafting of the First Amendment, only a select hand full of cases found their way before the Supreme Court. That all changed radically in 1947 with the the now infamous Everson v. Board of Education case in which Justice Hugo Black et. al. wrongly construed Thomas Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" metaphor and the Court offered its first ever comprehensive interpretation of the constitutional pronouncement on church-state relations. In Black's opinion, all of the privileges and immunities of of citizens recognized in the Bill of Rights became applicable to the states by dint of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Justice Black and the Court had no problem overlooking the Blaine Amendment of 1875 in which Representative James Blaine of Maine, at the behest of President Grant, submitted a resolution which would have made the First Amendment applicable to the states. Blaine's resolution was rejected by a Congress which included twenty-three members of the Thirty-ninth Congress who had adopted the Fourteenth Amendment only seven years earlier.
Nonetheless, by means of invoking judicial tyranny, the Court set in motion a chain of events which has spiraled into a quagmire of judicial usurpation, erosion of states rights, the de-Christianization of our society and a plethora of other ills which our Founder's certainly never envisioned nor intended. As this tyrannical snowball continued on its path, it picked up steam in many venues, including many unintended. For example, in 1976, a federal law was passed called the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act. The intention of this Act was to insure the poor would always have
(Excerpt) Read more at juntosociety.com ...
What this all amounts to is, you, the taxpayer, are footing the bill for the ACLU to travel the country in search of ridiculous lawsuits which are counter to the principles on which our nation was founded. Much like the tradition of the Communists to send a bill to the widow for the ammunition for her husband's firing squad.
Ping
Isn't it a vanity to post a link to an article hosted on your own site?
I really wish someone would admit that the famous Jefferson "Wall of Separation" quote was from a private letter to the "Danbury Baptists". It really had nothing at all to do with anything except Jefferson's own feelings.
Ping!
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 (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - 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
The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)
American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
It seems that's what the Bloggers forum is for.
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At any rate, it took 50 clicks to spam all the state topics with this non-local news. Admittedly, it seems there needs to be some guidance on the Topics page to tell posters that's what they're for.
Did you write this? Great job if so. I like how you used the word "quagmire". That has become a popular word in recent times.
I really wish someone would admit that the famous Jefferson "Wall of Separation" quote was from a private letter to the "Danbury Baptists". It really had nothing at all to do with anything except Jefferson's own feelings.
Ok... I admit it. Really!
Yes, "quagmire" seemed appropriate, given the words' recent popularity.
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