[djreece]

Consort, on one level, I understand what you are saying when you say "we" allowed it to happen. But on another level, you are very wrong. Over and over again, actions by the ACLU prove very unpopular in polls. The majority of Americans don't WANT public expression of religion shut down. Until recently, many believed they had no choice. The courts had spoken; the matter was settled. With recent overreaching by the Supreme Court and other courts, many Americans are waking up to the fact that the judicial branch has usurped far more power than the Constitution allows, and "we" will move to remind them of their proper role and place.

As for "we" electing leftists who appoint liberal activist judges, the problem is worse than that. Even judges appointed by conservatives have participated in this newfound "divine right of rule" by judges.

[DPB101]

Only recently has the ACLU stepped into purging the public square of religion in a big way. The crucial cases were won by Leo Pfeffer, lead lawyer for the American Jewish Congress. In the 1960s, Pfeffer boasted that his court wins had created a "triumph" of "secular humanism" in America and his group's absolutist position on separation of church and state had become the "law of the land."

Americans United for Separation of Church and State is another group which has been in the battle. It was organized in the 1940s by Klu Klan Klan members who feared a Catholic take-over of America.

The ACLU merely is the Marxist wing of the drive to push religion off the stage.

All three groups are, however, now intertwined. One or the other is used depending on how members think an attack will play with the general public. They fear a backlash.