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Posted on 12/17/2004 12:05:32 PM PST by kattracks
Americans who hold to traditional values are expressing outrage this Christmas over the enemies of this country's Judeo-Christian heritage, who seek to completely expunge any vestige of that heritage from their midst.
Almost everywhere they look, believers are confronted with the legal actions of zealous individuals who display outright hostility towards Biblical symbols of the Christmas season, while simultaneously encouraging every possible alternative, whether secular or otherwise.
At the heart of the controversy is the American Civil Liberties Union.
By its actions of recent years, the ACLU has proven that it not only knows how to use the law as a weapon to destroy freedom, but that it obsessively endeavors to do so. Recent experience also shows that in those cases where its goals aren't supported by the law, fear and intimidation will suffice.
This is why the ACLU continues to threaten school districts and other municipalities with legal retribution over issues such as student-led Bible studies on public property, despite legal precedent that favors the rights of students to engage in such activity.
For far too long, the ACLU has gotten away with its iron-fisted tactics on the absurd notion that it is upholding the "Establishment Clause" of the First Amendment. But contrary to the ACLU's present day assertions, America's founders never intended that clause as a license to expunge every vestige of religious thought from public life.
The real intention of "Establishment Clause" was simply to guarantee that the Congress could not legally compel citizens to subscribe to a particular religious or philosophical doctrine.
The notion that the founders might have been worried by the possibility of anyone "taking offense" at religious teachings or symbols is nothing more than a modern-day fabrication.
But, having successfully constructed just such a caricature of the Establishment Clause, the ACLU now claims responsibility for ensuring that certain individuals and groups go through life in America without ever being "offended."
And since every conceivable action holds the potential to "offend" somebody, a decision must be made as to which actions do and don't constitute legitimate cases of "offense." Of course, the ACLU presumes itself to be the absolute arbiter of such questions.
Meanwhile, the apostles of "political correctness" diligently spread their religion by way of "sensitivity training" sessions, where subjects are mentally bludgeoned into compliance. These sessions take place at government institutions, from the highest cabinet-level offices to the tiniest rural school districts.
But rather than decry these "tent revivals" of the counterculture, the ACLU supports them, and in some cases, demands that they be conducted.
While proper codes of conduct have always been a fitting part of any reasonable working environment, "sensitivity training" is clearly intended to accomplish far more.
Ultimately, its goal is nothing less than to instill an immutable structure of ideas into its participants. Though an absolute affront to anything traditionally regarded as "religious," it promotes a mindset that is every bit as foundational to the counterculture as the Bible is to believing Christians.
In the public arena, these tactics are justified as a desperate defense against the "dangers" of an America eventually ruled by omnipotent Bible-believing dictators. Yet, in the meantime, it is the ACLU that is amassing and increasingly wielding just such power, aided and abetted by the collusion of activist courts and the extra-constitutional decisions they now willingly hand down.
The real danger to America's future does not emanate from a display of the Christ Child on the courthouse lawn anymore than it does from the verses of a Christmas Carol. Rather, it is present in any governing entity that presumes the authority to control thought.
A government that will forcibly eradicate any particular creed is one that will just as forcibly supplant that creed with one of its own.
(Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and has been active in local and state politics for many years.)
Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
Tar and Feathers, Ridden out of town on a rail? The history of the US and what was done to scam artist, flimflam artist, trouble makers and scumbags!!
This is precisely what the ACLU is all about.
Maybe someone should do a freedom of information on the ACLU and find out how much of our tax money is being given to them. I would bet that it is the major source of their finances.
ACLU delenda est!
I don't want to destroy Carthage in particular......anyway, Cato was a jerk...In this day and age, he'd be leading the hard core guys over at DU....
My first reaction is that you're probably right.
Then I consider that the ACLU is not part of the government. And they are getting public money though a loophole put in by Congress. They should be answerable to the tax payers for that money and how much they get. Just the fight to find out could be the pressure Congress needs to get rid of that loophole that feeds them so well.
And maybe with a refund to boot!
George Soros has given some four million bucks to the ACLU in recent years. Gee...I wonder why.
--A furious, loud, rejection by America of the ACLU is close.--
I am ready see all that happen...and ready to be part of the loudness!
Glenn Beck reported that the Richmond VA boy scout troop that was selling their popcorn on (I think) Tuesday outside the local ACLU office collected over $ 28,000 (and still counting) in sales, much from people who were more interested in making a statement of support to the Boy Scouts in front of the ACLU than a desire for their popcorn. Pretty great stuff!
Other than from Soros, I don't know where their money comes from. But one thing is obvious. They have no shortage of it.
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