Smashing the ACLU
I hate the American Civil Liberities Union (”ACLU”). It is an anti-American organization, full of socialists, liberal elites, militant gays, and moral relativists. The ACLU is beloved by the main-stream media hacks, who laboriously seek their comments like the leprechan looking for the pot-o’-gold at the end of the rainbow.
The ACLU disguises its anarchial scheme of dethroning traditional, American values (e.g., freedom of religion, marriage) by projecting a hardy defense of our Constitution. Rightank will critically analyze the ACLU’s mission over the next two weeks, prong by prong.
The first prong of the ACLU’s mission is to “protect and preserve”:
“Your First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly. Freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state.”
In order to carefully analyze this statement, it is helpful to read the text of the First Amendment in its entiriety:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It is interesting to note, first off how the ACLU separates the enumerated rights, as it is naive to believe that the ordering of the rights is grammarical happenstance. First off, in the Amendment religion is listed first wheras the ACLU joyfully puts it last. Second, the ACLU creates a ideolgical chasm between the rights. The ACLU appears to fully support the rights of free speech, peaceful assembly/assocation, and press. However, the ACLU qualifies the right of freedom of religion, stating that they support that only when viewed as a “strict separation of church and state.” Hmmm . . . I don’t see that anywhere in the First Amendment.
The ACLU interprets the Establishment Clause “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” as requiring this strict separation of church and state. Why? The answer is two-fold:
- They rely on the U.S. Supreme Court’s illogical 1947 decision in Everson v. Board of Education that the Establishment Clause “intended to erect a wall of separation between Church and State” (quotations omitted).
- They do not want freedom of religion, rather freedom from religion (translate: Christian religion).
Recent activity of the ACLU demostrates their antagonism for Christianity. The ACLU has fought several times in federal and state courts to strip courtrooms and civic buildings of Ten Commandments displays, school vouchers programs that allow parents to send their children to religious schools with public funds, and traditional government symbols of religious expression of faith in God, such as the Pledge of Allegiance.
Currently, Congress is working on a bill that would prohibit the federal courts from hearing any case or claim that would prevent the Pledge of Allegiance from being recited in our schools. The ACLU’s letter protesting this bill is a perfect example of the ACLU’s bigoted approach to the Establishment Clause. It calls such a measure by Congress “extreme,” and that it would endanger the rights of religious minorities (who cares about the majority).
The fact is that a majority of this country is Christian, and our nation is a Christian nation. It is founded upon Judeo-Christian principles (e.g., the Bible) and a deep faith in God–which abhors the ACLU. The ACLU is simply more concerned about gutting religious expression from public and civic life (maintaining the strict separation) rather than upholding the American religious symbols and expressions that the Founders of our Nation intended the First Amendment to safeguard . . . And their mission statement and actions prove it.