The Intolerance of the ACLU
Posted on March 28, 2006
Today’s reading assignment is at BP News written by Alan Sears
Like many civic assemblies, Oconee County, S.C., has opened council meetings with an invocation. Council member and pastor Bill Rinehart closed a meeting in October of last year with prayer by saying, “We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.”
What Rinehart didn’t know was that members of the American Civil Liberties Union “search out and censor corps” were sitting in the audience anonymously, waiting to pounce on the slightest expression of personal faith.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution clearly states that government cannot prohibit the free exercise of religion. But despite this guarantee, a deeply intolerant ACLU is driven to expel religious expression from the public square.
Oconee County was one of three South Carolina councils sent threatening letters by ACLU attorneys around that time last year. The leftist organization was emboldened by a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision which declared that no specific deity could be mentioned in an opening prayer.
In that case, Wiccan “high priestess” Darla Kaye Wynne was offended that a Great Falls, S.C., town council invocation mentioned Jesus. Demanding the tolerance to her religion that she wouldn’t afford to others, Wynne fought the council. And won.
Not only did the ruling force Great Falls council members to censor their religious expression, the “priestess” also extracted nearly $60,000 in attorneys’ fees from the town and its taxpayers. The victory is somewhat hollow, however, in that a very similar ruling from a different circuit court recently upheld a Virginia county board of supervisors’ decision to exclude a Wiccan from the list of religious leaders available to provide invocations at its public meetings.
The president of the Oconee area’s local ACLU chapter, Mike Cubelo, stated, “You would think council members, public servants, should respect people who do not have the same faith.” Too bad Cubelo doesn’t practice what he preaches.
Writing for the left-wing website The Common Voice, Cubelo penned a shockingly intolerant article titled “A Bullet Memo to the Right.” In it, Cubelo wrote, “To Bob Jones, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson: Kneel down, shut up, and pray in a church closet somewhere. We’ll come and get you when we need a [J]esus jihad.”
The ACLU chapter president continued the mockery: “To the Moral Value Morons: Why couldn’t you just stay home and pray for a W victory instead of actually voting? Don’t you have faith in God’s Will?”
Despite the ACLU’s claims of fighting for religious liberty, Cubelo’s ugly ridicule more accurately displays how the ACLU and their allies view traditional religious beliefs. And South Carolina isn’t the only place they are trying to censor prayer.
Read the whole thing.
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The ACLU chapter president continued the mockery: “To the Moral Value Morons: Why couldn’t you just stay home and pray for a W victory instead of actually voting? Don’t you have faith in God’s Will?”
Wow… imagine if he were to direct that at non-Christians. He’d be tarred and feathered. Plus, he’s insulting a religion that he clearly doesn’t understand.