American Legion and ADF to ACLU, FFRF, AU, American Atheists and friends: Step away from the war memorials
Posted on May 22, 2007
About time someone goes on offense.
CNS News: Christians, Veterans Team Up to Protect Religious Memorials
The nation’s largest veterans’ service organization is teaming up with two Christian legal groups in an effort aimed at protecting Christian-themed war memorials from lawsuits that would remove them from public property.
The American Legion is asking its members to contribute to a catalog of war memorials that feature crosses and other religious symbols. The group will monitor its database of memorials and will notify the Alliance Defense Fund and the Liberty Legal Institute of any attempts by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and similar groups to challenge their constitutionality.
The effort stems from recent attempts by the ACLU to have crosses removed from memorials in Mt. Soledad, Calif., and in the Mojave Desert.
On the ACLU’s Docket of Depravity, these attacks are second in loathesomeness only to the ACLU’s vigorous defense of child molesters who want to hang out in parks to fantasize about toddlers, child porn consumers and child-rape how-to guide authors. Thanks to the Legion and ADF for drawing the line in the sand.
Thanks also to Annie Laurie Gaylor who unwittingly affirms the importance of the joint project by admitting that she is all too ready to bulldoze any veterans’ memorial that happen to “offend” her:
” I would not jump into the fray until we see what happens with these other cases [Mt. Soledad and Mojave Desert],” Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, said, adding that “the ACLU might feel the same way: Let’s wait and see.”
A spokesman for the ACLU did not respond to requests for comment Friday. [Glib Note: Shocking!]
“There isn’t a way to address all of them,” Gaylor told Cybercast News Service. “You have to take these violations one case at a time, and we are facing a very hostile Supreme Court.
“If it wasn’t the current court, I would have no concern that this could possibly be upheld,” she said, “but with this new court, we don’t know how they’re behaving, but they seem to be behaving very badly on separation of church and state.”
Gaylor called the land-transfer attempts to protect the two crosses “despicable” and criticized Congress for getting involved in local cases.
“They have gone out of their way in Congress getting into the act. It’s just been a very sobering education about the lack of understanding of separation of church and state and the willingness to be manipulative and to try to subvert the First Amendment.”
She said war memorials that feature religious symbols are offensive and unconstitutional because “it isn’t the business of our secular government to have any opinion … on religion, much less plant crosses on the highest point in any city and put it as part of a government park.”
If there was “a way to address them all,” I’m sure she’d buy the wrecking ball and dismantle every memorial that carries any religious symbol. Echos of the Taliban demolishing those millennium-old Buddhist statues…
No one is dishonored or “excluded” (and no one’s “rights” have been violated) when fallen American heroes are remembered by a cross or a Bible verse or a Star of David or whatever religious symbol those who dedicate the monument choose to include. The ultimate sacrifice and the men themselves are dishonored by the radical secularists who have no love or understanding of the US Constitution (I’d say a large proportion of them despise this country) and who campaign through the courts to erase even small remembrances of the bravest citizens who died for the very freedoms these extremists abuse.
Check out this video: “What About Arlington”
The ACLU has picked the wrong fight this time. God Bless The American Legion, ADF and especially those Greatest Americans whose memory these two organizations have come out strong to defend.
ArrMatey at Court Zero covers an absurd result of ACLU litigation against the harmless Mojave Cross: The Forbidden Mojave Desert Cross
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“I’d say a large proportion of them despise this country”
And each day they tear away at its foundations a little more, having proven that their efforts have taken them toward achieving their agenda of destroying this nation.
Matthew 11:12-13 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force, for all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Making a decision to commit our lives to Christ Jesus, takes unwavering faith and courage. We as the follows of Jesus Christ must take up our cross and follow Him daily. This takes determination and endurance because of the growing opposition that is being heaped on the believers of Christ Jesus.
We must boldly confront these issues, one by one until those who oppose the will of God give up and give in to His will for this planet. It was always intended by God that we take dominion of this earth. We must do this in unity. We can not face the enemy in the final act of God’s will standing un-unified. We must stand together and take back what God intends for us to have.
John the Baptist boldly took on and confronted sin and pointed people to God. We must do no less… Just as the days of John the Baptist, this generation must stand against that which is in the opposite view of what we believe. Jesus condemned this type of attitude that opposed God’s will. The folks in those days were cynical and skeptical because Jesus challenged their comfort ability and their secure and self centered lives.
To often we justify our inconsistencies because listening and obeying God’s Word, may require us to change our way of thinking from man’s view to God’s view.
Jesus was the visible of the invisible God and we here now who have taken up His cross, must be the visible as well. Our light must shine bright for all the world to see. We must stand united, one nation under God and not divided. Until we come to gather in unity, Jesus is not glorified. The world hates us because we do not belong to this world, just as Jesus did not belong to this world.
We can listen in on a conversation between Jesus and God in John 17. The particular part of the conversation that should eve’s drop in on, is in verse 21. Jesus said these words: “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.â€
Jesus prayed that we would all become one just as Jesus and His Father were one and that the world would know that we as a collective body of believers were one in unison with God the Father and God the Son, so that the world would believe that God had sent Him. Let’s get unified behind these issues and stand up for Jesus and our Kingdom, so that He can return and be crowned King.
If the ACLU and other related organizations get their way, then anything related to God or the Bible will be abolished. Not only will religious symbols be banned from public property, religious sayings such as “God Bless” and even “Merry Christmas” will eventually become illegal/unconstitutional to just whisper. The word “God” will be abolished that is written on money, and written in the Constitution and Bill of Rights itself (or “God-given rights”).
Thank you guys for your hard work, one day I hope I might be working alongside you guys.
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We need for that “hostile” SCOTUS to once and for all
declare that “separation of church and state” appears nowhere
in the US Constitution nor in any other laws of this land.
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