The Political Correctness Police
Posted on October 24, 2005
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As hard as it tries the ACLU can not deny America’s strong heritage of religion. This is the reason it tries to censor it, or twist statements of the Founding Fathers in an attempt to erase and rewrite American history. Many on the left will argue that America is not a “Christian Nation”, but it is very difficult to deny that America was founded on faith-based values and that many, if not most, of our founders had a very deep faith.
Consider this. The ACLU sued and successfully halted cadets at the Virginia Military Institute from having mealtime prayers. Would the ACLU have sued George Washington when he issued orders to teh Continental Army that “the Colonels or commanding officers of each regiment are directed to procure Chaplains accordingly; persons of good characters and exemplary lives.”?
As difficult as it is to deny and erase our religious history, the ACLU will try, and too often they succeed. And they will seek out the smallest signs of religion they can. Most often the pinpoint Christian symbols, and ignore pagan ones.
Here is a well written piece on this topic. Its titled, How Many ACLU Lawyers Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? I wonder if we were to google ACLU and pinheads, how many results that would get? Hmmm..only 773? As many times as O’Reilly has called them this one, you would think it would have more results.
The “tiny cross” people at the American Civil Liberties Union are at it again. These are the folks with extra-keen eyes and powerful magnifying glasses who examine the official seals of towns and counties, looking for miniature crosses that ACLU lawyers like to trumpet as grave threats to separation of church and state.
This time around, the folks with the magnifying glasses are leaning on the village of Tijeras, N.M., whose seal contains a conquistador’s helmet and sword, a scroll, a desert plant, a fairly large religious symbol (the Native American zia) and a quite small Christian cross. “Tiny cross” inspectors are not permitted to fret about large non-Christian religious symbols, only undersized Christian ones, so the ACLU filed suit to get the cross removed.
The cross is obviously not an endorsement of religion, any more than the conquistador helmet and sword are endorsements of Spanish warfare. The courts have ruled, not always consistently, that crosses, as historical references in such seals and logos, are permissible. But the ACLU, these days, is strongly committed to seeing church-state crises everywhere, and thus pushes things way too far.
Last year the ACLU demanded that Los Angeles County eliminate from its seal a microscopic cross representing the missions that settled the state of California. Under threat of expensive litigation, the county complied. The cross was about one-sixth the size of a not-very-big image of a cow tucked away on the lower right segment of the seal, and maybe a hundredth of the size of a pagan god (Pomona, goddess of fruit) who dominated the seal. Pomona survived the religious purge. She is not the sort of god that the ACLU worries about, whereas the flyspeck-sized cross was a threat to unravel separation of church and state, as we know it. What will happen if the ACLU learns that Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Sacramento, San Francisco, St. Louis and Corpus Christi actually have religious names? We shudder to think.
The campaign to remove all traces of religion from public institutions, and in fact from the entire public square, is now far advanced. Part of that extremist campaign is to squelch private expression in and around public schools. Students have been punished for reading the Bible outside of class, for assembling after school to talk about religion, for thanking God or Jesus in a valedictory speech, and for bowing their heads (and therefore presumed to be praying privately) before lunch.
Another fairly common school crisis comes when a class is asked to write an essay or draw a picture of someone they regard as a hero. Mao Tse-tung or Vlad the Impaler will bring no rebuke, but if the hero is Jesus or Moses, watch out.
Last week the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York accepted the case of Antonio Peck, who, as a kindergartner in 1999, had his drawing censored from a class wall display because of church-state concerns. Along with the rest of his class, Antonio was told to draw a picture to illustrate his understanding of the environment. He drew a man with upraised arms, wearing a robe. When asked, the boy said the man was Jesus, who was “the only way to save the world.” The trial will decide whether the school was guilty of viewpoint censorship.Source
Where the ACLU lead, it seems many of the left want to go. Take this little sample from the Huffington Post.
George W. Bush is the most powerful man alive. He is a class A imbecile. He is far less intelligent than the average Christian. But like most of the others, he believes Jesus died for his sins. That idea is so perverse and devoid of logic it should shock the conscience. Instead, it gets him elected, and earns him the reverence of a great percentage of America. America! The most advanced country in the world — run by a bunch of villagers who still believe Santa Claus is going to save them.
There is no (censored) Easter Bunny. There is no Jesus waiting to return. Moses never even existed. These were all convenient lies from the men of those times to gain power. Their actions were rational — they wanted to deceive their brethren so that they could amass power. I get their motivations. But I cannot, for the life of me, understand our motivations, thousands of years later, still following the conmen of yesteryear into our gory, bloody, violent end.
If you want to read more of this vomit, go see Right on the Right, I won’t give them a link from here.
This is the kind of venom the far left have towards religion. At least this guy was honest about it. The ACLU masquerades like they are protecting religious liberty, when most often they are busy censoring it. Christmas is just around the corner folks. This is the ACLU’s favorite season to censor religious expression. We want to counter this. Please share your ideas with us on how to go about this. We have discussed corner banners, or nativity scenes to put on each blog to show our support of religious expression and to send a message to the ACLU. Some think we should organize a group to go the main ACLU offices and sign Christmas Carols. Share your ideas with us folks.
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How about an autographed, Christmas-giftwrapped copy of ACLU vs America, complete with a Christmas card attached saying “Jesus loves you!”?
You do realize that the ACLU does defend religion as well?
http://www.stcynic.com/blog/archives/2005/06/aclu_defends_re.php
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/125225.htm
http://arborupdate.com/article/959/aclu-defends-churches-in-ypsi
And here is a few more
1. Aug. 8, 2005 PORTALES, NM — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today announced that it has succeeded in freeing street preacher Shawn Miller from the Roosevelt County jail. Miller was arrested last April after Portales police claimed he was yelling at passing cars, although Miller maintains he was merely preaching the word of God.
2. June 1, 2005 PHILADELPHIA — In Pennsylvania s first court interpretation of the state s Religious Freedom Protection Act, a city judge has ruled that a devout Muslim firefighter who refuses to shave his beard on religious grounds cannot be fired while his legal case continues.
3. December 22, 2004: ACLU of New Jersey successfully defends right of religious expression by jurors.
4. November 20, 2004: ACLU of Nevada supports free speech rights of evangelists to preach on the sidewalks of the strip in Las Vegas.
5. November 9, 2004: ACLU of Nevada defends a Mormon student who was suspended after wearing a T-shirt with a religious message to school.
6. August 11, 2004: ACLU of Nebraska defends church facing eviction by the city of Lincoln.
7. July 10, 2004: Indiana Civil Liberties Union defends the rights of a Baptist minister to preach his message on public streets.
8. June 9, 2004: ACLU of Nebraska files a lawsuit on behalf of a Muslim woman barred from a public pool because she refused to wear a swimsuit.
9. June 3, 2004: Under pressure from the ACLU of Virginia, officials agree not to prohibit baptisms on public property in Falmouth Waterside Park in Stafford County.
10. May 11, 2004: After ACLU of Michigan intervened on behalf of a Christian Valedictorian, a public high school agrees to stop censoring religious yearbook entries.
11. March 25, 2004: ACLU of Washington defends an Evangelical minister’s right to preach on sidewalks.
12. February 21, 2003: ACLU of Massachusetts defends students punished for distributing candy canes with religious messages.
13. October 28, 2002: ACLU of Pennsylvania files discrimination lawsuit over denial of zoning permit for African American Baptist church.
14. July 11, 2002: ACLU supports right of Iowa students to distribute Christian literature at school.
15. April 17, 2002: In a victory for the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the ACLU of Virginia, a federal judge strikes down a provision of the Virginia Constitution that bans religious organizations from incorporating.
16. January 18, 2002: ACLU defends Christian church’s right to run anti-Santa ads in Boston subways.
Well that is very nice, thank you for sharing that list. I see that the majority were Muslims, or street preachers bugging people. A few legit cases in there too. The point is that they seek to censor religion, Christianity especially, more often.
Reading that Huffington Post entry really made my blood boil. These elitists think that they’re so much better than we are. They feel that they’ve found the “Kabbala” Buddhist post modern epipheny, and all the rest of us are bumbling idiots who ride around all day in our tractors eating grass. They think anybody who still believes in religion must be some uneducated brain washed fool. I’m Jewish. I may not believe in Jesus, but I believe in morality, and I believe in the excellent Judeo-Chrsitian ideals that this country was founded upon. They separate us from the dictatorial animals that seek to take over the world. They worship men like Stalin. A communist who killed over 60 million people and doomed many more millions to live the rest of their lives in Siberian winters. I am an educated religious woman. I do not follow G-d because I “can’t think for myself”. I believe that religion is logical and rational. There are many more educated people that think the way I do. Would they dare to call Albert Einstein a stupid uneducated man? This same man who said, “The more I learn about science, the more I believe in G-d”.
The day religion is taken out of all aspects of our public life, as the ACLU wants, is the day this proud country will turn into dust. But, that’s just my eneducated, country bumpkin opinion. Oh yeah, and I do come from a “fly over” state.
-OC
I can’t believe the ACLU actually defends religion. They even defended the religious freedoms of Jerry Falwell!
Why does the ACLU hate America!?
Jay,
What are you talking about? Please back up your statement: “I see that the majority were Muslims, or street preachers bugging people.”
There are 16 legal cases pointed out there where the ACLU protected religious expression. Here is a breakdown by topic:
Street Preachers (who you don’t like): 3
Muslims: 2
Christians excluding street preachers: 11
My favorite part is the left-wing screed posted at the bottom of the blog entry to fire up people against the ACLU. As if there is no right-wing screed out there…
“Tiny cross people!” I love that one.
Tiny cross people, that is, who have tiny hearts, as well — pea-sized hearts and huge bank accounts.
Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11: Written during the Administration of George Washington and signed into law by John Adams.
“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
Yea, based upon christianity… Right.
No one said it was based on Christian religion. It is however based on Christian moral philosphy.