The Tolerant ACLU
Posted on February 8, 2007
I was in South Carolina earlier this week visiting my in-laws and was able to see the ACLU in all its glory, intimidating a rural county in the Palmetto State into submission by forcing it to deep-six its long and cherished tradition of opening county council meetings with an invocation. A single dimwitted, self-described atheist (not even a resident of the county) and ACLU member, with the support of the local ACLU chapter silenced the entire community of Oconee County.
Their position had nothing to do with the vindication of any constitutional principles. Just hatred. Said atheist Michael Deanhardt:
“Respecting the worth and dignity of every person takes precedence over blind-faith doctrines,” said ACLU member spokesman Michael Deanhardt, who describes himself as an atheist. “There are only human solutions to human problems, no supernatural solutions.”
I almost had this soundbite memorized by the end of the day as this mouth-breather repeated it at least a half-dozen times before, during and after the council meeting.
Again, there was no constitutional principle at stake. Prayer has opened public proceedings since before the republic was even founded. The first official act of the First Continental Congress was a call to prayer Sept. 6, 1774. Benjamin Franklin requested that the Constitutional Convention be blessed by prayer June 28, 1787. Are we to believe that the very men who authored, debated and ratified the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights were ignorant of what this document required regarding prayer? Does anyone believe that the ACLU and Michael Deanhardt know better than the Founders?
After witnessing the extreme cultural acquisitiveness of the ACLU right smack in the heart of Red State America, I decided to look a little deeper into what drives the ACLU of South Carolina. I think I found all I needed from one Mike Cubelo, president of the board of the Piedmont, SC chapter. The words of their leader in South Carolina follow.
The Common Voice (Nov. 26, 2004): A Bullet Memo to the Right
This is a response to a “memo to the left” floating around the Internet::
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 jesus jihad.
To John Ashcroft: Thanks for allowing security to pat down passengers’ breasts at airports while protecting the breasts of statues in government lobbies. You can now go join the rest of your jesus jihad peers in a church closet.
To Tom DeLay: The law does apply to you even in Texas. Indictment is too good for you unless it sticks you in prison with a few Ashcroft detainees still waiting for their constitutional rights to visit. These detainees may want to practice a few terrorist techniques on you in the bunk bed.
To Arnold: Lose the accent. Wipe the girly-man Austrian grin from your face and sound like an American. The Greatest Generation defeated Austrian accents a long time ago.
To Giuliani: Go back to the comb over and your first wife if you want to win the GOP nomination for prez. GOP conservatives admire the illusions of the sanctimony of marriage and of hair on bald men. Gaining a few pounds won’t hurt either.
To Laura Bush: Wipe the smile and make-up off your face. Are you afraid of looking like Barbara Bush? Is W too Oedipal for you?
To Barbara Bush: Parachute out of the plane with George next time. He can ride your cushiony butt down to the ground instead of risking another soldier’s life. Soldiers are getting scarce these days.
To O’Reilly: Consider doing your show over your cell phone. It may finally be worth listening to although your wife may disagree.
To NASCAR: Go drive unarmored Humvees towards a checkered flag somewhere in Falluja.
To Cheney: Walk your gay daughter down the aisle in the Chapel of Bob Jones University and see how your pacemaker handles the reaction. You will not be greeted with flowers and celebration as you predicted for our troops in Iraq. Be ready for a church insurgency.
To the National Guard: How does it feel to be draftees? It’s an experience your prez and v.p. have avoided.
To Condi: You have more trouble finding a guy than you have finding Osama. Well, the hair and the teeth may be the obvious answers but even Karl Rove found someone. US Senator Lindsey Graham is available although he may not be exactly interested if you know what I mean.
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?
To Colin Powell: You should know by now that playing the good soldier to a fool commander can get you killed or greatly embarrassed at the UN.
To the Bush Daughters: Stop playing your dad in doublemint twin drag during his formative drunken days.
To Rush: You have proven that drugs can fight obesity although divorce is a side affect. Faith with prescription drugs ain’t bad either.
To Rumsfeld: You are an American WMD that should be housed in Abu Graib.
To Zell: The Reagan strain of Alzheimer’s got you good. Maybe the Georgia GOP will now name a few buildings and the Atlanta airport after you.
To W: Congrats! You are a role model to those who are inarticulate, incompetent, drunk, and bigoted. You have proven that they too can someday be president as long as they are rich, related to an ex-president, and believe in the baby jesus.
Does anyone really believe that the ACLU’s actions in South Carolina are driven by a love for the constitution? No, it’s vicious bigotry. This was one of their state leaders speaking, folks. He wrote it, they own it.
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That’s insane.
Can his authorship of that be verified? It almost sounds too loony to be real.
All true!
Poor things…hurting about Oconee…keep praying but not at council meetings!
Off-topic, but Happy second blogiversary.
Someday, I’ll be two, too. I don’t recall if I’ve ever ended a sentence like that before.
The Establishment clause seems very clear to me — government, municipal through national, is prohibited from officially endorsing any religion or religious viewpoint. That would make illegal any denominational prayer or invocation uttered at a government event. That the Founders violated their own rule is no justification for subsequent error. Or am I missing something?
Dimwitted? Pot, meet black kettle.
Next it will be putting all the non leftist in concentration camps “for the common good” or some bull**** like that.
First as an athiest (keep reading I havn’t said anything arrogant, hateful, or self-absorbed yet) I would like to appoligize for all those antichristian godhating nutcase athiest bigots out there. Sadly they are all too common, like the dimwit above me. If you havn’t guessed, no I’m not one of them, I really don’t like them. Their statements, aside from their intrinsic absurdity unfortunatly reflect on me also (an attempt at leftist “multicultural” homogenization?). For the record, there are at least a few atheists out there who arn’t hate filled scum. While I may not share your beliefs in god, I do think that this country could use a few more christian values at it’s core.
One more thing, to all those “self described” (cough pedantic) athiests out there: Atheism IS a religion, please return to reality
“A single dimwitted, self-described atheist”
Atheists are often subject to personal abuse and threats from those who cantot bear to have their superstitions and religious delusions challenged. Can you see what your religion has done to you. It has made you narrow, bigotted and threatening.
Are you stupid or just delusional? The only people threatening atheists these days are the wing nuts, the people trying to highjack our soldiers’ funerals, and their like. That said, even those people are no worse then the hardlining commies on the far left, or bigots such as yourself.
“superstitions and religious delusions”
Oh please, so not only do you have a major tolerance problem (like radical islam maybe?), and are projecting that problem onto others, but you are completely devoid of all intellectual honesty. I may share a lack of belief in god with you but at least I’m honest about it. I certainly can’t prove or disprove god’s existance, neither can you, no one can. Any assertions about god are ultimately a matter of faith. I can accept that. Most people can, largly because most people don’t suffer from cluster B personality disorders. Your religious beliefs have left you the narrow, bigotted and threatening ones, unable to live with other ideas except to tear them down (again, not at all unlike radical islam). Regardless of what reality you choose to dwell in, both the people of this site as well as most christians worldwide are some of the most tolerant people that you will ever find who have not abdicated all moral convictions.