Stop the ACLU Blogburst - Open Forum Debate
This week for our blogburst the topic was left open to our discretion as to what to write about. Rather than making a feeble effort myself, I am posting in it's entirety an article written by Lee Ellis who is a retired journalist and a former vice president of both CBS and Gannet. He resides in Indio, California, where he write op-eds that appear in several local newspapers.
This is an open forum topic - feel free to comment on the article (no anonymous comments though) your take on it.
(I would like to thank Gribbit for bringing this article to my attention and now yours!).
This is an open forum topic - feel free to comment on the article (no anonymous comments though) your take on it.
(I would like to thank Gribbit for bringing this article to my attention and now yours!).
Freedom of Religion in America: Adieu!
Written by Lee Ellis
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
A few days ago, the majority of the Supreme Court ruled as if it were using the Constitution of France instead of the Constitution of the USA. The French Constitution states that its nation is a secular one, while our Constitution states that we are a nation under God. One would not know this if the majority of the Supreme Court today is to be believed
Mark Levin states in his book, Men in Black, Chief Justice William Rehnquist has written that the Court bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life. Based on a misreading of Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Court has propounded and expanded the concept of a wall of separation between church and state.
The framers of the Constitution wanted to ensure that all Americans could worship freely, without religious persecution. So they prohibited the federal government from establishing a religion and equally prohibiting it from interfering with the people's free expression of their religion.
States, however, were permitted to have established churches (the Puritans were the officially established church in Massachusetts.). Even two of the most secular framers, Madison and Jefferson, appreciated the role of religion in the public life of the United States. Jefferson himself wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that our liberty is not endowed by states or governments, but by God.
President George Washington established Thanksgiving Day as a day of prayer to God. And it was not until 1897 that the Congress decided to stop appropriating money for education at religious schools.
In that now-famous letter, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists that the U.S. legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free exercise of, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. Interestingly, a mere two days after writing this letter, Jefferson participated in church services held in the House of Representatives.
Yet liberal judges have seized on this image of a wall of separation, and are waging a war on religious freedom in our country.
Now the Socialist movement, the ACLU, and other liberal organizations (some with Mom and Apple Pie names to fool its readers, its fiscal donators and the country) have been partly successful in its efforts to drive the Judeo-Christian religion out America. The secularists have not failed in making most of Europe and Canada almost wholly secular and they are working hard to do this to America.
How?
They have crammed our courts with liberal legislative judges as replacements for Constitutional judges, and now their representatives in Congress have filibustered to keep President Bush from appointing a majority of Constitutional federal judges. Finally, the ACLU has tried to eliminate any mention of GOD from all public places. I don't think that the word, God is a symbol of any one particular denomination or denotes any one specific religion, do you? So why do they act as if it does?
Apparently, the ACLU has forgotten that the founders were only afraid of a federally-owned religion ruled by a King or a President, not by free religious bodies governed by themselves.
In addition, the secularists have convinced enough people that they cannot offend any minority; they must all be politically correct. They accuse the majority of trampling on minority rights. What about the rights of the religious majority? Is not the minority trampling on those? Do the atheists not offend those who believe in God when they try to eliminate Judeo-Christian religious symbols from all public arenas?
One of the most important causes for the Bush Administration and American voters is to get Congress to accept only Federal judges who believe in and will rule upon and in light of what is actually written in the Constitution of America, not that of France, nor any other document, nor of a personal letter written by an individual whether he is Thomas Jefferson or not.
The ONLY way this will happen is if you elect a STRONG majority of conservatives to Congress in 2006 and 2008!
Fail this and bid welcome to a godless nation. Or prepare to bid Adieu (literally and ironically, to God) to any semblance of freedom of (not from) religion in America
(End of post)
My thanks to Lee for sharing his thoughts as a former media insider as to what is really happening in our country today. It is obvious that he has "liberated" himself from the liberal media twist on reality that we are so innundated with today.
You can stop the ACLU's insiduous brainwashing of the people of this nation by learning more at Stop the ACLU. Join us in fighting the continued demise of religion, morality, and patriotism that the ACLU promotes.
Mark Levin states in his book, Men in Black, Chief Justice William Rehnquist has written that the Court bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life. Based on a misreading of Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Court has propounded and expanded the concept of a wall of separation between church and state.
The framers of the Constitution wanted to ensure that all Americans could worship freely, without religious persecution. So they prohibited the federal government from establishing a religion and equally prohibiting it from interfering with the people's free expression of their religion.
States, however, were permitted to have established churches (the Puritans were the officially established church in Massachusetts.). Even two of the most secular framers, Madison and Jefferson, appreciated the role of religion in the public life of the United States. Jefferson himself wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that our liberty is not endowed by states or governments, but by God.
President George Washington established Thanksgiving Day as a day of prayer to God. And it was not until 1897 that the Congress decided to stop appropriating money for education at religious schools.
In that now-famous letter, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists that the U.S. legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free exercise of, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. Interestingly, a mere two days after writing this letter, Jefferson participated in church services held in the House of Representatives.
Yet liberal judges have seized on this image of a wall of separation, and are waging a war on religious freedom in our country.
Now the Socialist movement, the ACLU, and other liberal organizations (some with Mom and Apple Pie names to fool its readers, its fiscal donators and the country) have been partly successful in its efforts to drive the Judeo-Christian religion out America. The secularists have not failed in making most of Europe and Canada almost wholly secular and they are working hard to do this to America.
How?
They have crammed our courts with liberal legislative judges as replacements for Constitutional judges, and now their representatives in Congress have filibustered to keep President Bush from appointing a majority of Constitutional federal judges. Finally, the ACLU has tried to eliminate any mention of GOD from all public places. I don't think that the word, God is a symbol of any one particular denomination or denotes any one specific religion, do you? So why do they act as if it does?
Apparently, the ACLU has forgotten that the founders were only afraid of a federally-owned religion ruled by a King or a President, not by free religious bodies governed by themselves.
In addition, the secularists have convinced enough people that they cannot offend any minority; they must all be politically correct. They accuse the majority of trampling on minority rights. What about the rights of the religious majority? Is not the minority trampling on those? Do the atheists not offend those who believe in God when they try to eliminate Judeo-Christian religious symbols from all public arenas?
One of the most important causes for the Bush Administration and American voters is to get Congress to accept only Federal judges who believe in and will rule upon and in light of what is actually written in the Constitution of America, not that of France, nor any other document, nor of a personal letter written by an individual whether he is Thomas Jefferson or not.
The ONLY way this will happen is if you elect a STRONG majority of conservatives to Congress in 2006 and 2008!
Fail this and bid welcome to a godless nation. Or prepare to bid Adieu (literally and ironically, to God) to any semblance of freedom of (not from) religion in America
(End of post)
My thanks to Lee for sharing his thoughts as a former media insider as to what is really happening in our country today. It is obvious that he has "liberated" himself from the liberal media twist on reality that we are so innundated with today.
You can stop the ACLU's insiduous brainwashing of the people of this nation by learning more at Stop the ACLU. Join us in fighting the continued demise of religion, morality, and patriotism that the ACLU promotes.
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