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ACLUs Hypocritical Approach To Church And State
by Jay on 03-30-06 @ 11:10 pm Filed under ACLU, Church And State, War On Terror, News
Liberals proudly beam about how the ACLU keeps America safe from becoming a theocracy by dilegently keeping church and state seperated through endless lawsuits. I dont believe that the founders of our country meant for the First Amendment to be bent to the shape the ACLU has put it into, but there is definitely a line between religion and the government that needs to be drawn.
In Bridgeport West Virginia, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer has asked a West Virginia high school to remove a picture of Jesus Christ that has hung at the school for 40 years. I wont argue argue against the point that a highschool is really not an appropriate place for the picture, and Ill even concede that the ACLU will probably win this case, but it most definitely is not a threat. And when voluntary acedemic classes on the Bible are offered at a school, you can bet the ACLU will be keeping a watchful eye. While I have my apprehensions with the ACLU on this , no one wants our children to be indoctrinated.
While there are grey areas, where we can all debate these controversial issues, there should not be a double standard. When it comes to Christianity in the public schools, the ACLUs outcry can be heard the loudest. When it is Islam in the public schools, the ACLUs silence speaks volumes.
According to the Thomas More Law Center, for three weeks, impressionable 12-year-old students were, among other things, placed into Islamic city groups; took Islamic names; wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name and the star and crescent moon; handed materials that instructed them to Remember Allah always so that you may prosper; completed the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting; and memorized and recited the Bismillah or In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, which students also wrote on banners hung on the classroom walls.
Students also played jihad games during the course, which was part of the schools world history and geography program.
The ACLU were completely silent on this one. This isnt suprising, since a alleged senior terrorist operative, Abdurahman Alamoudi helped the ACLU write their religion-in-the-classroom guidelines.
In 2004, the ACLU won a hard fought lawsuit to remove a cross from the Mohave Desert public preserve.
In the case, Peter Eliasberg, an attorney at the ACLU stated, The federal government should not offer public land owned collectively by people of every faith and of no faith as a site for the advertisement and promotion of Jesus Christ, Buddha, Pope John Paul II, or any other particular religious figure. Contrary to what some believe, it is not the role of the federal government to advance Christianity or any other sectarian belief. He further stated, The courts have consistently held that a permanent religious fixture on federal land is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
However, it looks like the ACLU may be eating those words when the religion is Islam....(much more at site)
