ACLU: Anti-Religion or Anti-Christian?

ACLU: Anti-Religion or Anti-Christian?

When can a faith based organization get involved in the public school? If you ask the ACLU, that answer would be never.

This from UPI:

In legal papers, the ACLU says Lakeview Elementary School in Mount Juliet also marked National Day of Prayer by getting students to design posters and pick prayer buddies, and gave stickers that said “I prayed” to those who participated, the Nashville Tennessean reported. Non-praying students were left feeling “disfavored and isolated,” the suit said.

The ACLU filed its suit representing the parents of a boy who attended kindergarten at the school last year. The group says the school not only endorses Christianity but a particular variety of Christianity.

According to the Lakeview Elementary webpage, this group is a parent organized and driven initiative. The meetings of this group do not appear on the school calendar, and the group claims no association with any specific group or religion. So what is the issue?

Is the ACLU, as they say, protecting freedom of religion or pursuing an anti-Christian agenda? I cannot see how limited any expression of religion is “protecting freedom of religion” it seems a cross purposes to me.

We are all well aware of the many examples of the ACLU blocking the public expression of Christianity, the removal of Christian Symbols from our state seals, courthouses and schools. Not getting as much press is the flip side, when the ACLU supported non-Christian religious expression. Here are just a few:

1. In July 2000 the ACLU supported a movement to remove a schoolboard ban on Wiccan religious expression.
2. In June 2002 the N. Carolina ACLU went to court to support the mandatory reading by UNC freshmen a pro-Islam book and portions of the Quran. Can you imagine the response if UNC had assigned students readings form the Old Testament?
3. In July 2005 the ACLU, who had been fighting to remove the tax exempt status of Christian Churches comes out in support of such status for Satanic Churches.
4. In August 2006 the ACLU supported the rights of a Wiccan Priestess to pay at Richmond Public Board Meetings.
5. Earlier this week the ACLU fought to force the federal government to allow Wiccan Religious symbols on headstones in federal cemetaries.

There are plenty more examples easily found at the search engine of your choice. ACLU Hypocrisy at its finest.

This paints a clear picture of the intent of the ACLU. It is not about freedom of religion or the separation of Church and State – it is about freedom from Christianity or anything close to it.

The ACLU has been against Christianity from the beginning as it is the single biggest and most vocal threat to everything the ACLU believes in; from abortion, to homosexuality, to limitless sexual deviancy.

This attack by the ACLU is the clearest sign that the Praying Parents at Lakeview School are doing the right thing. I hope this attention will only strengthen there resolve, and call more people to there group.

I, for one, will be praying for them.