American Civil Liberties UnionAmong the ACLU's repertoire of victories are cases involving the defense of Communists, anarchists, Ku Klux Klansmen, and those who sought to overthrow American government. More recently, the ACLU attacked the city of Redlands, California for displaying a small cross in their city's seal. Unable to face the well-funded and well-staffed ACLU, the debt ridden city was forced to cower as the pack of ACLU lawyers mounted. Nearby, Los Angeles County was also under attack for a similar display of the city's heritage. Why is it that the ACLU attacks a small cross, nestled below the larger and more visible Greek goddess of vegetation on the Los Angeles seal?
From its inception, the ACLU has worked to create a new America. To do so, the ACLU found it necessary to achieve two main things: first, the abolishment of Constitutional barriers to governmental power and second, the enervation of man's soul to make him weak and dependent on government. Both of which move America towards a progressive state and, according to Dr. Krannawitter, are advanced by "removing God from the American mind."
In order for the ACLU to tear down constitutional barriers to governmental power, they must extinguish America's fundamental belief in God, since such a belief is an essential denial of the supreme power of government. Rights come from God, not government. When God's presence in the American mindset ceases, however, people no longer look to God as the grantor of rights but to government. Thus, the ACLU argues that the more power the government has, the better off the people under it are. If one looks at the history of the Soviet Union and any other Communist country, one will be apt to find Communist leaders who predicated their form of government on atheism and a secular state religion. This sort of anti-religious atmosphere precludes the existence of any rights beyond that which the government has granted.
In addition to the emphasis on the source of rights and governmental power, the ACLU has worked to make people needy and dependent on government. Alexis de Tocqueville warned of those like the ACLU who wished to exacerbate the malignant tendencies of democracy. He explained that the government, if people allow it to do so, will create an incessant dependency of the people on the government as it expands its power under the guise of utility, finally reducing "each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd." The ACLU seeks not only to create a people that are dependent and needy, but also a government that "little by little extinguishes their spirits and enervates their souls" by giving them all they want, so that they will be naively content without hopes, dreams, or a will of their own. This is a sort of despotism unlike any other.
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http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/morrell/040904Christianity's double standardIn no case are the left's efforts to undermine our society more apparent than in the debate over the separation of church and state. The intent of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment is quite clear: The government of the United States will not establish an official state religion or inhibit the free practice of any faith. While government may not work to influence or regulate the values and beliefs of citizens or their churches, there is no inhibition whatsoever on these same citizens and churches from working to influence their government through the democratic process. In effect, the First Amendment and Establishment Clause are the embodiment of the entire spirit of the Constitution: Government is subservient to the will of the people, and the people have the right to seek to influence and form their government according to their own standards so long as they do not restrain others from holding or practicing differing ideas.
It is amazing how far America has strayed from these simple truths. Now, instead of people of faith being protected by the government, they are victimized by a liberal controlled activist judiciary. Led by the ACLU, American liberals are pushing an agenda of forced inclusion of alternative faiths and lifestyles into school curricula under the euphemism of "diversity," while at the same time working to deny the same rights to Christians whose views are decried as "intolerance." In the ACLU's version of the world, it is acceptable for a kindergarten girl to be pulled from the cafeteria and threatened with expulsion for saying grace over her afternoon cookies and milk, but protecting a high school student's right to wear a "Satan's Church" T-shirt is worthy of a lawsuit in Federal Court. In Louisiana, the ACLU feels that the state abstinence web site should be shut down because a few students mentioned "God" in the site's unregulated chat room, but efforts by California schools to indoctrinate students in to the precepts of Islam, complete with assuming a Moslem name and staging their own "jihad" via a type of dice game, are praised as models of sensitivity. It is obvious that the ACLU and liberal court system's goal is not to keep the American classroom a secular arena free of religious biases, but to systematically undermine the American system of values through excluding Judeo-Christian beliefs and attempting to supplant them with a cadre of alternative beliefs of their own choosing.
The assault on Christianity goes far beyond the classroom. Today, liberals actively seek to oppress local churches' freedom of speech through an arbitrary and inconsistent tax code. For example, churches are no longer churches, but IRS 501(c)(3) organizations. Since few churches could survive under the tax burden imposed on Americans today, houses of worship can no longer be concerned about merely saving the souls and acting as the moral compass of their brethren, but maintaining their tax exempt status. As outlined in IRS Publication 1828, churches are prohibited from "endorsing any candidates, making donations to their campaigns, engaging in fund-raising, distributing statements, or becoming involved in any other activities that may be beneficial or detrimental to any candidate. Even activities that encourage people to vote for or against a particular candidate on the basis of nonpartisan criteria violate the political campaign prohibition of section 501(c)(3)." In effect, our churches as no longer free to address the issues of the day from their own moral and ethical viewpoints, but must submit to government mandated censorship or face financial ruin. While "secularist" organizations are free to promote political candidates under the full protection of the First Amendment, religious groups who attempt to do the same contend with paying a free speech tax.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/darr/041215Here are some more links.
Liberalism's ultimate goal: the destruction of Christianity through Social Securityhttp://www.renewamerica.us/columns/darr/050620Keeping the faith -- at arm's lengthhttp://www.renewamerica.us/columns/darr/050220Judge: Remove Bible From Court Display
ERASING CHRISTIANITY
http://www.silverback.org/links/articlesbytopic/assaultonchrist.htmThese should get you started.
Bob
Malachi 2:16"I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
