Posted on 12/11/2005 6:31:06 PM PST by Jay777
The American Civil Liberties Union is an active defender of the religious freedoms guaranteed in the constitution, and is often the target of conservative ire over the issue.
This week, Fran Quigley, head of the ACLU in Indiana, hit back with an editorial entitled: "How the ACLU didn't steal Christmas."
He said the group was being demonised by well-organised "extremists" whose real agenda was to crush religious diversity, "and make a few bucks in the process".
"Nowhere in the Sermon on the Mount did Jesus Christ ask that we celebrate his birth with narrow-mindedness and intolerance, especially for those who are already marginalised and persecuted," he wrote.
He said the ACLU's mission for justice saw it work hard to protect the rights of free religious expression for all people, including Christians.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Look at the pot calling the kettle black.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This group just started on December 3, 2004 and are looking for new members to their yahoo group
My Personal Anti-ACLU Blog (Check it out and leave a comment!)
When will they finally just come out and say 'terrorist sleeping cells'?
Our lives are well-organized, and we are extremely good people.
Yeah, they're all for defending religious liberty. They merely want to destroy every vestige of America's religious heritage in the process.
I just love these people. They make the argument that such a campaign does not exist, then proceed to prove that it not only exists but that they have a hand in it.
They're totally blind to it, too.
"...with an editorial entitled: "How the ACLU didn't steal Christmas.""
Now someone sounds guilty.
"Who me???"
Somebody been hittin' the "happy smoke" again.
Egads, hard to get past the first sentence. No bias as the BBC, no-sir-ee...
Words fail me.
We Christians are just waking up at long last. The ACLU will be tossed on the ashheap of history, just as their parent organization, the Communist Party, has been in the former Soviet Union. With 90% of the nation's wealth held by Christians, there is a huge elephant in the room, if it decides to act as an elephant, that is.
Bill Frist should impose a rule that having had membership in the ACLU disqualifies you for appointment to the federal judiciary.
Allowing someone to kill us through there religion is not defending religious freedoms.
They're being marginalized? Well, whoever is in charge of marginalizing them ought to be fired, because for a group of people that is so marginalized, we've been hearing an awful lot about them. This is almost as good as the libs saying how they're being "censored". There sure seems to be plenty of anti-Bush sentiment in the media last I checked!
I won't even get into the persecution bit, purely because it is laughable and I would probably end up writing something deemed too offensive for FR. Suffice it to say, I haven't seen any burnings at the stake held in my neck of the woods.
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