Posted on 11/18/2009 2:18:21 PM PST by surroundedinCT
Enfield (WTNH) - The ACLU of Connecticut is warning the Enfield school board to stop holding graduation ceremonies at a Bloomfield megachurch, claiming the graduates and their families are unconstitutionally being subjected to religious messages.
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The ACLU is crapping on everyone's leg with this.
Oh yes. Any good American; anyone with a brain thinks the same way towards the ACLU. They are a scourge on the American landscape.
Making the kids go to a church would be a clear violation of the 1A. More accurately, making them go to church services would be a violation. For their purposes this is just another building.
So what's the problem? That they may see religious symbols or messages? You can get that on the billboards on the way to a field trip. Do field trips now violate the 1A?
Besides, megachurches are basically just big businesses anyway. IMHO, there's not much really religious about them.
It looks like congressmen voting on a proposal in the house, and then sending it over to the senate for debate where it is voted on there as well. Then, once both house and senate have voted in favor of the proposal, the affirmed bill is sent to the president for his signature (or veto). Once the president signs it, then voila, you have an official established religion. Depending on the implementing legislation, other religions would lose their tax exempt status, or their property confiscated, etc.
It doesn't remotely resemble a high school using a church facility to hold its graduation ceremony.
I bet that nearly all the ACLU members have been exposed to religion in their life times. Either their parents took them to church, or they prayed in school. And, instead of being indoctrinated by the Christians, just the opposite seems to have happened. If Christianity didn’t hurt them, why do they insist it is corrupting our children? Who has actually been hurt by being subjected to the word, “Jesus”? And, why does God offend them, while giving a pass to someone yelling, Allah Akbar? There is no consistency with the ACLU, except that it’s consistently harassing Christians.
The Gov't takes your tax money, and gives it to a particular denomination. The church clergy are Gov't employees, with full benefits, and the property the church sits on belongs to the state. The state then dictates the message set forth by that church.
If the school took public cash (from the Fed) then they made a deal with the devil. Unless of course it was state cash and the state has no such restriction.
I was talking with my ten year old about the ACLU a couple of weeks back. I said they defended ONE persons “right” to not be offended over a cross but then they defend one person’s “right” to do something that offends a whole town.
I told her about the naked pumpkin run where the ACLU sued a town so that a group of people could run naked on Halloween with a carved out pumpkin on their head.
My daughter said “Mom, why would anyone want to run through town naked” and I said “yeah really and with a pumpkin on their head?” To which she replied “If you had to run naked through town wouldn’t you want a pumpkin on your head”. She has a VERY good point!
“That would be between the students and the school.”
So if 51% of the students were Muslim and 49% Christian, you’d be okay with holding it in a Mosque? You know, if that was what was worked out between the students and the school?
For interference with we the people worshiping the way we see fit!
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