What Is Behind The "Hate Christians" Campaign?
By Thomas D. Segel (12/22/04)
Christ and the Faith have been under attack for the past 2000 years. The attempts at destruction started with His birth and have escalated across the globe for centuries. In the United States the Anti-Christian movement has now reached the point where those who keep religion as the focal point of their lives can no longer dismiss the actions of a hate-filled leftist movement.
At the center of the attack on the Judeo-Christian heritage of America is the ACLU, which has been appropriately renamed by the Traditional Values Coalition, the “Anti-Christian Liberties Union”. This organization, professing to be dedicated to protecting the freedom of all Americans, is relentlessly on the attack against anything and everything the nation considers as fundamental values.
Most Americans are not even aware of the ACLU’s radical left birth and its dedication to following a communist-socialist agenda for the past 85 years. The ACLU was created at a unique gathering held in 1919 by an activist socialist named Roger Baldwin. Others of socialist-communist leaning assisted him with input at this assembly. Some participating were Elizabeth Gurley, later to become the head of the Communist Party, USA. Also at the event were the Soviet intelligence agent Agnes Smedley and Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas.
From the beginning, Roger Baldwin instructed those involved in the ACLU movement to make sure it always looked like a very patriotic organization. He instructed them to…”steer away from making it look like a socialist enterprise. We want to look like patriots in every thing we do. We want to get a lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make the country and show that we are really folks that stand by the spirit of our institutions.”
The organization then went on the attack and started its legacy of defending abortionists, pornographers, child molesters and attempting to dismantle the nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage.
By 1931 the Special House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities stated, “The American Civil Liberties Union is closely affiliated with the communist movement in the United States, and fully 90% of its efforts are on behalf of communists who have come into conflict with the law. It claims to stand for free speech, free press, and free assembly, but it is quite apparent that the main function of the ACLU is an attempt to protect the communists …” The committee also reported …”since its beginnings, the ACLU has waged war against Christianity…”
The greatest impact of this hate organization has been since the ill-fated court case of 1947 when the term “separation of church and state” emerged as a legal mantra of the left. Even today, countless Americans, including our elected officials, believe that statement is based upon the constitution, when in fact; there is no such constitutional mandate.
Currently the ACLU is waging a frontal attack on the public display of Christian symbols. In Los Angeles County it panicked officials into recommending the removal of a small cross on the county seal. The ACLU won the removal of a cross from a World War I memorial to fallen servicemen. It has caused to removal of the 10 Commandments from public property across the United States. Twenty-Four lawsuits have been filed against the display of the 10 Commandments and more are being filed every month. ACLU suits have been brought against the Boy Scouts because the group has a religious foundation. The newest target is to remove any symbol of Christianity from official city, county, state or national seals. Most observers of ACLU litigation believe that in the very near future suits will be brought against cities such as Corpus Christi, Texas and Los Angeles, California to change their names to something void of religious meaning.
Any examination of the ACLU would be incomplete without reference to its agenda to degrade moral values. This is done through defensive of Gay and Lesbian objectives. It has defended pornography as a freedom of speech issue and even opposes filtering systems on the computers of public libraries. The ACLU is defending the North American Man-Boy Love Association for its role in promoting the sexual abuse of children. It supports and defends homosexual adoption, legalization of homosexual marriage and pro homosexual recruitment programs in public schools. All of these activities are designed to accelerate the moral degradation of the country.
There are ways to slow down, if not seriously impede ACLU activities, if the American public will develop enough backbone to take action. Though it claims to take no government funding, there is reason to believe the ACLU still receives funds from federal, state and local governments. Citizen organizations should examine their public expenditures and demand cessation wherever such payments are discovered.
These fundings of ACLU activities usually come about at times when it is threatening litigation over some perceived wrong. There are now opposing groups recommending suits be filed against any government body authorizing taxpayer support of this so-called civil liberties organization.
Congress could also bring about marked change in the way litigation is filed against municipalities and government agencies. It would need to change the civil-rights statue, which permits the ACLU to collect attorney fees from the very governments it takes to court.
The usual routine is for the ACLU to claim a municipality violates the Establishment Clause with some form of Christian display. If the local government loses the case, taxpayers are hit with the costs and public dollars go directly into the pockets of the ACLU. By Congress changing the law so the Establishment clause does not apply, the ACLU would lose millions of taxpayer dollars.
The civil rights statute also allows anyone to file suit if they perceive they have been “wronged”. This brings about numerous suits of little or no merit. By requiring those who file litigation to show they have been personally harmed would reduce such suits markedly.
Another way to slow down this Anti-Christian activity would be to publicly identify those organizations and foundations, which provide funding. Records and reports of such financial activities must be made available to the public. Most foundations, organizations, unions and individuals, regardless of their political leanings, do not want their names linked to anything that could prove to be a public embarrassment.
Organizations such as the Horizons Fund of California, the Tides Foundation, the Gill Foundation of Colorado, the Arcus Foundation of Michigan and nationally known Ford and Rockefeller Foundations have all very quietly made generous contributions to the ACLU.
However, in recent weeks the American Civil Liberties Union was forced to reject $1.5 million from both the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations because it refused to ensure that “none of the money would go to underwriting terrorism or other unacceptable activities a threat to civil liberties.”
The ACLU also had to withdraw from a major federal charity drive and give up an estimated $500,000, because it refused to agree to “not knowingly hire anyone on terrorism watch lists.”
There are indications of a citizen backlash forming. We have an organization, which is the champion of everything repugnant, and we have a government fearful of litigation. The public does not like this and seems at a point where it wants to take action. Many think it is about time the American people started making some demands of their own…like forcing our government to take action in support of America instead of the ACLU!
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