Back from a lengthy hiatus, I turn my attention today to the misapplication of the first amendment to the United States Constitution, which states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Groups like the ACLU fail to get it, year after year after year. Where in that sentence does it say that Christmas displays, or other displays of the Christian or any other faith, cannot appear on public property? The short answer is that the first amendment simply doesn't say such a thing.
The first amendment guarantees freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. The Constitution protects Americans from the establishment of a state religion, giving us the liberty to practice whatever religion we feel called to practice. Or to practice no religion, if we so choose. The Constitution does not guarantee that America will be a Godless, un-Christian nation.
Interestingly, the American Civil Liberties Union, which is decidedly un-American and which, in reality, seeks to abridge the civil liberties of all Americans, repeatedly seeks to use a protection guaranteed to the people against the very people it was meant to protect... those seeking the liberty to express their religious beliefs unmolested by the government.
Read this article about the ACLU's fight to keep Grace Church of the Nazarene from presenting its annual Christmas nativity display in Clarksville, Tennessee and see for yourself. It seems to me that the ACLU is attempting to "prohibit the free exercise" of religion, rather than to promote it as the protected civil liberty it actually is.
Interestingly, the American Civil Liberties Union, which is decidedly un-American and which, in reality, seeks to abridge the civil liberties of all Americans, repeatedly seeks to use a protection guaranteed to the people against the very people it was meant to protect... those seeking the liberty to express their religious beliefs unmolested by the government.
Read this article about the ACLU's fight to keep Grace Church of the Nazarene from presenting its annual Christmas nativity display in Clarksville, Tennessee and see for yourself. It seems to me that the ACLU is attempting to "prohibit the free exercise" of religion, rather than to promote it as the protected civil liberty it actually is.
[Disclaimer: No Aethiests were harmed in the writing of this article.]
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