Saturday, October 18, 2003

THE WAR ON CHRISTIANITY

David Limbaugh writes (Excerpts):

“A taxpayer-funded charter school in California that will stress values-oriented teaching about animal rights has been approved. A California church group upset with the promotion of a “Traditional Marriage Week” has called for a “Marriage Equality Week” to promote same-sex “marriage.” And, a highly decorated army general, Jerry Boykin, is castigated as a Holy Warrior because he had the audacity openly to declare his faith in the God of the Bible.

The pledge [of allegiance] case illustrates that certain groups in our society want to treat Christianity and references to the Christian God as a contagious disease, an unborn virus. If not contained within the four walls of our private homes, it will infect the population with an incurable affliction.

Those of you who think the Judge Roy Moore Ten Commandments flap in Alabama was some isolated sideshow are woefully misguided. Those of you who think that courageous Christians like Moore are the ones picking this fight by waiving the Bible in our faces apparently aren’t aware of the city by city, county by county, state by state crusade the ACLU is on to eradicate Ten Commandments displays from all public buildings.

This secularist obsession to achieve a strict separation of church and state is not only not mandated by the Constitution, it is at war with the Constitution’s very designs about religious freedom. In the name of promoting religious liberty, the enemies of Christianity are using the First Amendment Establishment Clause as a weapon to suppress Christian religious freedom.

No student is being forced to say the Pledge, much less the words “under God.” This isn’t a case of the government imposing Christian values on vulnerable children. This is not about separation, but about a small intolerant minority forcing its will on a heretofore passive and non-combative majority.

If the secularists were truly sincere about their affinity for the phantom principle of “separation of church and state,” they would be having seizures over this government-funded charter school imposing its values on school children. They would object to the education establishment’s emphasis on social engineering over academic achievement. They would go berserk over the schools’ speech and conduct codes disguised as anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies.”

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