THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 266, December 21, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE ACLU STEALS MUCH MORE THAN CHRISTMAS
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE COUNTERCULTURE VERSUS TRADITIONAL RELIGION & ITS SYMBOLS -- THE CULTURAL WAR THAT IS BEING WAGED
AGAINST AMERICA'S JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE BY GROUPS SEEKING TO COMPLETELY EXPUNGE ANY VESTIGE OF THAT
HERITAGE FROM OUR MIDST: LEGAL ACTIONS BROUGHT INTO THE COURTS BY THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION &
OTHER LEFTWING ORGANIZATIONS OPPOSING ANY PUBLIC DISPLAY OF BIBLICAL SYMBOLS OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON
FULL STORY:
Americans who hold to traditional values are expressing outrage this Christmas over the blatant double standards with which the
enemies of this country’s Judeo-Christian heritage seek to completely expunge any vestige of it from their midst.
Almost everywhere they look, true believers are confronted with legal actions of zealous individuals in authority positions, displaying
outright hostility towards Biblical symbols of the Christmas season, while simultaneously encouraging every possible alternative,
whether secular or otherwise.
The very manner in which traditional America now seeks to defend itself, not on the basis that these actions, which result from a
grotesque distortion of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, but rather on grounds that Nativity Scenes ought to
at least be allowed equal billing with Frosty and Rudolph and that Silent Night should be as permissible as Jingle Bells, gives clear
indication as to just how advanced this malignancy is, and how much lost ground needs to be retaken.
But, while these situations are indeed cause for concern, a far greater double standard, and therefore a far greater danger, exists. At
the heart of this controversy is the organization known as the “American Civil Liberties Union,” or ACLU.
By its actions of recent years, the ACLU has inarguably proven that it not only knows how to use the law as a weapon with which to
destroy freedom, but that it obsessively endeavors to do so. Recent experience also shows that, in those cases where its goals aren’t
supported by the law, fear and intimidation will apparently suffice.
This is why the ACLU continues to threaten school districts, municipalities, and other public entities with legal retribution over such
issues as student-led Bible studies on public property, despite legal precedent that is inarguably in favor of the inherent rights of
students to engage in such activity.
For far too long, the ACLU has gotten away with its iron-fisted tactics on the absurd notion that it is upholding the “Establishment
Clause” of the First Amendment. But, contrary to the present day assertions of the ACLU, America’s Founders never intended that
passage as a license to expunge every vestige of religious thought from public life.
The real intention of “Establishment Clause” was simply to guarantee that the Congress did not legally compel citizens regarding
which religious or philosophical doctrines they must believe. The notion that the Founders might have been worried by the
possibility of anyone “taking offense” to religious teachings or symbols is nothing more than a modern-day fabrication.
But, having successfully constructed just such a caricature of the Establishment Clause, the ACLU now claims responsibility for
ensuring that certain individuals and groups go through life in America, free of ever being “offended.”
And, since every conceivable action holds the potential to “offend” somebody, a decision must be made as to which actions do
and don’t constitute legitimate cases of “offense.” Of course, the ACLU presumes itself to be the absolute arbiter of this role.
Meanwhile, the apostles of “political correctness” diligently spread their religion by way of “Sensitivity Training” sessions,
occurring at government institutions from the highest Cabinet level offices to the tiniest rural school districts, where subjects are
mentally bludgeoned into compliance. But, rather than decry these “tent revivals” of the counterculture, the ACLU supports them,
and, in some cases, demands that they be conducted.
While proper codes of conduct have always been a fitting part of any reasonable working environment, “Sensitivity Training” is
clearly intended to accomplish far more. Ultimately, its goal is nothing less than to instill an immutable structure of ideas into its
participants. Though an absolute affront to anything traditionally regarded as “religious,” it promotes a mindset that is every bit
as foundational to the counterculture as the Bible is to believing Christians.
In the public arena, these tactics are justified as a desperate defense against the ostensible “dangers” of an America eventually
ruled by omnipotent Bible-believing dictators. Yet, in the meantime, it is the ACLU that is amassing and increasingly wielding just
such power, aided and abetted by the collusion of activist courts and the extra-constitutional decisions they now willingly hand
down.
The real danger to America’s future does not emanate from a display of the Christ Child on the courthouse lawn anymore than
from the verses of a Christmas Carol. Rather, it is present in any governing entity that presumes the authority to control thought.
A government that will forcibly eradicate any particular creed is one that will just as forcibly supplant that creed with one of its
own.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Religion, Secularism, & America
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian. Adamo maintains his own Internet website, which is located at
www.chrisadamo.com.
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