The ACLU is hypocritical. It cannot stand any mention of God in the public square by any public employee, repeatedly claiming that such violates their distorted and unfounded view of the First Amendment. But at the same time they seek to essentially establish a state where God is not allowed to be freely acknowledged without coercion and make Atheism the official state religion in clear violation of the Law of the Land. The story of the ACLU versus the Huntington County Community School Corporation proves this point once again and how if one parent complains everything must stop.
The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of an offended parent, is suing an elementary school district for allowing its students to attend a non-taxpayer-funded religious education program that meets on campus.
For the past 55 years, the Huntington County Community School Corporation of rural Indiana has permitted students in its eight elementary schools to attend religious study groups through a “released time” program.
The program, coordinated by an area church association, enables students with parental permission to be released from classes one hour during the school day to receive religious instruction that cannot be otherwise offered by the public school.
And while a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court ruling permits “released time” religious instruction, the ACLU is alleging that since Huntington County’s programs are housed in trailers on school property, they violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
In championing the First Amendment – which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” – the ACLU frequently cites the “wall of separation between church and state,” a phrase first coined by Thomas Jefferson to protect churches, but now often interpreted to encompass any interaction between faith and public schools.
The Alliance Defense Fund, a legal organization defending religious liberty, however, disagrees with the ACLU and its interpretation of Jefferson’s famous phrase.
“The only wall that separates religious groups from conducting programs on public school campuses is the ACLU’s wall, not Thomas Jefferson’s,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David Cortman in a statement announcing a friend-of-the-court brief filed by his organization. “The program is perfectly constitutional.”
I like to ask this question because it drives nuts like this one lone parent who thinks the world revolves around them. That question is, if one person complaining is enough to get the program banned, how many parents complaining is enough to get it reinstated? One? Two? Fifty? A hundred?
The answer is no number of parents complaining in the reverse is enough because in the ACLU’s mind any such person that would desire the ability to worship God, especially on public property, must be mentally ill, a racist, a sexist, a bigot, a homophobe or whatever have you.
Earth to ACLU, it is very Stalinist of you to misrepresent Jefferson’s comments on Church and State and apply them in ways that not even he dared to. But then again, you folks are a bunch of liberals and the spreading of the Big Lie is the way you get things done right?
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