By a strange coincidence, I just read a story (click
here to read it) about a lawsuit being filed by some of the parents in that California district over their kids being indoctrinated in Islam in their public school:
The ACLU, of course, has nothing to do with the suit, because it's only when someone tries to bring Christianity into any public venue that those people are stirred to action. Forcing kids to pretend they are Muslims on the taxpayers' dime is obviously just fine to the ACLU.
I also just read another story about Mike Newdow, the atheist who filed the suit against the Pledge. Here's an excerpt (the entire story can be found by clicking
here):
Despite the outpouring of outrage from politicians and pundits over the pledge ruling — not to mention the death threats on his answering machine — Mr. Newdow still plans to challenge the use of "In God We Trust" on currency. He would like to see an end to prayers at presidential inaugurations. "At President Bush's it just went on and on," he says, clearly annoyed. "I said, `Holy smokes, they can't do that!' " As an atheist, he plans to ferret out all insidious uses of religion in daily life. "Why should I be made to feel like an outsider?"
Sure, better that the 98% or so of us who
do believe in God should be made to feel like outsiders.
I guess it never occurred to him that if he didn't like listening to the prayer, HE COULD CHANGE THE CHANNEL!
Anyway, this is the ACLU mentality in its purest form. According to this guy and the ACLU, no Christian should be ever allowed to make any reference whatsoever to his/her faith where a non-Christian can hear or see it, and there must be no visible appearance of anything remotely connected to Christianity anywhere in public. (Islam and all other religions, of course, are somehow not covered by this bizarre twisting of the First Amendment, and may be practiced freely anywhere, as well as being forced on public school children at taxpayer expense.)
If this mentality were taken to its logical extreme, there could be no Christian Church visible from any public street, because some atheist might accidentally see it while driving by. In fact, Churches would have to be completely devoid of any identifying marks whatsoever, because even if they were shielded from the street, some athiest flying over the city in a plane might decide to look out the window, and it wouldn't be right to have him be traumatized by looking at a Church, would it?
Oh, and we also have to do something about all those cemetaries. There are always some graves with crosses on them, and we can't have those visible for an innocent atheist to see, can we? Since atheists bury their dead too, they are going to be visiting cemetaries, so those crosses have to go. If the surviving relatives protest about the defilement of their loved ones' graves, we'll just have to set them straight: this is AMERICA! Those crosses have to be destroyed, because WE HAVE FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN THIS COUNTRY, DARN IT!!
You see, the problem is that true neutrality is not possible. We all have to be tolerant of each other's beliefs. Completely purging Christianity from public life is just as intolerant as forcing all citizens to be members of a Christian demonination. There is a middle ground between these extremes that reasonable people can occupy.
Unfortunately, more and more atheists seem to be abandoning their reason in favor of intolerance and hate - and the ACLU is leading the charge.
