Thursday, November 17, 2005
God Bless the ACLU
Today's Uberchristians seem to hate the ACLU. They seem to forget that the ACLU is fighting to keep religious expression of all kinds legal in this country. I suppose they would prefer that only their kind of religious expression be legal.
That said, the ACLU has drawn a little more fire than usual from the Holy Rollers this week. Their latest controversy comes from Georgia. As reported by the Dallas Morning News, the ACLU is fighting to expand tax-exempt status to cover a variety of spiritual books. Currently, only the Holy (Christian) Bible is granted that status by Georgia law.
The ACLU is fighting on behalf of a bookstore owner that carries texts from a number of theologies. Her quote sums it all up: "If they're not taxing someone's holy scriptures, they shouldn't be taxing anyone's," said Candace Apple, who owns the Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs. "I'm not willing to stand at the counter and tell someone, 'Oh sorry, your religion is wrong.' "
Let's make sure we understand exactly what's happening here. The ACLU is not persecuting Christians. They not taking away anything from Christians. They're trying to provide equal government protection to all religious people.
Naturally, that won't stop Uberchristians from attacking the ACLU. I reprint below, unedited and in its entirety, an e-mail from one such "Christian" hate group.
Date: November 17, 2005
From: Faith and Action
By: Rev. Rob Schenck and Dane Rose
Christian Activists to Hand-Deliver Letters Demanding ACLU Back Off
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Reverends Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) and Patrick J. Mahoney will visit ACLU headquarters today to hand-deliver more than 20,000 petitions demanding that the left-leaning liberal attack group back off of terrorizing communities and individuals who seek to affirm America's Judeo-Christian values.
Schenck, who heads up Faith and Action in the Nation's Capital, and Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, asked their respective members to sign the statements after the ACLU sued a small rural school district in Adams County, Ohio, over four displays of the Ten Commandments in front of public schools there. The ACLU won an order for the Commandments to be removed, then demanded that the school reimburse them for legal expenses. After Christian ministers in the community stepped forward with a pledge to replace the money taken from the school budget, the ACLU settled for $80,000.
"The ACLU is this generation's Ku Klux Klan," said Rev. Rob Schenck. "They gallop into small towns with legal hoods over their heads and terrorize good people by threatening to harm children by draining the coffers of local schools if they so much as dare to recognize our nation's true heritage. These ACLU bullies are nothing more than psychological terrorists."
That said, the ACLU has drawn a little more fire than usual from the Holy Rollers this week. Their latest controversy comes from Georgia. As reported by the Dallas Morning News, the ACLU is fighting to expand tax-exempt status to cover a variety of spiritual books. Currently, only the Holy (Christian) Bible is granted that status by Georgia law.
The ACLU is fighting on behalf of a bookstore owner that carries texts from a number of theologies. Her quote sums it all up: "If they're not taxing someone's holy scriptures, they shouldn't be taxing anyone's," said Candace Apple, who owns the Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs. "I'm not willing to stand at the counter and tell someone, 'Oh sorry, your religion is wrong.' "
Let's make sure we understand exactly what's happening here. The ACLU is not persecuting Christians. They not taking away anything from Christians. They're trying to provide equal government protection to all religious people.
Naturally, that won't stop Uberchristians from attacking the ACLU. I reprint below, unedited and in its entirety, an e-mail from one such "Christian" hate group.
Date: November 17, 2005
From: Faith and Action
By: Rev. Rob Schenck and Dane Rose
Christian Activists to Hand-Deliver Letters Demanding ACLU Back Off
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Reverends Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) and Patrick J. Mahoney will visit ACLU headquarters today to hand-deliver more than 20,000 petitions demanding that the left-leaning liberal attack group back off of terrorizing communities and individuals who seek to affirm America's Judeo-Christian values.
Schenck, who heads up Faith and Action in the Nation's Capital, and Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, asked their respective members to sign the statements after the ACLU sued a small rural school district in Adams County, Ohio, over four displays of the Ten Commandments in front of public schools there. The ACLU won an order for the Commandments to be removed, then demanded that the school reimburse them for legal expenses. After Christian ministers in the community stepped forward with a pledge to replace the money taken from the school budget, the ACLU settled for $80,000.
"The ACLU is this generation's Ku Klux Klan," said Rev. Rob Schenck. "They gallop into small towns with legal hoods over their heads and terrorize good people by threatening to harm children by draining the coffers of local schools if they so much as dare to recognize our nation's true heritage. These ACLU bullies are nothing more than psychological terrorists."
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