[CS-FSLUG] ACLU Drops Religion from the First Amendment

[Fred A. Miller]

ACLU Drops Religion from the First Amendment
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If there was ever a doubt that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was 
anti-religion, this little gem on their web page should end the debate. 

"It is probably no accident that freedom of speech is the first freedom 
mentioned in the First Amendment: 'Congress shall make no law...abridging the 
freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the people peaceably to assemble, 
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.' The 
Constitution's framers believed that freedom of inquiry and liberty of 
expression were the hallmarks of a democratic society." -- 
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechMain.cfm 

The problem is that they edited out the true first freedom listed in our Bill 
of Rights: Religion. 

The actual text reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment 
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the 
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to 
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." 

Before being hijacked by secular radicals in the 1960s, the ACLU protected the 
First Amendment rights of everyone, including religious expression. Now they 
are little more then the press agents and lawyers for pornographers, 
abortionists, and homosexuals. 

The "New" ACLU has taken a page out of George Orwell's classic novel, "1984". 
In the book, "Big Brother" routinely rewrote history when the facts became 
inconvenient. Being among the most anti-Christian and anti-religious 
organizations around today, they have dropped the reference to religion 
contained in the First Amendment down the modern day equivalent of the 
Orwellian "memory hole". 

They may have done this because they have gotten so much heat recently from 
their clear anti-religion bias. This week in Georgia a judge ruled that 
neither the plaintiff's identity nor the trial proceedings involving the ACLU 
that requested removal of a display of the Ten Commandments from the Barrow 
County Courthouse can be made public. This means no one from the media will 
be allowed in the court and no reporting on the trial will occur. I guess 
next they will have to drop the passage about freedom of the press from the 
First Amendment.

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