ACLU Liars Condemn Abraham Lincoln

See my previous article: "President Obama Is Not a Christian: Bill Maher Agrees With Me." In that article, I reference the frankly RELIGIOUS proclamation that Abraham Lincoln issued after Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The entire text of Lincoln's proclamation is et forth in hitorian Shelby Footee's massive three volume, narrative history of the Civil War. Lincoln gives the credti to GOD., in a way you could not even imagine Barack Obama doing. See the end of Foote's account of Gettysburg, and its aftermath. Sure, Foote implies that Lincoln creditaed God partly to avoid giving credit to Meade, with whom Lincoln was displeased for letting Lee's army escape. But the point is that LINCOLN had no problem invoking RELIGION (and everyone knew he was referring to the CHRISTIAN religion) in a Presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving. You might also refer to the proclamation GEORGE WASHINGTON gave as to Thanksgiving (properly viewed as a RELIGIOUS holiday, along with Christmas and Easter/Good Friday). Union troops, of course, went to war to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic": "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord....."

Segue to 2011, and the LIARS of the ACLU. No, this is not a matter of opinion. The ACLU LIES on religion, and gets worse every single day. It is an absolute, objective LIE that the First Amendmentwas an effort by the Founders to "separate" religion totally from public life in America. Remember that the First Amendment was NOT in the original Constitution (hence the word "Amendment", for you people who may belong to the ACLUL). That is because the Federal Government was SUPPOSED to be a goverfnment of LIMITED powers, and therefore the Bill of Rights was supposed to be UNNECESSARY--since the FEDERAL government was not supposed to have those powers anyway. But a lot of people were afraid of the FEDERAL government--fearing it would grow into a MONSTER. No people in history were ever more right in their fears. Thus, we got the Bill of Rights as AMENDMENTS to the original concept of the Framers, and the Bill of Rights were not supposed to change a thing. The Bil of Rights was just supposed to MAKE SURE that ut was understood that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT did not overreach. It was directed SOLELY against the Federal Government, and the STATES could still establish a state church (if the law of a state were to allow it). Tus, when the ACLU talks about the "Founders" setting up a complete separation of church and state, the ACLU LIES (objectively--not a matter of opinion) Prayer in teh public schools was common until the early 1960's (almost 200 yeas after the Constitution was written), and that ws the result of a SUPREME COURT (not the "Founders") opinion applying the FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT (another "Amendment" jot enacted until after Lincoln was dead in the aftermath of the Civil War). Until the Fourteenth Amendment, and the expansive Supreme Court interpretation of it starting with the "Roosevelt Court", the states could do prettty much anything they wanted with regard to religion. This background leads us to the latest atrocity against reasoned thought on the part of the truly despicable, and evil, ACLU.

A city council somewhere, or some such LOCAL body, has a tradition of starting off each meeting with the Lord's Prayer. Evidently, all of the council members agree that is what they want to do, in the exercise of their religious freedom. The INTOLERANT (and stupid, unless you realize the totally leftist agenda at work) ACLU has sued to stop this exercise of personal faith on the part of the city council members. It is the ACLUI "explanatioin" of this intolerant stupidity that is the crowning evidence of just how far from reality the ACLU has strayed (not to mentioin many Federal judges): "A public official has no right to express a preference for one religioin over another (aside: Obama, this means YOU) because theConstitution, as established by the Founders, demands that every member of any government be absolutely NEUTRAL in his or her statements on religion." That is what the spokeswoman for the ACLU said. I kid you not. I don't make these things up. I merely report them. Yes, I a quoting the gist of what was said, but I promise you I am being more than fair in the way I am paraphrasing. And what the ACLU says--and what they always say--is HOGWASH: an absolute lie.

It would be news to Abraham Lincoln, who the ACLU obviously says was violating the First Amendment. It would be news to George Wasignton. Then their is the Declaration of Independence, which says people are endowed with "rights" "BY THEIR CREATOR" (the phrase Obama insists on leaving out, because he has totally bought into the ACLU LIE, and further is not a Christian). John Adams even put in his draft of the Massachusetts (see David McCullough's masterful biography) that people have a DUTY to worship God (although Adams certainly believed each should have the right to do so in his or her own way).

Nope. The liars of the ACLU are actually CONDEMNING the FOUNDERS of this country, and almost every great leader we have had since then. And, worse, they are asking the Federsl courts to impose the insane views of the ACLU on everyone else. It is a matter of FREEDOM for a public official to be able to proclaim his faith, if he or she wants to do so. The First Amendment--even as to the Federal Government, which is the only government to which it originally applied--only prevents the ESTABLISHMENT of a religioni. It did not viiolate the First Amendment for Lincoln--and the Union army--to praise God. Christmas as a holiday does not violate the First Amendment, atlhough the ACLU dearly WANTS to get rid of Christmas as a national holiday (if only they could get away with it). After all, is it NEUTRAL to have a CHRISTIAN holiday (not to mention Thanksgiving--really a Puritan inspired holiday). Is there really anything wrong with the introduction given for the Federal judge in every Federal courtroom I was ever in: "God save this honorable court"? Of course there is not. None of this "establishes" a Federal religion, or prevents other religions from pursuing its creed in any way it wants (including getting a national holiday, if it can).

What says that every government official has to be totally NETRAL in refusing to state a preference for any religion? Nothing. The liars of the ACLU MADE IT UP. Yes, this is anotaher Orwellian Big Lie. It is simply absurd to suggest that Abarahm Lincoln had no business thanking God for Gettysburg (leaving aside the question of whether it makes since to claim that God is on your side, which both the North and South did, but if it ever were to make sense it did so in the context of Lincoln's proclamation). I have no problem, as an agnostic, with political leaders asking for guidance from God. It at least shows that those politicians, if sincere, recognize a higher authority than themselves. I am convinced that is not true of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and most leftist Democrats. No, it may not be true of me either, but I am TOLERANT. I am willing to consider that I might be missing something. And I am not so INSECURE as to worry about a public official believeing differently than I do.

As stated in my article on President Obama not being a Christian (as to which both Bill maher and me still agree), these INTOLERANT agnostics and atheists give people like me a bad name. They don't trully believe in freedom. They are actually anti-Christian bigots. You might think I want my own agnostic beliefs to be recognized. And it is true that I would probably admire an HONEST agnostic running for President--one who is also a TOLERANT agnostic who does not want to deprive other people of their religion. This is primarily a country of Christians. That means that you are likely to encounter the Christian religion in this country. I have no sympathy for you if you are not up to the task. But I am convinced that those who are most INTOLERANT in wanting to eliminate reference to religion in public life are really on interested in an AUTOCRATIC impostion of their views on everybody else--more blatantly anti-freedom than any fundmentalist Christian (of any influence) I have ever heard. If you cant stand a city council reciting the Lord's Prayer, I am sorry for you--as I am sorry for each and every member of the ACLU. you are a RELIGIONAPHOBIC. You really should do something about that neurotic/psychotic FEAR of religion.

As I hae said no multiple occasions, what is the TOLERANT thing to do if you are at a dinner table, or anywhere else, and someone (for his or her own comfort and guidance) gives a prayer? The TOLERANT thng to do is to bow your head and NOT PRAY. That is what I do. I don't stand up and yell: "How dare you insult people by assuming that they want to hear your stupid prayer." I regard that as RUDE. That is perhaps the most definitive thing I have to say about the ACLU and religioin: They are RUDE LIARS.