Wednesday, June 16, 2004

"UNDER GOD" ALLOWED BY SUPREME COURT

Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, 02-1624. I'm glad this past Monday the Supreme Court "allowed millions of schoolchildren to keep affirming loyalty to one nation 'under God'."

Along the same lines, the ACLU was fighting to take off another cross from a county seal. This time it's Los Angeles county (i.e. "ACLU ought to fight real battles" by a liberal journalist). I always found it disturbing that the ACLU, which claims to fight for people's civil liberties, is so anti-Christian. I would like to know where this originated from. Obviously, the ACLU doesn't stand for the civil liberties of a huge percentage of Americans.

This reminds me of my college days at Wisconsin. As part of a Christian organization, we were not allow to receive financial support from the university, but other non-Christian religious groups did. Hypocritical? Contradictory? Yes. It was something that always made me shake my head that many institutions and people that establish their policies were supposedly pluralistic but blatantly anti-Christian. Why? Are Christians or the obvious Christian heritage of our nation like the "evil empire" in Star Wars? Are they the "establishment" that hinders social progress? A source of hatred and bigotry? It is just odd when you think about it. Obviously, it's not about the separation of church and state when other non-Christian, religious organizations receive money. And as you probably know, this was just not limited to my old college campus. Anyone from the ACLU want to answer these questions?

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