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ACLU's 'Search and Destroy' Agenda |
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ACLU's 'Search and Destroy' Agenda
By Guest: Marsha West, on Dec 08, 06
Search and Destroy missions involve sending out a group of soldiers from a
base camp to seek out and destroy the enemy. Often under the cover of
darkness a squad or platoon is sent out to set up an ambush for any
unsuspecting enemy that might come along. These soldiers conceal
themselves and wait to spring the ambush if the enemy wanders into the
trap. In a similar way the Bible gives an illustration of Satan laying in
wait to ambush Christians. Paul says, “Your enemy the devil prowls around
like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.”
In that same vane, the American Civil Liberities Union (ACLU) is the
‘Devourer of Religion.’ The vast majority of Americans view the ACLU’s
hit-squad as God-haters that desire to destroy all vestages of religion in
the public square, and all Judeo-Christian values and beliefs. Why?
Because religion gets in the way of their secular-progressive agenda. (See
below) ACLU lawyers have done more to attack Christianty than any other
organization in America today.
All of this is done under the guise of the alleged ‘wall of separation
between church and state.’ This often used phrase is normally attributed to
the Constitution. In actuality it came from a letter written by Thomas
Jefferson in response to the Danbury Baptist’s concern over a rumor they
had heard that the American government was going to set up a national
church, much like the Angelican Church in England. In the letter, Jefferson
explained to the clergymen that the Founding Fathers had set up a wall of
separation between church and state to prevent that from happening in
America.
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COMMENT
Someone should educate these people who keep incorrectly claim that church
state separation resulted from Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist
Assoc.
(1) APRIL 14, 1800
THE GAZETTE
PHILADELPHIA
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14.
The condition of Church and State in America is such as to fill
every considerate mind with the most unhappy sensations. In spite of that
vanity and fastidiousness which led the Federal Convention, in founding
their government, to preclude any connection, it will appear in the end,
even by our own deplorable example, that a strict and indissoluble
alliance
of religion to government has been ordained in the nature of things.
Though
formally sundered by Constitution and laws; together they decline and
together (it would seem) they are likely to perish. (SOURCE OF
INFORMATION:
THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES, APRIL 14, 1800 JAN 1, 1800 TO DEC 31,
1800 MFILM N.S. 10953 AP2.05
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(2) "The remaining part of the clause declares, that 'no religious test
shall ever be required, as a qualification to any office or public trust,
under the United States.' This clause is not introduced merely for the
purpose of satisfying the scruples of many respectable persons, who
feel an
invincible repugnance to any test or affirmation. It had a higher object;
to cut off for ever every pretence of any alliance between church and
state in the national government. "
(COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES, by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Vol III, (1833) pg 705)
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(3) Madison's vetoes: Some of The First Official Meanings Assigned to The
Establishment Clause
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/madvetos.htm
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(4) James Madison on Separation of Church and State
Direct references to separation to be found in the writings of James
Madison
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OCTOBER 1, 1803
Notes for annual message, Oct. 17, 1803: alterations and additions,
etc [1]
(3) after "assure"-are proposed "in due season, and under prudent
arrangements, important aids to our Treasury, as well as," an ample etc.
Quere: if the two or three succeeding paragraphs be not more
adapted to the separate and subsequent communication, if adopted as above
suggested.
(4) For the first sentence, may be substituted "In the territory between
the Mississippi and the Ohio another valuable acquisition has been made by
a treaty etc."[3.] As it stands, it does not sufficiently distinguish the
nature of the one acquisition from that of the other, and seems to imply
that the acquisition from France was wholly on the other side of the
Mississippi
May it not be as well to omit the detail of the stipulated
considerations, and particularly that of the Roman Catholic Pastor. The
jealousy of some may see in it a principle, not according with the
exemption of Religion from Civil power. In the Indian Treaty it will be
less noticed than in a President's speech.[4.]
FOOTNOTES:
[1.] For TJ's third annual message to Congress, Oct. 17, 1803, see Ford,
VIII, pp. 266-7)
[3.] TI's message announced the acquisition of territory by treaty
from the
Kaskaskia Indians; see
Ford, VIII, pp. 269-70.
[4.] TJ accepted JM's suggestion to omit any discussion of Indian treaty
requirements to maintain a Roman Catholic priest, leaving the stipulations
in the treaty to "the competence of both
houses.... as soon as the senate shall have advised its ratification"; see
ibid.
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, Washington,
Oct.
1, 1803, Notes for annual message, Oct. 17, 1803: alterations and
additions, etc.[1.],
The Republic of Letters, the Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison, 1776-1826, Edited by James Morton Smith, Vol. II, 1790
-1804, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, London, (1995) pp 1297-98)
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JUNE 3, 1811
"To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I
have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection
to the
Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem
Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical
distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the
purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United
States,
I could not have other wise discharged my duty on the
occasion which presented itself"
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Letter to Baptist Churches in North Carolina, June
3, 1811. Letters And Other Writings of James Madison Fourth President Of
The United States In Four Volumes Published By the Order Of Congress,
Vol..II, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, (1865) pp 511-512)
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MARCH 2, 1819
"The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated
hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions
with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the
morality of
the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly
increased by the total separation of the church from the State."
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Excert of a letter to Robert Walsh from James
Madison. MARCH 2, 1819 Letters and Other writings of James Madison, in
Four Volumes, Published by Order of Congress. VOL. III, J. B. Lippincott &
Co. Philadelphia, (1865), pp 121-126. James Madison on Religious Liberty,
Robert S.Alley, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, N.Y. (1985) pp 82-83)
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1817-1833
"Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and Gov't in the
Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by
Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents' already furnished
in their short history"
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Excerpt from Madison's Detached Memoranda. This
document was discovered in 1946 among the papers of William Cabell
Rives, a
biographer of Madison. Scholars date these observations in Madison's hand
sometime between 1817 and 1832. The entire document was published by
Elizabeth Fleet in the William and Mary Quarterly of October 1946.
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JULY 10, 1822
"Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation
between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have
no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done,
in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity
the less they are mixed together"
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Excerpt of letter to Edward Livingston from James
Madison, July 10, 1822. Letters and Other writings of James Madison, in
Four Volumes, Published by Order of Congress. VOL. III, J. B. Lippincott &
Co. Philadelphia, (1865), pp 273-276. James Madison on Religious Liberty,
Robert S.Alley, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, N.Y. (1985) pp 82-83)
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SEPTEMBER 1833
"I must admit moreover that it may not be easy, in every possible case, to
trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the civil
authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on
unessential points. The tendency to a usurpation on one side or the other
or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them will be best guarded
against by entire abstinence of the government from interference in
any way
whatever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order and protecting
each sect against trespasses on its legal rights by others".
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Letter written by James Madison to Rev. Jasper
Adams, September, 1833.Writings of James Madison, edited by Gaillard Hunt,
[not sure what the volume number is but have enough information presented
here to locate the letter] microform Z1236.L53, pp 484-488. )
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followed by
Some Thoughts on Religion and Law
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/bthot-lr.htm"
and the finally:
Study Guide: Separation of Church and State - Indepth
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/studygd0.htm
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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