ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

When I first heard the news that U.S. District Judge, Barbara Crabb, had ruled, THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, I actually felt more amusement than anger. Don’t get me wrong; this is serious stuff. It’s just that the insincere and fatuous premise applied by Judge Crabb, and those of her ilk, in reaching such conclusions, has become tedious.

The “religion clauses” in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution consist of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. Together, they state that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” These clauses clearly set government boundaries, precluding the establishment of a national religion (the preference of one over another) and, the subjugation of individual religious thought and expression. Prayer is not establishing a religion; [it] is merely the free exercise thereof. No reasonable person can come to any other conclusion. Those who do, must abandon intellectual honesty to forward their sinister objective of removing all religious thought and principles from the public square.

So that you are aware of the major players in the effort to eradicate religion in America, I have identified them below. I strongly advocate knowing from where secular activism emanates:

I first must mention the Warren Court of the 1960’s. Chief Justice Earl Warren presided over the Supreme Court’s ruling to deny prayer in public schools. Justice Black wrote the decision in Engle v. Vitale, deeming prayer in the classroom to be unconstitutional. This decision in 1963 set the stage for an unprecedented attack on religion in the United States. From this Court’s ruling, came the now infamous phrase, “separation of church and state.” I challenge anyone to find that phrase in the U.S. Constitution!

The organization that brought the NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER case to the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, is the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the FFRF has an Honorary Board consisting of such luminaries as Mike Newdow, the misguided activist whose attempts to remove the word “GOD” from the Pledge of Allegiance have continually failed; Ron Reagan, Jr., the failed talk-show host and object of a pernicious forceps birth; Richard Dawkins, the world’s foremost authority on Atheism; and, Christopher Hitchens, the prolific writer and “angry” atheist. FFRF was founded in 1976 and boasts some 13,000 members.

Another major antagonist of Christian expression is, ironically, the Reverend Barry W. Lynn. Lynn is the Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. [This] organization is affiliated with the non-inspired United Church of Christ, which favors progressive views on civil rights, gay rights, women’s rights, and abortion. Whenever there is national discussion on issues involving the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Barry trots out on his tired, sweaty, one-liner horse to proclaim, ad nauseum, “there is constitutional support for separation of church and state; brush it down and put it away, Barry! Americans United for Separation of Church and State was founded in 1957 and claims a following of approximately 1,000,000 converts world-wide (counting Barry and his family).

Probably the best-known proponent of secular-progressive ideas is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In reality, the ACLU was formed with the intention of destroying the American capitalistic society. It was founded in 1920 by a self-described socialist named Roger Baldwin, and his partner in crime, Crystal Eastman, a zealous feminist and great admirer of the Soviet revolution. Roger had spent time in Russia, post formation of the ACLU, studying and admiring Stalin’s government structure. At a time when President Hoover was exporting American ideas and values, the Soviets were espousing a collectivism economic model - a model, Roger Baldwin wished to promote in the United States. Baldwin was a great admirer of the Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, who advocated selective breeding (eugenics), and abortion on demand. Roger also called a marriage between a man and a woman, “a grim mockery of essential freedom.” The fundamental concepts of Roger Baldwin thrive today in the tenets of the ACLU.

What is the best weapon to thwart these active, progressive groups? - A national day of prayer!