Christmas Cheer and the ACLU

Just as familiar as stores bursting with goods, stories of Rudolph and Santa on TV, are the stories about the ACLU threatening local governments, schools, and other organizations for showing Nativity scenes or other familiar scenes of the Advent and Christmas Seasons.

This present story is just as good as any to illustrate the fallacious nature of the ACLU's actions as well as those of the Supreme Court in repressing religious expression in our country, a Christian country by the way.

The story explains that the ACLU is taking action because of the separation of church and state clause of the Constitution. Here is a copy of the Constitution of the United States of America. Read it and you will find NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE CLAUSE!

That is because it does not exist. There is no such clause in the Constitution. The phrase "separation of church and state was contained in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a baptist minister (1801) who had asked him whether the federal government might intrude on worship in his church. He in effect told the minister that he and his church had nothing to fear in that there was a wall of separation between government and church to protect the churches.

And here is where the issue lay, until 1947 when the Supreme Court erroneously (but purposefully) federalized this phrase by invoking it in a decision on Constitutional law in the case of Everson v Board of Education 1947. This decision launched the totally false notion that the Constitution and the Founders of this country were anti-Christian and anti-Religion.

In fact, the establishment clause accurately says "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."

That is, Congress cannot establish a national church nor can it prohibit worship of any kind (subject to harm to people or the country). THERE IS NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

The ACLU and the Supreme Court have in effect, to our eternal detriment" made a mockery of what the Founders of this country intended.