Dear Friends,
It seems to me that when people call for separation of church and State, and their actions don’t match their words, I wonder what they are really saying… Because actions speak louder than words.
Take the instance in Texas.
The Texas ACLU is adamantly against a board of education resolution summed up within the resolution itself as; “State Board of Education will look to reject future prejudicial social studies submissions that continue to offend Texas law with respect to treatment of the world’s major religious groups by significant inequalities of coverage space-wise and by demonizing or lionizing one or more of them over others.”
What the resolution is saying is that text book publishers must not treat a religion as good or bad. Doing so would be lionizing or demonizing that religion. Under this rule it would be frowned upon for a text book publisher to come out with a text book that said or alluded that Islam is evil. This resolution clearly states that demonizing a world religion is to be rejected. The resolution also would forbid a text book that took the position that Islam is the only true religion. That would be lionizing it.
What about ensuring that the World’s religions are treated fairly is obnoxious to the Texas ACLU?
Well a cursory look at the blogs on religion written by the Texas ACLU are uniformly pro Islam. I didn’t see one reference to any anti Mormonism. Seems funny that the ACLU feels that anti Moslem behavior is unacceptable but completely overlooks anti Mormon behavior.
What type of anti Mormon behavior? What about laws on the books in Missouri until 1976 that made it legal to kill a Mormon? The ACLU was silent on that issue. It was legal to kill a human being in the USA until 1976 if he or she practiced a certain religion. Mormonism. Nowhere and at no time in the USA has there ever been a law allowing for any anti Islamic behavior. Yet the ACLU is very concerned over the treatment of Moslems but not Mormons?
Anti Mormon bigotry is evident today. In the main stream media. Mormon temples are denied permits every day but the ACLU is silent. It is probable that the Mormons have been the most persecuted minority in the history of the USA. Yet the ACLU and the arbiters of public knowledge are silent.
The position the ACLU and the unbiased media have taken is that one or more of the World’s religions should be lionized and some should be demonized. That the text books our children are forced to read at the expediture of the public purse should propagandize religion. It is a valid role of government to demonize some religions and lionise others. No matter the wishes of the parents.
But why would they want that? It doesn’t make sense. The ACLU cliams to promote tolerance and religions freedom. Yet their actions belie their words. So what are we to make of it? These are questions that have great moment in present human history. Moreover they are questions with much emotional weight. But the ACLU acts the opposite of it’s stated intentions.
To agitate about the one while ignoring the other makes them hypocrites. But that hypocrisy is dangerous as well. The danger lays in the tension this resentment builds in society. Tension that creates friction between groups of people who are corralled in a fictitious fence of human conception. Corralled for the service of the Elite. In this case the ACLU.
People can be grouped in many ways. The same people fall into multiple groups. All of which are of human conception and design. Take Germans, Chinese, and Nigerians or Whites and Blacks, or Christians, Moslems and Buddists, or Lefties or righties, or men and women the ways to classify the same people are infinite.
Realise that when people seek to group people it is to some end. Not always in the interest of the people being grouped. Always to the interests of the people grouping them. Grouping people and classifying them is what romantic anti capitalists have done since Justus Moser. It is a way of causing friction and upheaval in society. Capitalism thrives on stability. So when the anti capitalist creates chaos he undermines capitalist markets and the functioning of the capitalist system. Like for example… propagandizing to children in public schools.
Not saying the ACLU are anti capitalists. I’m sure if you asked most would avow a love of capitalism… It’s just their actions, and words, are those of historical anti capitalists…
