Point of order! Who is being punished and treated cruelly, the inmates or the deputies? Sensible, sane people know the answer. The ACLU threatened to legally pursue the matter. I’d like to suggest the inmates are tossing their “leftovers” in the wrong direction and at the wrong people. A TV Station polled the local citizens, and 79 percent of them sided with the sheriff. It stands without saying that the ACLU has lost touch with logic, reality, and morality. But read on for more.

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

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Part I

The First Amendment

This one statement, composed by our founding fathers and introduced as the First Amendment to our country’s Constitution, has engendered more controversy than any other phase of our nation's charter. It has caused a wide diversity of interpretations by those who legislate our laws, from the Supreme Court on down to Public School Boards.

So just what did our founding fathers have in mind when they formulated this document? Was it their intention to dismantle the Christian movement? Did they hope to remove God from all federal, state, and civic premises? Were they anti-Deity? Did they initiate a political doctrine that would deny school children, during school hours, the right to address the God of heaven voluntarily? Before we can comprehend the message our founding fathers hoped to establish and expected to convey, it is essential that we understand religious and political conditions in those countries from where our forefathers fled.

Fleeing To America
It is a matter of history that a great number of our forefathers left their homelands and fled to what is now America because of religious restraints and persecution. They were not free to serve and worship the God of heaven according to the dictates of conscience. Consequently, they sought freedom from rigidly established State religions of their homelands. On numerous occasions, persecution was the result of failure to adhere to State laws respecting religion.

To express the issue in simpler terms, the Governments of these countries controlled and legislated religion—but only because those Governments were dominated and controlled by established sects. In some cases, organized religion was the slave of the State. In other cases, the State was the slave of organized religion. This, and only this, is what many of our forefathers fled. And because of this political-religious configuration, our founding fathers felt constrained to add the religious clause to our Constitution.

What Our Constitution Forbids And Allows
Our Constitution forbids Government from legislating and establishing religious laws, and it further forbids a particular religion from legislating and establishing religious laws and enforcing them upon Government and its people. The Government may not become religion’s master. The Government may not impose peculiar religious beliefs upon its citizens. The Government may not sponsor a particular religion, whether in the classroom at school or in any other federal agency.

In America, religion may not master or aggressively influence Government. This is precisely what the Supreme Court meant in 1962 when they authored a decision on prayers in public schools. Schools do not have the prerogative to establish religious procedures, organize religious prayer groups, or otherwise sponsor, support, or formally condone a religious creed. Now, where does all of this bring us?

Simply, any religious act or practice that is strictly voluntary, whether inside public school classrooms or inside the chambers and hallways of Congress, does not in any way violate our Constitution. It is when religion is enforced upon others by any Government agency that the Constitution is profaned. Too, the Constitution is violated when any religion imposes its beliefs upon any Government agency.

None of these elements are involved in the “Prayers in Public Schools” controversy. Atheists and the ACLU would like to convince us, and indeed have convinced a large segment of our nation’s population, that our Constitution is infringed upon when public school children are given permission to pray voluntarily or read their Bibles.

We must understand the motive and rationale behind the ACLU’s crusade. It appears that praying in and on public school premises is only the surface of their overall goal. If you have been following the lewd performances of the ACLU through the years, you have observed that they are most always opposed to anything that has either religion or God associated with it.

Apparently, we are not dealing with some organization that is simply crusading against innovations that would violate our Constitution. There are strong indications we are dealing with an anti-God and anti-spiritual political party or cult that is devoted to totally removing God and America’s spiritual foundation from our culture and from our society.

An Incident In Iowa And Elsewhere
In Iowa a few years ago, the Civil Liberties Union went to court to stop the Gideons from distributing their Bibles to the student body of a local school district. According to media accounts, school officials assisted in providing the Bibles. The Gideons lost the battle and agreed not to continue distributing Bibles to public school officials for distribution. The school officials misbehaved by getting involved, but this incident, and thousands like it, demonstrate how hard the ACLU and its subsidiaries are working to delete God, spiritual and moral principles from our society. Their atheistic conduct slaps at the faces and intentions of our founding fathers.

The ACLU will not lift a finger to stop the distribution of printed material in public schools pertaining to biological and genetical evolution, in spite of the fact that the printed material is anti-God. I charge that genetical evolution, as taught in public school textbooks, is anti-God printed matter in that it attributes all matter, whether organic or inorganic, to sources other than a supreme Creator. Biological evolution does not credit any form of life to a supernatural Power. In other words, anti-God textbooks and practices are promoted in our public schools, but pro-God printed material and practices may not be promoted in public schools. Is this freedom of speech and press?

No Need To Teach Sectarian Religion
I am not suggesting that school teachers be allowed to teach sectarian religion, or even the Bible, to students. It can be demonstrated there is ample scientific evidence that confirms supernatural creation without even referring to religion or to the biblical record. However, atheists and the ACLU object to teaching the Creation Model alongside the Evolution Model, even though Deity is never referred to in the Creation Model approach. Additionally, the Creation Model is no more “religious” than the Evolution Model. The Creation Model is as scientific as its counterpart.

Part II

The ACLU’s Inconsistencies And Policies

Is The ACLU Unstable?
Most of you are aware that each session of Congress is opened with a prayer. Our nation’s leaders support this tradition. Is the practice in violation of the First Amendment? If not, why would a prayer before each session of school violate our Constitution? No one would be compelled to pray, or to bow his head, or even remain in the same room while the prayer is being spoken—just as it is with each session of Congress. We are constrained to ask: What makes one right and the other wrong? How may one practice be sanctioned when the other is condemned?

I chuckle at the ACLU when they campaign for “separation of Church and State” while accepting and playing bosom-buddy to every penny and every dollar that bears the inscription, “In God we trust.” And when they sing our National Anthem, do they play shut-mouth when they approach the words that refer to God? Do they affirm, “So help me God,” in a court of law when asked if they will tell the truth? Or do their vocal cords cease to function? Do they rush to court instead of affirming “One nation under God” when they’re reciting the Pledge of Allegiance?

You see, none of these exercises merge Church and State. Church and State remain separated in spite of them. Then why is there so much controversy over a little simple prayer, and voluntary at that, in public schools?

My Prediction
I do not hold prophetic powers, but I predict the time will come when anti-Deity enthusiasts in the likes of the ACLU will go all-out to purge God from coins and currency, from the Pledge of Allegiance, and from our National Anthem. Anti-God judges will rule in their favor unless believers get off their “cans” and fight as intently as our opponents are fighting. If you think this prediction too radical, listen to Syndicated Columnist George Will.

“The official ACLU policy guide says, among many other things: There should be no tax-exempt status for churches and synagogues; the words ‘In God We Trust’ should be taken off the currency and ‘Under God’ should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance; drug use and prostitution should be legalized; homosexuals should have a right to marry and be foster parents; all prisoners, regardless of their offenses, should be released from prison and allowed to return to their last place of residence to vote” (The Des Moines Register, September 25, 1988).

In November, 1987, Reader’s Digest accused the ACLU of defending “the free flow of pornography by arguing that a book never harmed anyone.” The ACLU’s reputation and history speak for themselves.

We dare not permit this great country to become a tool of atheists and skeptics and anti-spiritual intellectuals. Brute force, however, is not the answer, for brute force generates brute force. I would remind you that a certain Man changed the world without throwing a rock, burning a building, or drawing a sword.

He [Jesus] changed the world by the simple act of persuasive and dynamic teaching.

There will never be another like him! His method is the only method endorsed by the God of creation. We are not involved in a carnal warfare, the great apostle Paul affirmed. We are participants in a spiritual warfare, and the force that commands our enemies is Satan himself, dressed up in the likes of anti-God organizations.

Recapping

1) Our founding fathers fled to this great republic, not because of prayers in their homeland’s public schools, not because God was mentioned in their homeland’s pledge of allegiance, and not because members of their homeland’s parliament listened to someone pray before each session.

Our founding fathers fled to this great country because Church and State were incorporated, not separated, and freedom of religion was stifled and, in many cases, prohibited. The strong dictatorial arm of particular religions, such as Catholicism and The Established Church of England, reached out to enslave and, in many cases, kill those who dared question their authority. This was done by the States’ approval and support. This is what our founding fathers fled. They no doubt would have welcomed the freedom to pray anywhere, publicly or otherwise, and to read their Bibles at any time, whether in school or in the halls of parliament.

2) The 1962 ruling by the Supreme Court did not outlaw voluntary prayers in public schools. The ruling outlawed official or State-sponsored prayers. The school is an arm of the State. And the State cannot establish a particular religion through any of its agencies.

3) This country’s very foundation is being disrupted and shaken by atheists, skeptics, pagan intellectuals, and the ACLU. These people appear to be set on a course to eliminate God and spirituality from our culture and from our society. They must be opposed on every level. To stick our heads in the sand and do nothing is to surrender and admit defeat. This we must not do. This we will not do.

4) A fact so obvious it is hardly worth mentioning is that he ACLU supports almost any form of legislation that tears at our nation’s moral and spiritual fiber, but opposes any legislation that would make our nation morally and spiritually stronger. This in itself should be sufficient evidence to convince any independent thinker that the ACLU and her sister organizations are bent on surrendering our nation to a primitive and godless era similar to the deceased Roman Empire.

Concluding Thought
Lawmakers, lobbyists, humanists, atheists, and the ACLU often ignore the latter half of the First Amendment, which reads, “...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” You see, the First Amendment is breached when school children are denied the freedom to pray or discuss creation science voluntarily on school premises. They are prohibited from freely exercising their constitutional rights, and no tossing of the coin will change this truth. So just who is infringing, God’s children or the camp of atheists and evolutionists?