The Living Document And The Unelected Legislature
Posted on August 24, 2005
The first amendment states: “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 to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The far-left have some other constitution they call a “living document.” Its first amendment says, “There is an inseparable wall between Church and State. Religion shall be suppressed to only being expressed in private….filth shall be protected as speech, and our redress of grievances might not always be peaceably assembled.
Or something like that.
Through constant judicial activism, the ACLU has been one of the primary founders of this “living document”, as well as many activist judges who have written it from the bench.
For example, the ACLU has constantly tried to redefine the First Amendment’s protections of press and speech to include all kinds of filth and perverse things including child porn.
The Establishment Clause is one of the most abused sections in the Constitution, completely twisted out of context from its original meaning. For example the ACLU’s claim that a voluntary prayer made by a high school valedictorian, selected on completely neutral grounds, or the posting of Ten Commandments by organizations with private funds on a public Courthouse lawn, somehow violates the Establishment Clause. Neither of these acts are done by Congress, nor are they “laws” that establish religion.
Many local governments across Georgia and other states begin their meetings with a prayer and reference the Christian deity during the invocation. However, the ACLU says doing so is unconstitutional, and last year federal courts in South Carolina agreed with them.
“The courts have said that if they are going to have these prayers, they have to be inclusive,” said Maggie Garrett, a staff attorney for ACLU of Georgia who filed earlier this month against the Cobb County government for the practice.Source
What the majority thinks doesn’t matter anymore. Former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser made that clear when he said in an ACLU press release after Alaska voted for a constitutional amendment to preserve the traditional definition of marriage, “Today’s results prove that certain fundamental issues should not be left up to a majority vote.”
See, the ACLU believes they know what is best for America, not the people. And this type of elitism defines them. Sometimes it is very obvious such as comparing religion to terrorism. And this guy was serious.
I’m gonna go ahead and start promoting a book that will be coming out very soon, which I highly suggest you all go out and buy when it does. I was sent an advance copy, and to illustrate my point…I’m gonna quote from The ACLU Vs. America by Alan Sears and Craig Osten.
“Dennis Prager, a well known columnist and radio host, perhaps best expressed the ACLU’s worldview (and that of its allies) and its antagonism toward American values, when he wrote the following:”
To understand the worldwide ideological battle - especially the one between America itself - one must understand the vast differences between leftist and rightest worldviews and between secular and religious (specifically Judeo-Christian) values.
One of the most important of these differences is their attitudes toward law. Generally speaking, the Left and the secularists venerate, if not worship law. They put their faith in law-both national and international. For most of the Left, “Is it legal?” is usually the question that determines whether an action is right or wrong….
To the Left, legality matters most, while to the Right, legality matters far less than morality. To the Right and to the religious, the law, when it is doing its job, is only a vehicle to morality, never a moral end in itself. Even the Left has to acknowledge this. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955, she violated the law. Therefore, anyone who thinks she did the right thing is acknowledging that law must be subservient to morality…
And why is the Left so enamored by law?
First, the Left, which is largely secular, regards morality no as absolute, but as relative. This inevitability leads to moral confusion, and no one likes to be morally confused. So instead of moral absolutes, the left holds legal absolutes. “Legal” for the Left is what “moral” is for the Right. The religious have a belief in a God-based moral law, and the Left believes in man-made law as the moral law.
Second, whereas they cannot change God’s laws, those on the Left can and do make many of society’s laws. In fact the Left is intoxicated with law-making. It gives them the power to mold society just as Judeo-Christian values did in the past. Unless one understands that the leftist ideals function as a religion, one cannot understand the Left.
Laws are the Left’s vehicles to earthly salvation. Virtually all human problems have a legal solution. Some men harass women? Pass laws banning virtually every flirtatious action a man might engage in vis-a-vis a woman. Flood legislatures with laws preventing the creation of a “hostile work environment.” Whereas the religious world has always worked to teach men how to act toward women, the secular world, lacking these religious values, passes laws to control men.
In fact, since it lacks the self-control apparatus that is a major part of religion, the Left passes more and more laws to control people. That is why there is a direct link between the decline in Judeo-Christian religion and the increase in governmental laws controlling human behavior.
Of course, the more laws that are passed, the less liberty society enjoys. But to the Left, which elevates any number of values above liberty-e.g. compassion, equality, fairness- this presents little problem.
All this helps to explain the Left’s preoccupation with controlling courts; passing laws; producing, enriching and empowering lawyers; filing lawsuits; and naming judges. Laws and the makers of laws will produce heaven on earth. And that is why the Left hates the America….(that) says morality is higher than man-made law.
A very well written piece there that very accurately describes the situation. It isn’t just the ACLU’s fault that America is losing its moral values, a big part is also played by the judges who rule in their favor. Relative moralism, and Political Correctness are eating America alive.
This type of thinking leads to totalitarian societies that the ACLU and its leftist allies say they oppose but Roger Baldwin admired during their “struggle in a transition period to Socialism.” When society exalts individual rights over collective responsibility, then speech or actions seen as interfering with the right of the individual must be silenced. When law, instead of God, is seen as the salvation of mankind, more and more restrictive laws are passed to ultimately limit freedom rather than expand it.ACLU Vs. America
That is exactly what is happening. The ACLU is shaping America in its ugly socialist image. It is restricting liberty rather than protecting it. They censor speech rather than protect it. Public school teachers are scared to say “Merry Christmas”, and County Commissions are afraid to pray in the name of Jesus.
If they continue their agenda unchallenged, they will create an America far from what our founding fathers fled in order to find freedom, and instead, we will become more like the countries the fled from.
But hope is not lost. ADF and other grassroots groups like Stop The ACLU, and other legal groups are here to fight. We can’t do it without you. We want to expand our reach by getting an ad in the Washington Times. Go Here to see how you can help.
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I was thinking about how Rush (censor) was being helped by the ACLU with all his Drugs and (censor) when I decided to go after the bad man in the desert. My daddy said no but I guess my strateegerry was all wrong and I had just
seen Black Hawk Down and I was all stoned and thought we should defend ourselves against these brown people over there… in… that place that has camels and giraffes and (censor).
I thought that’s who flew planes into the buildings on 9/11.
But noooooooo again I found out it was our family friends who did it in Saudi Arabia so I invaded the wrong country …maybe it was the jack and cokes the night before…. but I thought we were heading into the right country right after they told me we were going after Saddam instead of Osama because our Saudi Family friends said they would jack the price of oil up if we did I decided to tell a story of mass destruction….Hell if my supporters knew I wanted to outlaw pretzels after I almost died eating they would have supported me …I totally should have put that into the Patriot Act…oh well I can always put it in the next one when we go after another country that doesn’t have anything to do with 9/11 or Saudi Arabia.
I am George W. Bush and I approved this mess.
Edited and Censored BY Gribbit - This message was not approved by the President. This is a lefty moron who likes to troll conservative blogs and spew hate and filth. I am approving this message to show ignorance at its best.
Jay, I like what you’ve done with this site!!!
Thank you ticklebug.
Forgive me all who are language sensitive. I missed a few words when I approved that hateful message above. Unfortunately, after I approve it, the system won’t let me further edit because I didn’t author the post. However, Jay can.
I’ll let him know that I goofed and he’ll correct it soon.
Sounds like he was stoned when he wrote the comment too.
Great post! The ACLU speaks for, well, the ACLU only. They do not like the part of the COnstitution about “majority rule.”
The fact that you cannot make your argument without stating outright lies is telling. Child pornography is illegal in any format. Nobody on the “left,” including the ACLU, has proposed or suggested that child pornography is or should be legal. This is just a disgusting lie by those on the “far right.”
It is not a lie anonymous, it is a fact. Go check out their official policy and get back with me.
I agree. The ACLU is bad, bad, bad. Quit pimping your blog at LGF.
Now we have a new crop of anonymous cowards. Let’s refresh some memories:
Anonymous: noun; 1.pitiful excuse for a Frenchman;
2.coward that’s afraid of his own name;
3.a simple minded troll who has nothing to say of substance,
but would rather spend his/her time playing juvenile games;
4.Spineless moonbat (see also Dumocrat)
5.Proud defender of that which has no logical defense
adjective;1.spineless; 2.cowardly;
3.yellow (not to be confused with the color); 4.weak;
5.without couth; 6. of French origin;
7. disguised as French but actually German
This also applies to those who comment without a link or email address that is valid.
I read the full Supreme Court opinion found here:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=458&page=749#f*
Nowhere in the opinion nor on the ACLU website was I able to find even a reference to the ACLU filing an amicus brief in the Ferber case. Perhaps services like Westlaw or Lexis-Nexis would shed some light on the matter but I do not have access to either.
In writing this article did you review the source material referenced by Twilight of Liberty? If so, could you email me the amicus brief or at least point me to it?
I am not familiar with the Catholic League, publisher of Twilight of Liberty, so I am hesitant to blindly accept their conclusions. That’s not to say they’re wrong, I simply am not ready to lend them my ear until I verify for myself that they are credible in their conclusions.
At some point before I submitted the above comment the original post was altered eliminating the basis for my statements and questions.
Lesson learned: refresh the original post before I submit my comments.
Sorry, my MAJOR mistake, the original post was not altered. I opened the comment page for this article but had followed a link in this article to another article written on July 17 called, “ACLU Policy To Legalize Child Porn Distribution.” I got confused and wrote a response to the old article in the new article’s comment box. My apologies.
Mark, if you want to check his credentials, do the research or check out the book from your library. Trust me, you will find his credentials credible.
Would you consider the Alliance Defense Fund President, Alan Sears as credible? Make sure to buy his new book where he reaffirms this.
In New York Vs. Ferber the ACLU submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that child pornography is protected by the First Amendment. When Alan served on the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, he heard the ACLU’s legislative counsel testify that all such material, once created, is fully protected. The ACLU added that no government should be allowed to limit the distribution of child porn between “consenting adults.”
It is in their policy guide.
In both books it is sourced to “1992 Policy Guide of the ACLU,” policy 4d, p.7, and policy 4g, p.9
I tell you what Mark, I will be interviewing a senior attorney of ADF on Monday, and I will get you more info. However, I guarantee you I’m right.
Under the Communist Party’s socialist control and their totalitarian goals, their new America “socialist capitolism” the working class are slaves to the state. The state is god, therefore society is governed by the states man-made laws. The more laws that are passed, the less liberty society has, therefore they become slaves to the state. The leftists are governed by mans law (establishing his own, depraved moral standards-laws) where Christians are governed by God’s Law. The ACLU is a Communist force in America. http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/13/ and this: http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue07/apostasy.htm
The more laws the Communist Party can bring upon American citizens, the more they become slaves to those laws. Communism IS slavery!
TruthSavvy
If we tallied up all the cases where the ACLU has argued against government interference/regulation and then in favor of government interference/regulation I wonder which side would win?
If the ACLU does indeed work to make man a slave to the State then it would reason that our tally would show the ACLU largely favoring government interference/regulation. Right?
OK, Jay, here is what I found. The only ACLU Position Paper that I could find (dated Fall 1999) does not contain anything about pornography. This letter from the ‘Internet Free Speech’ section of their website discusses their position on child pornography:
Letter to Reps. Smith and Scott on H.R. 4623, the “Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention Act of 2002”
May 8, 2002
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=10364&c=252
“The ACLU opposes child pornography that uses real children in its depictions. Material, however, which is produced without using real children, and is not otherwise obscene, is protected under the First Amendment.”
The second part of that quote means that the ACLU supports freedoms already established by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court in decisions such as Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. ____ (2002).
I think many of you have a distorted view of what the ACLU is. If you would just read some material about what they actually do and stand for, perhaps you would have a better understanding. See http://www.aclu.org/about/
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I tried 5 times to post a reply but the system is not posting my comment. More evidence that the people running this do not support free speech or open and intelligent debate. -Anonymous
ok Troll Why,
Here is the reason why your posts won’t show up, the automatic filter found something in the language that you used and sent it to moderation. And until now, no one with moderator status has checked it.
Why is it you morons cannot get it through your heads, if it doesn’t go through, it gets moderated. Not all comments on this site get moderation. Only those that the filter kicks out. And it is a software thing has nothing to do with a human. But after it gets kicked to moderation…. it’s all us baby.
And Again:
Anonymous: noun; 1.pitiful excuse for a Frenchman;
2.coward that’s afraid of his own name;
3.a simple minded troll who has nothing to say of substance,
but would rather spend his/her time playing juvenile games;
4.Spineless moonbat (see also Dumocrat)
5.Proud defender of that which has no logical defense
adjective;1.spineless; 2.cowardly;
3.yellow (not to be confused with the color); 4.weak;
5.without couth; 6. of French origin;
7. disguised as French but actually German
Upon further investigation into the filter, it seems that Jay has it set to kick out comments that include 2 or more links. This is why yours got bounced. They contain 2 links. I will approve the first one that you submitted and delete the rest.
But, I’m putting you on notice, next time there is no valid email or link, it will rot in moderation.
I hate anonymous trolls.
My email is valid.
Yes, I’m a moron because your form randomly accepts or rejects posts with no indication when one gets rejected or why. And I’m a coward because I’m not posting messages using a descriptive name like Gribbit.
You cannot have an intelligent discussion on this subject and defend your lies so you start calling me names. Typical.
Yeah, your accusation of lies is completely uncalled for here. There is only facts and opinions here. I already don’t like you. You go speak free what you like, and I’ll take my freedom to ignore you if you spout ignorance.
u should give us more info