As of this date, 06-04-09, this folder contains 6 items.
******* item 1 ACLU THREATENS ABSTINENCE PROGRAM
******* item 2 ACLU BATTLES SCHOOLS' WARNING OVER EVOLUTION
******* item 3 ACLU PLANNING LAWSUIT OVER INTELLIGENT DESIGN THEORY
******* item 4 ONE REPORTER'S OPINION "ACLU: LEGAL TERRORISTS"
******* item 5 ACLU FULFILLING COMMUNIST AGENDA
******* item 6 ACLU FOUNDER A COMMUNIST IDEOLOGUE BENT ON UPROOTING JEDEA-CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
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******* item 1 ACLU THREATENS ABSTINENCE PROGRAM
******* From: [email protected]
******* Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004
******* To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41544
******* GROUP UP IN ARMS BECAUSE STATE WEBSITE INCLUDES MENTION OF GOD
******* � 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
******* The American Civil Liberties Union has threatened to sue the state of Louisiana because a state website promoting abstinence mentions God.
******* In a six-page letter, the ACLU claims the state abstinence program has violated a 2002 court settlement by invoking the name of God and quoting biblical passages on the program's taxpayer-funded website, reported the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
******* The legal group says it will take the Governor's Program on Abstinence back to federal court in 30 days if religious references are not removed from the site. Even so, the site, AbstinenceEdu.com, continues to mention God, with one personal testimony from a girl who said she thanked God after she chose not to have sex.
******* "We've been monitoring the website for a while," Joe Cook, the executive director of the Louisiana ACLU, told the New Orleans paper. "We thoroughly researched it, and we made the determination that the GPA had not only failed to correct the errors of its ways, as pointed out two years ago in the settlement, but in fact had gone out of its way to use taxpayer money to layer religious content upon religious content."
******* A spokesperson for Gov. Kathleen Blanco's office, Roderick Hawkins, said the website was being reviewed.
******* "Our concern is that the site comply with the agreement and the settlement of 2002," Hawkins told the paper. "That's what we're doing right now - making sure the site complies."
******* On the site's message board, one teenager poster mentioned God in her testimony:
******* "Virginity is something very special which we have been given by God and we can only have it once. When you give it to someone It'll be gone and you can never get it back no matter how rich you are. I'm so thankful to God for being with me and giving me the wise choice – to abstain. I'm 15 and so proud to be a virgin and I won't be sorry for that. I think one day my future husband'll be very happy for the decision which I made and he'll respect, trust me and feel secure with me."
******* AbstinenceEdu.com and the governor's program is financed with federal money.
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******* item 2 ACLU BATTLES SCHOOLS' WARNING OVER EVOLUTION
******* From: [email protected]
******* Mon, 22 Nov 2004
******* To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41443
******* � 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
******* Like a warning label on a pack of cigarettes, the Cobb County, Ga., textbook sticker says: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."
******* The Cobb County school board placed the disclaimer on the books two years ago after more than 2,000 parents complained the schools were not teaching about the controversy over evolution among scientists and not informing students of alternative theories.
******* Yesterday, however, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Michael Manely, representing parents who sued the suburban Atlanta school district over the textbook labeling, contended the school board is "doing more than accommodating religion. They are promoting religious dogma to all students."
******* U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper is expected to take at least a month to hand down a ruling.
******* A biology textbook author testified in the week-long trial, asserting the school is wrongly bringing religion into its teaching by questioning evolution, which he regards as the foundation for much of modern science.
******* However, a specialist on the legal aspects of teaching evolution maintains the ACLU is twisting the case, making it an issue of motives and not evidence.
******* "Perceived motives are irrelevant," said Seth Cooper, an attorney with the Seattle-based Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture. "Whether a parent in the community might be religious certainly has no bearing on whether neo-Darwinian and chemical evolutionary theories are supported by scientific data. But such motives are also largely irrelevant to the issues being decided by the judge in this case."
******* The Discovery Institute has been the biggest promoter of "intelligent design," a theory that the complexity and order of the universe and mankind suggest the action of an intelligent cause rather than random chance, without attempting to identify that cause.
******* Seth Cooper argues that First Amendment Establishment Clause cases, centered on religion in public life, should be about actions by governments and not parents, noting the stickers were adopted by the school board.
******* He pointed out that in an earlier order, Judge Cooper held he would not impute motives of parents to the school board in adopting the sticker.
******* The judge said the sticker had a dual secular purpose of promoting critical thinking and reducing parental offense in light of expanded evolution coverage in the science curriculum.
******* "Careful study and open-mindedness are part of good science education," said the attorney, who helped submit a friend-of-the-court brief in the case on behalf of 30 doctoral scientists.
******* "Why doesn't the ACLU want children to learn with an open mind?"
******* The brief highlights the scientific controversy surrounding neo-Darwinian and chemical evolutionary theories and the importance of critical thinking skills in science education.
******* The attorney Cooper said he hopes the judge's decision will reflect a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Edwards vs. Aguillard, which recognized it is permissible to teach "scientific critiques of prevailing scientific theories."
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******* item 3 ACLU PLANNING LAWSUIT OVER INTELLIGENT DESIGN THEORY
******* From: [email protected]
******* LAW OF THE LAND
******* School district requirES students to learn about alternatives to theory of evolution.
******* Posted: December 14, 2004
******* � 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
******* The American Civil Liberties Union will file a suit today challenging a Pennsylvania school district that teaches alternatives to the theory of evolution alongside Darwinism.
******* The Pennsylvania ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have scheduled a news conference for today to discuss the lawsuit against the Dover Area School District, the Associated Press reported. The suit was to be filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, Pa.
******* On Oct. 18, the Dover school board voted 6-3 to add the teaching of "intelligent design" to its ninth-grade biology curricula. Without identifying who the "designer" might be, the theory of intelligent design says the complexity and order of the universe and mankind suggest the action of an intelligent cause rather than random chance.
******* According to AP, school board member William Buckingham said he proposed the change as a way of balancing evolution with competing theories that raised questions about its scientific validity.
******* At the time the new policy was adopted, district officials said they would monitor Dover High School biology lessons "to make sure no one is promoting but also not inhibiting religion."
******* The ACLU, however, takes no comfort in that assurance and sees intelligence design as a mores secular form of creationism, the biblically based view of the Earth's origin. As such, AP reported, the legal group says the Dover policy violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
******* According to the news service, two of the three dissenting board members have resigned in protest.
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******* item 4 ONE REPORTER'S OPINION "ACLU: LEGAL TERRORISTS"
******* From: [email protected]
******* Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004
******* A more readable version of this article can be found at
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/27/195402.shtml
******* By George Putnam
******* It is this reporter's opinion that it is now time to fight back. The latest attack on America comes with the Pentagon's agreement to warn its bases not to sponsor Boy Scout troops in appeasement of the ACLU and thus end a five-year-old lawsuit that charged our government with improperly supporting a group promoting belief in God.
******* Our founding fathers and Lord Baden Powell, organizer of the Boy Scouts, must be rolling over in their graves!
******* The ACLU opposes the Boy Scouts because of their intolerance for people who don't embrace their values; and in the name of tolerance, the ACLU and those who consider the Boy Scouts subversive have no tolerance for the Boy Scouts or anyone else who disagrees with them.
******* Ever since I entered journalism, 70 years ago, this reporter has had a running battle with the ACLU. Take a look at the founding of the ACLU.
******* Roger Baldwin founded the ACLU in 1917 as the Bureau for Conscientious Objectors of the American Union Against Militarism. The name was changed to the Civil Liberties Bureau later that year when it became the National Civil Liberties Bureau after being raided by the FBI searching for evidence of subversive materials.
******* On November 11, 1918, Baldwin began serving a one-year term in a federal prison for sedition. Upon his release from prison in 1920, he renamed the organization the American Civil Liberties Union.
******* Roger Baldwin left no doubt as to the purpose of the ACLU. Here is his direct statement: "I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property." And he concluded, "COMMUNISM IS THE GOAL."
******* The ACLU has been described repeatedly as the "transmission belt of the Communist Party USA." It is an organization that needs to be isolated, exposed for what it does, recognized for what it is, and destroyed.
******* The ACLU supports legalization of child pornography, drugs and prostitution; tax exemption for Satanists; abortion on demand and mandatory sex education. The ACLU uses our court system to destroy the very moral fiber of America. And now the Boy Scouts of America is under attack. The ACLU, in its battle against our principles, uses blackmail and legal terrorism.
******* This reporter has participated in the Boy Scouts movement through the ranks since the age of 10 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, learning and living by the fact that a Boy Scout pledges to keep himself physically strong, morally straight and mentally alert - learning and living by the Boy Scout laws to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
******* These goals of the Scout movement are under siege. It is an internal warning that America's very way of life is being threatened.
******* Recently, 700 lawyers under the Alliance Defense Fund have said enough is enough, and they are fighting back. They have contacted over 3,600 school districts nationwide during this Christmas season; at no cost to the school districts, these lawyers are combating any attempts to censor the celebration of Christmas at schools and on school property.
******* The goal of the ADF Christmas project is to clear misconceptions about seasonal religious expression on public property. The ADF lawyers are explaining to those willing to join us in the fray that we are on firm ground:
******* The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled that public schools must ban the singing of religious Christmas carols or prohibit distribution of candy canes or Christmas cards.
******* School officials may refer to a school break in December as "Christmas vacation" without offending the Constitution.
******* School officials do not violate the Constitution by closing on religious holidays - Christmas and Good Friday.
******* No court has ever held that celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas as religious holidays requires recognition of all other religious holidays.
******* The "Three Reindeer Rule" used by the courts requires a municipality to place a sufficient number of secular objects in close enough proximity to the Christmas items to render the overall display sufficiently secular. Christmas displays are not banned as some believe that celebrating the holiday or promoting religion. What they are saying is that it's OK to say "Merry Christmas."
******* It is obvious that the ACLU will never change in its consistent intolerance of the American principles at the very core of our great country; therefore it becomes increasingly our responsibility to fight back wherever our American principles are violated, challenged by the ACLU - an organization that hates God, hates what is right and decent. The ACLU has got to go!
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******* item 5 ACLU FULFILLING COMMUNIST AGENDA by Devvy Kidd
******* From: [email protected]
******* Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005
******* To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41751
******* � 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
******* Every day, the headlines scream with some new threat from the American Civil Liberties Union. I believe it's important to look behind the curtain and discover the origins of groups and organizations to better understand their activities.
******* The ACLU was founded in the 1920s by Roger Baldwin and Crystal Eastman, described as a "progressive" and "the perfect feminist."
******* Earl Browder was general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its president. Browder proudly proclaimed that the ACLU functioned as "a transmission belt" for the party. To deny the ACLU's founding was attached at the hip to communist organizations is to deny what can easily be proven as truth.
******* For the past few decades, the ACLU has been on a major crusade to destroy Christianity in America, promote filth under "freedom of speech and expression," and of course, vigorously defend the homosexual culture of death. On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read a list of 45 communist goals into the Congressional Record. Below are the communist goals being implemented by the ACLU in their quest to destroy America's culture and traditions:
******* Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
******* Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
******* Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
******* Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
******* Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
******* Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television.
******* Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."
******* Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
******* Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
******* Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over. Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.
******* Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture: education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
******* Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
******* Anyone who has been following the destructive path of the ACLU can easily see how effective these communist goals have been implemented to "promote democracy" and protect your "civil rights." Lenin stated: "Communism alone is capable of providing really complete democracy." (See Tucker, "The Lenin Anthology"). James Madison, known as the "Father of the Constitution" had something different to say about a democracy:
******* Democracy is the most vile form of government ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
******* Perhaps it's time to recognize the ACLU as the American Communist Lawyers Union instead of their disingenuous "civil rights" stage name.
******* No organization can exist without memberships and funding. It is inconceivable to me how anyone who claims to be a Christian, lawyer or layman, could belong to such an anti-American organization as the ACLU. Burn your card and get out. Organizations like Working Assets, tobacco companies and big corporations all donate to the ACLU, which in turn uses that money to buy the favors of those who serve in Congress, who vote to unconstitutionally fund the activities of the ACLU under the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976.
******* If Americans really want to put the ACLU out of business, remove yourself as a member of their organization, boycott companies that donate to them and demand these public servants in Congress repeal the unconstitutional funding of this subversive organization.
******* There is no justification under Art. 1, Sec. 8, to steal from the people's treasury to give money to the ACLU or any other organization for "civil rights" lawsuits. Your Congress critter will be in your district during the month of December; make the most of it.
******* Devvy Kidd authored the booklet, "Why A Bankrupt America and Blind Loyalty," which has sold close to 2,000,000 copies. She has been a guest more than 1,600 times on radio shows, run for Congress twice and is a highly sought after public speaker.
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******* item 6 ACLU FOUNDER A COMMUNIST IDEOLOGUE BENT ON UPROOTING JEDEA-CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
******* From: Robert A Jason
The following warning is a prophetic message given to me, Frank Wagner, in November of 1974. ******* LISTEN TO THE CRY OF THE ABORTED CHILDREN. THEIR CRY IS NO. THEIR CRY IS A CRY OF TERROR. HEED THEIR CRY. ******* This prophecy is now being fulfilled. ******* For details about the source, meaning and fulfillment of this prophetic message go to ******* http://ca.geocities.com/fwagner4/index.html ******* email me at *** [email protected] ***
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