[TheRealThing]

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The ACLU is a hate group and should be defined as one if they want others to be labeled that way. They should be torn apart and stomped on.

The ACLU is responsible for establishing the legal cover for the modern day distorted view regarding the separation of Church and State. An ACLU lawyer presented an argument before the SCOTUS in 1947 that contradicted the understanding of conventional wisdom, which until then represented that it is the State which is limited from poking it's nose into the affairs to the Church, and not the other way around.

The new argument which holds that law limits the Church, has had the effect of separating the government of the US from the moral authority to govern. Ironically, after surviving against all odds to become a nation of our own, and after winning two world wars and becoming the world's premier Super Power, in 1948 we Americans suddenly found ourselves divested of the guiding force which had ensured our own greatness. That being God's Law. After all, our legal system is based on the precepts of God, and so are our notions of personal responsibility and equality. Incredibly, even though the first words of the US Declaration of Independence openly affirms the founder's belief that man is endowed with certain unalienable rights "by his Creator", those of the ACLU ilk still deny our society's own faith based foundations.

The Letter----

Letter to the Danbury Baptists

January 1, 1802

To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.


Gentlemen

"The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem."


Th. Jefferson
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The highlighted text above is the only part of the Danbury Letter, which I have presented here in it's entirety, that deals with the idea of separation between Church and State. Even the phrase "building a wall of separation between Church and State" has practical meaning as to what is being separated from what. Common for the cities of the ancients, all the way up until European cities of the 1900's, and in modern times where military fortresses are yet concerned, men have built walls around themselves to keep out things that threaten the good of the people. You don't build a wall around the enemy, you build the wall around that which you hold dear and defend them from that perspective. The quintessential example in my mind would be the walled city of Jerusalem. To others the walls of Troy may come to mind.

Thus, anybody whose mind is not clouded with prejudice can clearly see that it is the legislature which is limited from interfering with the affairs of the Church lying safely within those walls of protection as envisioned by Jefferson. It is not the Church which is limited from interfering with the affairs of State owing to being held out by jack booted political correct police who diligently man security gates to the temple of government. And yet, as is the case with all clever lawyers who use guile and persuasion to win an argument, SC Justice Hugo Black was completely converted by the argument proffered by ACLU lawyer Leo Piffer and America has suffered under an ever more dense cloud of confusion ever since. Once you leave the path, the only way to find your way again is to find that path again. Never, will the liberal admit he was wrong, we must as a people therefore decide if we are going to continue to follow the liberal's grope through the hopeless fog.

Where we once stood as a proud people living in shining alabaster cities on a hill, we are now bereft of meaningful purpose, having turned our backs on God and as such are left with only our petty grievances of racial tolerance and social justice from which to claim the authority to govern and adjudicate. That is why we have endless debate about what is right and what is wrong. And that is why we have congressional gridlock. Where there is not the authority of God, there remains only the argument of men. How small we have become, we lack the authority to govern because we forgot who we are and Who made this land great. The Lord.

Friends, that is why I would vote for Trump if nominated, and that is certainly why I will vote for Cruz if nominated.