1. “‘Separation of church and state’ is not in the Constitution.”
   
2. “Christmas is an important part of our cultural heritage and should be respected.”
   
3. “Ninety-five percent of Americans celebrate Christmas anyway.”
   
4. “The last time I checked, the holiday was Christmas.”
   
5. And, of course, “Jesus is too the Reason for the Season!”, etc.

Recommended Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter

1 ON THE SEVENTH DAY, GOD RESTED AND LIBERAL SCHEMED

They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator. . . . Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature.

--Romans 1:25-26

Liberals love to boast that they are not “religious,” which is what what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as “religion.”

Under the guise of not favoring religion, liberals favor one cosmology over another and demand total indoctrination into theirs. The state religion of liberalism demands obeisance (to the National Organization for Women), tithing (to teachers' unions), reverence (for abortion), and formulaic imprecations (“Bush lied, kids died!” “Keep your laws off my body!” “Arms for hostages!”) Everyone is taxed to support indoctrination into the state religion through the public schools, where innocent children are taught a specific belief system, rather than, say, math.

Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah's ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while the Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law. As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not. If people are born gay, why hasn't Darwinism [sic; Darwinian evolution?] weeded out people who don't reproduce? (For that, we need of theory of survival of the most fabulous.) And if gays can't change, why do liberals think child-molesters can? Pedophilia is a sexual preference. If they're born that way, instead of rehabilitation, how about keeping them locked up? Why must children be taught that recyling is the only answer? Why aren't we teaching children “safe littering”?

Recommended Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is set to release her most controversial book ever.

In Godless: The Church of Liberalism, she shows convincingly that liberal hostility to traditional religion stems from the fact that liberalism is itself a religion — a godless one. And, she shows how, thanks to the liberals who dominate our courts, our government bureaucracies, our schools, and our media, liberalism is now the established religion of our country.

10. U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton

1995 decision that denied the peoples of the states the right to set term limits on their congressional representatives even though the Constitution is silent on term limits and the 10th Amendment leaves to the states and the people powers that the Constitution does not explicitly give to the federal government or expressly deny to the states.


9. Baker v. Carr

1962 decision that laid the groundwork for the “one man, one vote” standard ending county representation in state legislatures and forcing states, unlike the U.S. Senate, to redistrict based solely on population.


8. Plyer v. Doe

1982 decision that said that the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause requires state governments to provide public education to illegal aliens.


7. Grutter v. Bollinger

2003 decision that said the University of Michigan Law School could use race as a factor in admissions so it could achieve a “critical mass” of a particular racial group.


6. Wickard v. Filburn

1942 decision that said Congress could regulate a farmer’s growing of wheat for his own use on his own property under the constitutional language that authorizes Congress to regulate commerce “among the several states.”


5. McConnell v. Federal Election Commission

2003 decision that upheld the McCain-Feingold law’s prohibitions on political speech.


4. Berman v. Parker

1954 case that said the District of Columbia could seize a department store and hand it over to a private developer to redevelop a “blighted” neighborhood, even though the department store itself wasn’t “blighted.” Decision set the stage for the 2005 Kelo v. New London decision allowing government to take property other than for direct “public use.”


3. Everson v. Board of Education

1947 decision that said 1st Amendment Establishment Clause erected a “wall of separation” between church and state. Precursor to the 1971 Lemon v. Kurtzman decision that created a three-pronged test for when “wall of separation” was breached and led to cases such as McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, which prohibited the posting of the 10 Commandments in a courthouse.


2. Lawrence v. Texas

2003 decision that declared same-sex sodomy a constitutional right, creating the rationale for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to declare a right to same-sex marriage.


1. Roe v. Wade

1973 decision that declared abortion-on-demand a constitutional right, overturning the abortion laws of the states, and led to further abominations such as Stenberg v. Carhart, which declared partial birth abortion a constitutional right.

Recommended The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The casting was spot on. The four pensive [sic] children were perfect. Tilda Swinton as The White witch topnotch [sic]. But also the movie has an overt chritin tiklt [sic] to it and i dontlik [sic] being preached too. Seperation [sic] of church and state folks[.]

• The movie theater, a privately-owned business, is unfairly not regulated by government laws or censors who will ensure that Religious Neutrality is maintained (as defined by those who are by their own religion, “neutral”). Therefore the movie’s Christian elements unfairly establish religion, contrary to the First Amendment.
  
  
• The New Zealand government allowed filming of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in its country. The U.S. government has diplomatic relations with the New Zealand government. Therefore the U.S. government has violated the separation of church and state.
  
  
• Disney financed the film. Disney owns Florida. Florida is part of the United States government. Therefore the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe film violates the separation of church and state.
  
  
• a. People who go to movies are sometimes on welfare. b. Those people pay for the tickets with their welfare money. c. That welfare is provided by the U.S. government. d. Therefore the U.S. government directly funds much of the profits of the producers of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and they unfairly push religious symbolisms on those who disagree with them.
  
  
• a. William Goldman wrote the book and screenplay for the oddball cult classic The Princess Bride. b. Goldman also wrote the screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. c. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid heavily involves the Western frontier. d. The Western frontier was colonized, in part, thanks to the efforts by the 19th century U.S. government. e. The 21st-century U.S. government is a direct successor to the 19th-century U.S. government. f. Hollywood is part of California. g. California is part of the Old West, which again was colonized, in part, by the U.S. government’s bureaucratic ancestor. h. Many people in California work as digital effects artists for Industrial Light and Magic, Sony Imageworks and Rhythm and Hues. i. Those are the primary visual effects studios for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. j. Therefore the showing of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a film with clear Hollywood and Western frontier influence aided and abetted by the federal government, is violating the Constitutionally-mandated separation of church and state. Part Two: k. The Princess Bride director Rob Reiner and producer Norman Lear give money to the Democrat Party. l. The Democrat Party consists of Democrats. m. Democrats are part of the U.S. government. n. Therefore again, the showing of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe violates the First Amendment’s “wall of separation” between church and state and the federal government should get out of the religion business.

Kentucky Academy of Science Calls for Rejection of Attempts To Teach ‘Intelligent Design’ as a Scientific Theory

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. —

During the recent Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) Annual Meeting, members voted unanimously to oppose any attempt by legislative bodies to mandate specific content of science courses. The KAS objects to attempts to equate “scientific creationism” or “intelligent design” with evolution as a scientific explanation of events.

ELIZABETHTOWN [Ky.] — Officials in Hardin County are considering the possibility of putting the Ten Commandments on display.

The Fiscal Court has approved a motion asking the county attorney to draft a resolution that would “authorize the display of the Ten Commandments alongside other historical documents on designated county-owned property and buildings.”

Magistrate Roy Easter, who proposed the motion, said the county has historical documents spread out in different county buildings. Easter said he would like to see the display, which also would include the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, placed somewhere in the courthouse.

Easter said his decision to bring up the issue was spurred by a recent court decision that upheld Mercer County's right to keep its display of the Ten Commandments.

The ruling by a three-judge panel for the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision that found the display was constitutionally acceptable because other historical documents were included.

Mercer County can keep its display of the Ten Commandments, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The display, which includes documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta, was clearly historic and did not promote religion, the three-judge panel ruled.

Tuesday's decision came just six months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that McCreary and Pulaski counties can not display the Ten Commandments. Those displays went too far in endorsing religion, the majority wrote.

The ACLU’s argument contains three fundamental flaws. First, the ACLU makes repeated reference to “the separation of church and state.” This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state. [Multiple cases cited.] [. . .] Our Nation’s history is replete with governmental acknowledgment and in some cases, accommodation of religion. [More cases and reason.] [. . .] After all, “[w]e are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.” Zorach, 343 U.S. at 313. Thus, state recognition of religion that falls short of endorsement is constitutionally permissible.

Third, the ACLU erroneously –- though perhaps intentionally -– equates recognition with endorsement. To endorse is necessarily to recognize, but the converse does not follow.

This Christmas, I’d like more common-sense ‘holiday’ marketing

- Hanukkah — a Jewish celebration based on the Maccabees’ successful revolt against the Syrian despot Antiochus, during the period between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. The eight-day celebration is based on the legendary temple menorah that had barely any oil, but burned for eight days and nights.

- Kwanzaa — an African symbol-intensive occasion whose “symbols, values and practice” should not be mixed “with any other culture,” according to the Official Kwanzaa Web site. That kind of makes marketing it difficult and disrespectful anyway.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Jeb Bush is encouraging Florida schoolchildren to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a parable of the New Testament gospels, for a contest timed with the release of the movie version by a company owned by a prominent Republican donor.

The $150 million film opens Dec. 9, and three sets of winners will get a private screening in Orlando, two nights at a Disney resort, a dinner at Medieval Times and a copy of the C.S. Lewis children's novel signed by Jeb and Columba Bush.

[. . .]

“This whole contest is just totally inappropriate because of the themes of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” said Barry Lynn, director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. “It is simply a retelling of the story of Christ.”

[. . .]

Lynn, a Unitarian minister, said he loves the book as well as the others in the Narnia series because of their Christian themes, but believes it is wrong for the government to sponsor a contest that essentially promotes one religion.

“This would be like asking children to watch the movie The Passion of the Christ and to write an essay with the winner getting a trip to Rome,” he said.

Dr. Warren D. Allmon [. . .] has written a manual to help train volunteers called Evolution and Creationism: Guide for Museum Docents.

This guide is posted on the front page of the museum’s website for wide distribution, and training sessions are planned nationwide.

[. . .]

But the sad fact

is that the guidebook merely repeats a host of faulty arguments, all of which have been exposed in creation literature for years. But the training material does not have the honesty to inform docents about these resources. For example, the Guide’s resource list includes the National Academy of Sciences’ Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science (1998), but it does not include any creation books, such as Dr. Jonathan Sarfati’s Refuting Evolution, which ably demolished the bad logic of the book.

Because Darwin’s Theory is a theory, it is still being tested as new evidence is discovered. The Theory is not a fact. Gaps in the Theory exist for which there is no evidence. A theory is defined as a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations.

Intelligent design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin’s view. The reference book, Of Pandas and People is available for students to see if they would like to explore this view in an effort to gain an understanding of what intelligent design actually involves. As is true with any theory, students are encouraged to keep an open mind.

Like most religion-inspired emotional appeals, Scott's arguments will likely only work for those already committed to this doctrine of absolute “separation of church and state”: a doctrine that necessitates God-fearing people acting one way publicly in certain areas and days of the week, then going to church or whatever on Sundays and acting all religious.

Furthermore, strict division between actions motivated by faith and bureaucracy is an interesting approach to take during a time in which floundering government disaster relief could use all the help it can get from those annoying religious organizations. But then, government's involvement with them would be “endorsing” religion, according to Scott's viewpoints.

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FEMA Plans to Reimburse Faith Groups for Aid
As Civil Libertarians Object, Religious Organizations Weigh Whether to Apply

After weeks of prodding by Republican lawmakers and the American Red Cross, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday that it will use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious organizations that have opened their doors to provide shelter, food and supplies to survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

“What really frosts me about all this is, here is an administration that didn't do its job and now is trying to dig itself out by making right-wing groups happy,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.