Separation of Civil Rights Church and State by Jan Ireland

Separation of Civil Rights Church and State

By Jan Ireland

January 19, 2004

The idea that the Constitution requires a separation of church and state has reached urban myth status in America. Democrats, liberals, atheists, secular humanists, socialists, communists, and marxists all believe this separation exists. Which is why I'm absolutely sure that we can undoubtedly expect certain things to happen this month and next in churches around the nation. The ACLU will join with each of these groups in calling for the immediate cancellation of Martin Luther King, Jr., political events planned to take place in churches around America. And they will threaten to sue, solely in order to protect the First Amendment of course, if immediate compliance is not the knee-jerk reaction.

In addition, they will also publicly and decidedly enjoin the Reverend Jesse Jackson from using tax-free funds (donated with alacrity in large amounts from large corporations to Jesse's large religious groups) for political activities. They will also immediately inform the Reverend Al Sharpton (called to a lifetime of preaching at the tender age of five, supported for years by love offerings from churches, now going about his duty running for president of the United States) that he must not make political speeches in churches, as he runs for the democrat presidential nomination.

The ACLU has stated that the First Amendment is their primary client, so no doubt they will extend the notification to other democrat presidential wannabes (especially Howard Dean who has only recently found Jesus, along with Job in the New Testament). We'll have to exempt the ACLU from dealing with all the past offenses by liberals and democrats. The sheer number of cases (just about every known or would-be-known democrat from peon to president) would overwhelm even the ACLU's well-funded resources.

Of course all these liberal democrats will comply with the ACLU's instructions on separating civil rights church and state. That they are being told to stop doing something they've been doing for years won't occasion any resistance.

Look how they've applauded the ACLU in removing even the mention of God from public. Look how they agreed to replace prayer in school with a moment of silence, and quickly changed that to no moment of anything. Note their enthusiasm for the ACLU removing the Ten Commandments monument from Judge Roy Moore's Alabama rotunda. And aren't they noticeably happier since Christmas was replaced by Winter Break?

I'm sure none of the above groups want to be labeled…hypocrites. So we're sure to see immediate, unquestioning compliance.

Of course, being told to stop doing something they really think is right - do you think it might make them go out and read a copy of the Constitution?

If they did they would find "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…"

What would they make of the First Amendment then? I bet you they'd start saying there is no separation of church and state in the Constitution, and so no separation of civil rights church and state. They'd even start pulling out coins and dollar bills to prove it.