I have stated on a number of occasions that there is no separation clause in the Constitution. The ACLU and those opposed to religion in government have skewed the words of the Constitution to fit in their leftist agenda. We are told by the left that they are the party of tolerance and that the right is the party that is intolerant of everyone who is different. This was demonstrated over at Lost Adam’s site when he quoted a remark by someone who was Hispanic, had six unruly children, and was getting $400 worth of prescriptions on the taxpayer through social welfare. I think Adam reads in to what the person was saying as I did not read anywhere that the person thought they were illegals though I am sure the implication was they very well could be. I’ll leave that to the reader to decide. The point is that the left is supposed to be the party of tolerance. Why is it then that they will not allow us to display the Ten Commandments in a court house (despite the fact they adorn the doors of the Supreme Court)? Why is it that any mention of God or Jesus or any other religious reference in a government venue will draw the ire of the groups who believe in this erroneous idea of separation?
Why is it that when a few terrorists make a claim that their Koran was desecrated the left jumps all over this like it was the kid with the ball in a game of smear the queer? I mean, here we have terrorists, who are not Americans, being held in US government buildings. We give them a Koran. We give them a prayer mat. We give them directions to Mecca (as was pointed out by Surfside) and we allow them to practice their religion. Now I believe that all people should be allowed to practice religion whether or not they are incarcerated. What I want to know is why the left and the ACLU are not up in arms about the government interfering with religion. Let us assume for a moment that there actually is a separation clause. Why then are these terrorists given a Koran by the government? No separation there. Why do we go out of our way to honor their religious practices but go out of our way to deny AMERICANS who are not terrorists their rights? Why is it that the terrorists can have signs pointing them to Mecca but Americans can not have the Ten Commandments pointing them in the right moral direction?
Now I don’t believe the terrorists over our service members for a minute. Unlike the left, I give the benefit of the doubt to our guys. But if these things took place were not the soldiers just acting upon the wishes of the left in America? They were making a separation between the church (mosque) and the federal government. After all, why should these terrorists be allowed more rights than the Americans they would just as soon kill in the name of their peaceful religion?
If Newsweek really wanted to have a great story how about they write about how our folks in uniform are upholding the erroneous idea of separation of church and state. How about they write that the military is pushing the left’s liberal agenda on the terrorists. Kind of makes you wonder, if the left’s agenda is not good enough for the bad guys, why is it so good for us?
In a related story:
The Supreme Court sided with a witch, a Satanist and a racial separatist Tuesday, upholding a federal law requiring state prisons to accommodate the religious affiliations of inmates.
I guess it just goes to show that terrorists and criminals are allowed religious freedom and can have it sponsored by the government but the rest of us are only allowed to sit back while our freedoms erode.