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| ACLU Head Likens Praying School Board Members to 9/11 Terrorists |
| 2005-08-17 |
| "Christians. Why do they hate us?" ACLU Head Likens Praying School Board Members to 9/11 Terrorists BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, August 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) â An American Civil Liberties Union director equated school board members who pray before their meetings with 9/11 al-Qaida terrorists. In comments made on camera to local WAFB-TV, Joe Cook of the ACLU of Louisiana said, âThey believe that they answer to a higher power, in my opinion,â referring to school board members who want to maintain the right to begin school board meetings with prayer. Answering to a âhigher powerâ âis the kind of thinking that you had with the people who flew the airplanes into the buildings in this country, and the people who did the kind of things in London,â he maintained. It is also the kind of thinking that led many thousands of Christians to risk torture and death to hide Jews in their homes during the heyday of the Third Reich. Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel Mike Johnson welcomed Cookâs comments as evidence of how extreme the ACLU really is. âIt shows the ACLU has become more and more extreme and marginalized,â he said, as reported by WorldNetDaily.com. âSo, to that extent, I like it when he talks, because he simply reveals who they are.â Johnson explained that the ACLU comes âacross as champions of liberty, but the truth of the matter is they are extremists. It's clear in a number of recent cases that the ACLU of Louisiana wants to impose a radical form of secularism that the Constitution doesn't require, and frankly, that people of this state are not willing to accept,â he added. The ACLU is representing the parents of two students from the Tangipahoa Parish district, who sued the school board, claiming that prayer before board meetings was unconstitutional. The board is appealing a federal judge who agreed with the parents, ruling that prayer at the meetings violates the US Constitution. The school board argues that the prayer is not discriminatory, because anyone of any religious perspective is free to lead the prayers. See Joe Cook deliver his wacky statement, as broadcast by WAFB-TV: http://www.jharrisdesigns.com/JoeCook'sCommentsTangipahoa.wmv tv I admit that I have not been paying as much attention as usual to the news, but I think I might have noticed if these school board types had massacred 3000 people and set off a worldwide celebration by their co-religionists. Was there a string about it here at Rantburg? Did Dubya make a speech? Have we attacked the Bible Belt? I live in Lubbock, the veritable buckle of that belt, and I ama trained military observer. I think I might have noticed if we were under attack by US forces. I can feed them a juicy target list, though, if their agents will just get in touch. Seriously, I am an agnostic and I oppose school prayer, but this is beyond the pale, rank idiocy. |
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