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BS. The Amendment has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with a delusion of a supernatural being involving itself in the workings of a civil society of intelligent and focused humans. It merely recites that those who are so inclined can do their silliness without interference from the Government, and everyone can shoot off their mouth with whatever they might wish. Can we begin to imagine what problems this Amendment has caused in our society?

The ACLU has never rewritten this Amendment, but has used it to further the causes of those who would be denied the benefits of the Amendment by persons like yourself who think it was intended only for you and people who think like you. You see, that is the very essence of why it was placed in the Amendments, to protect from people like yourself who think your "rights" are superior to other's "rights". If any were given the opportunity to determine "rights" and "wrongs" of speech or religious beliefs, then corruption would be unavoidable.

Suppose we told the Elders of the Mormon Church they could decide "rights" and acceptable "speech"? Would the Catholic Church or the Southern Baptist Church be satisfied with that? How about the Seventh Day Adventists? Could we buy a cup of coffee on Saturday, or on Sunday, or buy a cup of coffee any day of the week? The Founders recognized that religious zealots and loudmouths are somewhat insane people who may believe their delusions so firmly as to be a source of trouble making and violence, so the best solution to their troubled minds is to assure all of them the right to do as they please. Hence, this Amendment.

I believe you can prove the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. There is no tooth fairy to remove the tooth and replace it with $5 that took humn intervention. Your daughter will understand this when she gets older.

However the point is our constitution was written in such a way that my belief is just as valuable as yours in that neither one of us should be harassed or hurt because of our belief. In addition if we did not acknowledge this than our constitution is worthless and socialism / communism / the New World Order which mandates every single right you have perhaps even your thoughts comes from government (man).

The ACLU began in 1917 as the National Civil Liberties Bureau to defend WWI draftees who claimed deferment as conscientious objectors. Founder Roger Baldwin was a member of the Communist Party who spent 9 months in prison for refusing to report for his own draft physical exam. In 1920, the bureau reorganized as the American Civil Liberties Union supposedly to defend civil rights. But one of its chief goals was the rejection of God and religion. Embracing atheism and a materialistic view of life, the ACLU undermined those absolute rights that Thomas Jefferson declared had come from God. By denying the existence of God, the ACLU denied the source of our rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When the acknoledgment of God is removed from public life, life itself is not defined as a gift of God, but it begins when government says it does. That is the reason why we have such immoral procedures as partial birth abortion.

According to the ACLU judges are represetatives of the state and the state is not supposed to support a religion of any sort.

Thomas Jefferson stated in the very first sentence of the Declaration of Independence that America is entiled to exist as a power on earth because of the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." As John Quincy Adams, the 6th president of the US, later explained, "The laws of nature and nature's God ... of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society of government." Jefferson and John Quincy Adams agreed the God's law formed the bases for America's law and government.

Jefferson went on to say in the Declaration that it was self-evident that God was our Creator, and the grantor of rights such as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and that the only role of government was to secure those rights for us. A government that did not effectively secure those rights was to be abolished.

The US Constitution does not give the federal government the power to censor a state's acknowledgment of God.

Our constitution was written in such a way as to secure the rights of conscience, and a free exercise of the rights of religion, not to patronize those who profess no religion at all.

The ACLU has no hesitation suing over something even if it just looks or appears "religous" even by its shape.

"So Help Me God"
by Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Roy Moore

You should pick it up sometime.

You reveal that you haven't read much of the works of the "Founding Fathers", but quote the propaganda that religious zealots often use to claim their "rights" as superior to the "rights" of all others. Jefferson didn't draft the Declaration of Independence although he probably helped edit it. He left dozens of letters in which he revealed his opinion that religions, the delusion of a "God", and other prattling of religious sorts, were borderlines of insanity and needed to be kept far away from the governance of civil authority.

The Constitution clearly forbids Government from sponsoring or
encouraging any religion or the practice of any religion. Knowing that the dozens of "Gods" out there and the hundreds of sects and bands of "believers" would never cease to cause troubles and conflicts with their endless arguments about whose "God" was the right one and best, the First Amendment provides that all of them can do whatever they want so long as they keep their nonsense away from the civil governance. That is the position that the ACLU defends, to keep the zealots away from the halls of Government and preserve the rights of all to do with their delusions as they see fit.

I don't seek to defend all of the positions that ACLU has undertaken in it's history. But, without it, we probably would all be living under the rules made by the Catholic Church, the Dallas Theological Seminary or in a state of fear of the Police. They once provided me with a brief and defended a matter in which the State of California sought to impose a terribly punitive penalty in favor of police errors and brutality. The wise Judge said "Legislature sometimes has head stuck in a dark place, and this is the result. Case dismissed"