Secular Sabotage by William A. Donohue

Author:William A. Donohue [DONOHUE, WILLIAM A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL084000
ISBN: 9780446558228
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2009-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Secularists Unmasked

None of the antireligious organizations will admit that their real agenda is to drive religion from the public square and to weaken it in general. They prefer to hide behind a professed loyalty to the First Amendment. But their real motives are not hard to discern.

If fidelity to the First Amendment is what counts, how does one explain why the ACLU, the ADL, and American Atheists have a huge problem with a nativity scene on public property but not a menorah? 39 When questioned about the disparate treatment, ACLU attorney Deborah Lieberman spun the issue by saying the menorah was small in size and located in an inconspicuous spot. 40 It’s a sure bet, however, that the ACLU would object to a miniature nativity scene placed behind a tree. Americans United is just as slippery.

In 2000, a pornographic homosexual film festival, Reel Affirmations X, was held in Washington, D.C. Among the sponsors was Americans United. When asked what this had to do with its mission, Lynn said, “We oftentimes lend support to organizations which have a constituency sympathetic to our goals and objectives.” 41 In other words, those who promote gay porn are seen as sympathetic to the goals and objectives of Americans United. How telling. None of this is by happenstance: before Lynn took over at Americans United, he directed the Washington office of the ACLU, and one of his pet projects was to push for the legalization of pornography. Reverend Lynn even went so far as to defend the sale and distribution of child pornography, along with the rights of masochists. 42 Given this pedigree, it is hardly surprising to learn that Americans United is a big fan of gay marriage (not exactly a church and state issue, at least not yet).

The First Amendment does not apply to the private workplace, yet that didn’t stop Americans United from blasting the Catholic League when it called for a boycott of Wal-Mart in 2005. The dispute was over the department store’s neutering of Christmas that year and had absolutely nothing to do with separation of church and state. Hence, it should have been of no interest to Americans United. Yet a year after the short-lived boycott was triggered, Lynn was still burning mad: he said that when places like Wal-Mart “cave into these demands, they are really making a statement that non-Christians should probably go elsewhere this holiday season.” 43 Evidently, it is simply not possible for Christians to celebrate anything without angering non-Christians. Either that, or the underlying assumption—that all non-Christians are bigots—is a contrived and phony excuse to assault Christianity.

Another giveaway is when the secular saboteurs get angry with groups like the Catholic League for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. That is why People for the American Way was upset with the Catholic League’s protest of Corpus Christi. Its rally in defense of the First Amendment was positively absurd. What exactly did it think the Catholic League’s demonstration was all about? 44 A year

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