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Ann Coulter ()
June 15, 2001
DISESTABLISH THE CULT OF LIBERALISM
This week the Supreme Court upheld the right of religious
groups to participate in the beautiful mosaic of after-school
activities. No new territory was broken: The case was almost
identical to another case in which the Supreme Court reversed
the exact same court years ago. This was massive resistance.
Justice Clarence Thomas remarked on the oddity of having to
reverse the same court twice, noting that while the appellate
courts aren't required to cite all the Supreme Court's
precedents, they might want to cite the last time they were
reversed on the same facts.
At least the 6-3 decision gives us an accurate count of the
atheists on the court, probably as accurate as my dream of
giving them all polygraph tests someday. ("Do you believe in a
Higher Being ... no, seriously.") Concerned someone might be
reading Leviticus during school hours, Justice David Souter
dissented in a hair-splitting exegesis about the precise time
classes let out (2:56 p.m.), vs. the time the organizers would
enter school property (2:30 p.m.).
The New York Times' obligatory hysterical denunciation of the
decision revealingly complained: "(C)hildren that young are
unlikely to discern that the religious message of authority
figures who come to the school each day to teach does not
carry the school's endorsement."
It is simply taken for granted that it's desirable for
children to revere "authority figures" at government schools.
Normally those authority figures are teaching the youngsters
to put condoms on zucchini or training them in the catechism
of recycling. Sending a mixed message about government
"authority figures" might interfere with the state's ability
to turn small children into Good Germans inculcated in the
liberal religion.
It's well past time for liberalism to be declared a religion
and banned from public schools. Allowing Christians to be one
of many after-school groups induces hysteria not just because
liberals hate religion. It's because the public school is
their temple. Children must be taught to love Big Brother,
welcoming him to take over our schools, our bank accounts, our
property, even our toilet bowls.
We're told the First Amendment requires a separation of church
and state, which, just as an incidental matter, is completely
false. The whole point of the Constitution is to separate the
federal government from the individual.
In keeping with the general theme, the First Amendment
provides that Congress cannot establish a religion -- but nor
can it stop the states from establishing religions. That's why
it says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion." Dear Congress: You may be eligible
for a free country. You do nothing.
The only thing that tempers my annoyance with the canard about
states not being allowed to establish religions is imagining
the kind of established religion we'd have in New York. We'd
be doing daily devotionals to Saint Hillary.
Still, it is a fact that when the First Amendment was
ratified, several states had established religions.
Fortunately for the burgeoning minority religions in those
states, the established religions were things like
"Episcopalianism" and "Congregationalism" rather than
"Liberalism."
It's hard to imagine now, but before the official government
religion was liberalism -- devoted to class warfare, ethnic
hatred and intolerance -- Americans were kind to one another.
They managed to get along even without ACLU lawsuits. Thus,
when there were enough practitioners of other faiths in a
state to be bothered by the established religion, the majority
just disestablished themselves.
Back to the New Country: Two malcontents at the Virginia
Military Institute recently sued to ban VMI's tradition of
saying a non-denominational prayer at mealtime. The cadets are
not required to recite the prayer or even bow their heads.
Merely having to stand while listening to an invocation of God
is apparently very upsetting for them. (I'd hate to see these
guys under fire.)
A typical rendition of the VMI dinner prayer goes like this:
"Almighty God, we give our thanks for VMI, for its reputation,
spirit and ideals. Let your favor continue toward our school
and your grace be abundantly supplied to the Corps. Now, O
God, we receive this food and share this meal together with
thanksgiving."
It doesn't get any more sectarian than that. How about:
"Designer of the Universe (if you're out there) ..."
Religious people keep cheerfully going back and trying to
formulate some prayer that won't make liberals angry. But the
problem won't go away. No prayer that assumes a belief in a
Higher Being will ever be acceptable. God has no part in the
religion of sex education, environmentalism, feminism, Marxism
and loving Big Brother.
In a totally unsurprising development, liberals finally
suspended their opposition to the death penalty in the case of
Timothy McVeigh. He was the sworn enemy of the established
religion of Big Brother. Too bad he never stumbled into one of
those after-school Christian meetings.
©2001 Universal Press Syndicate
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