ACLU v. Gideons

From Agape Press...

The Gideons has been singled out in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, which claims that last fall two Gideons representatives were permitted to address fifth-graders during class time and then distribute New Testaments to them -- an action the ACLU says is unconstitutional. The lawsuit seeks an injunction prohibiting the South Iron Schools from continuing to allow outside visitors into their classrooms for religious purposes.

Orlando-based Liberty Counsel has joined with conservative author and commentator David Limbaugh in defending South Iron against the lawsuit. Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, says the attacks against the school district are unfounded.

"An open access policy under the First Amendment requires that you treat religious speech equally," Staver explains. "The ACLU may not like the idea that they have to treat religious speech equally, but the fact of the matter is the Constitution demands it. So we're now defending this ACLU lawsuit which we believe, frankly, is frivolous."

Beyond that consideration, Liberty Counsel has added motivation to be involved in the case, says the attorney. "I think it's important to stand up in this particular case because if the ACLU had its way, it would literally shut down religious speech; it would be discriminating intentionally against religious speech, whereas all the other forms of secular expression have their way in the marketplace," says Staver.

So I ask myself, what would have happened if, when I was in school, I had been given a copy of the Quran or of the Book of Mormon. I can't see that it really would have caused any harm. The Gideons don't preach, they don't proselytize in the since of trying to convince kids to become Christians. They simply hand out Bibles. But that's what the ACLU hates. You can show kids porn, you can tell them lies about how 10% are supposed to be homosexual, you can even proselytize for the religion of Evolution, but you'd better never mention anything favorable about Christianity, and especially never expose kids to the Bible.

In other words, they're leftist, anti-Christian hypocrites.

Posted by Danny Carlton at August 23, 2006 12:11 PM