Just reading the two statements above should wake up the Christians on both the left and right! And after learning this myself, the question came to me….how could anyone say this organization is not anti-Christian? I know all of you are wanting to see the evidence yourself, and while I don’t have the official policy to refer you to, I have learned this information from a very well respected author, William A. Donahue, in his book Twilight of Libery/The Legacy of The ACLU. Donahue has attained their policy guide and is one of the most trusted experts on the ACLU.
So let the story telling begin….
We will start out with the ACLU’s official policy on the tax exemption of Churches. Policy #92, “Religious Bodies’ Tax Exemption”…it states, “The ACLU opposes the tax-exemption of all churches…”Source
During the 1988 presidential campaign the ACLU was brought under the spotlight. Michael Dukakis, the democrat nominee, proudly stated,
“I’m a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union.”
These words would soon come back to haunt him. I will not focus too much on this campaign other than using it as evidence of the ACLU’s position on the tax exemption of churches. However, Dukakis’s association with this group proved to be a major factor in his defeat.
During the first debate, Peter Jennings of ABC asked George Bush why he continued to make an issue out of Dukakis’s membership in the ACLU. Bush replied that he didn’t like most of the ACLU’s positions and offered four of them. We will just focus on the one we are talking about right now. Bush said,
“I don’t think they’re right to try to take away the tax exemption of the Catholic Church.”
The ACLU don’t deny their position! Norman Dorsen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to 1991, refuted Bush’s statements, and said that the ACLU opposes tax exemption for all churches, not just the Catholic Church.Source
Here is a little more history on the issue from Twilight of Liberty.
“ACLU founder Roger Baldwin once told me that the ACLU’s desire to strip the churches of their tax exempt status was “very foolish.” But in 1969, some nineteen years after Baldwin stepped down as executive director, the Union adopted its first policy opposing “tax exemption for church property which is used exclusively for religious purposes.’ In the latest policy on this subject, it makes no difference to the Union whether church property is not used exclusively for religious purposes, all are denied: “The ACLU opposes tax benefits for religious bodies”, seven examples are listed for clarification, including the benefit of tax exemption.”Source
“In 1970, the year after the ACLU issued its first policy opposing the tax exempt status for churches, it accepted the advice of church and state extremist Leo Pfeffer and drafted a brief opposing tax exemptions in Waltz v. Tax Commission. In 1987, the ACLU Foundation and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in support of Abortion Rights Mobilization to secure standing in a suit challenging the tax exempt status of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was charged with violating its tax-exempt status by taking a stand against abortion.”Source
Meanwhile with the Witches
“While the ACLU was taking aim at the Catholic Church’s tax exempt status, the Union affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island, came out in favor of a tax exemption for Satanists.”Source They went and got a tax administator to rule that a coven of witches were entitled the same tax-exemption as churches had. This is pure hypocrisy. The ACLU’s involvement in this case clearly shows that they will defend the rights of the occult. Many Christians wonder why they are not as acommodating to our interests. The answer, however, is in the ideology of Marx and Engels.
From Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844:
Atheism, as the denial of this unreality, has no longer any meaning, for atheism is a negation of God, and postulates the existence of man through this negation; but socialism as socialism no longer stands in any need of such a mediation. It proceeds from the theoretically and practically sensuous consciousness of man and of nature as the essence. Socialism is man’s positive self-consciousness, no longer mediated through the abolition of religion, just as real life is man’s positive reality, no longer mediated through the abolition of private property, through communism.
Imperialism and Religion: A Soviet propaganda poster from the 1930s. The ghostly form of a greedy capitalist pushes on the exterminator, one of whose nozzles dispenses the “opium of the people” — religion.
Engels thought that “modern spiritualism” was the “emptiest of all superstitions.”
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…It is the opium of the people…The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness…Thus the criticism of heaven turns into the criticism of the earth… the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics (Marx. 1964, 42).
Marxism is a euphemism for communism. Karl Marx co-authored with Frederic Engels in Dec. 1847 – Jan. 1848 the Manifesto of the Communist Party (a.k.a. the Communist Manifesto).
It is recommended that anyone who finds claims of the close ideological connection and ties between communism and feminism a hard pill to swallow better read the Communist Manifesto but also other writings by Marx and Engels. He will then have no problem realizing that feminism, especially radical feminism (a.k.a. socialist- or Marxist feminism) is nothing more than communism transformed, communism in drag.
Feminism, Occult and Witchcraft.
Is NOW actually the National Organization of Witches?
“…[I]t is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men… All of history must be re-written in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft“
— The Declaration of Feminism, November 1971.
The whole Feminist cult is rankly atheistical, and they despise the teaching of St. Paul and of the church. They proclaim the “New Religion” and the “New Freedom of Women,” for by these they are “emancipated” from all moral and religious restraint.
— Benjamin V. Hubbard — Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism,1915, pp. 142
“Let’s forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women… Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist ‘salvation’ of this world”
— Annie Laurie Gaylor, “Feminist Salvation,” “The Humanist”, July/August 1988, p.37
“By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God”
— Gloria Steinem, editor of ‘MS’ magazine.
“God is going to change. We women… will change the world so much that He won’t fit anymore.”
— Naomi Goldenberg, Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions (Quoted at beginning of From Father God to Mother Earth)
From Frontpage Magazine:
Oddly, ACLU lawyers do not object to these pagan religion practices on public property or with public money. Nor were the civil-liberties lawyers opposing a Christmas crèche in San Jose, California, two years ago, concerned that taxpayer money had been spent to create a statue of the pagan Aztec god Quetzalcoatl to be installed permanently in the same public square. Fear of litigation persuaded the school board of Roswell, New Mexico—home of the purported UFO crash—in September, 1999, to affirm the right of students to wear the five-pointed star pentangle symbol of their pagan wiccan or witchcraft religion in classrooms. The Mayor of Ashville, North Carolina, proclaimed the week of October 25, 1999, as “Earth Religions Awareness Week” and praised the cultural contributions of “pagan” and “Earth-centered” beliefs. But Mayor Leni Sitnick, as of this writing, has not embraced a local minister’s request that she proclaim a “Lordship of Jesus Christ Week.”
Only in the case of Christianity do they cry “separation of church and state” in order to justify removing all remnants of our nation’s noble religious underpinnings.
Now, if we were to follow some misguided philosphy of the separation of church and state, one could rationalize their policy on a church’s tax exempt status. One could also rationalize a position of tax exemption to all religions. But there is no logical reasoning that one could take to defend both of these positions. It is pure hypocrisy, and proof that the ACLU is an enemy of Christianity.
Actually, IMO, it is definitive proof that the ACLU is a communist organization, supporting every single one of the communist goals (barring none!) set forth before the American public and read into the Congressional record in 1963.
I question their tax exempt-status! I think it’s time for Christians on the left and right to wake up to the ACLU’s agenda!
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