The Decades before the ACLU

In pursuit of the truth - http://cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Monday, Jan. 20, 2014

 

    I remember the 1940's and 1950's in North America. Everything was normal. Reason and common sense prevailed. Almost everyone believed in natural law. Bishop Fulton Sheen was on television. Most of the films from Hollywood accentuated the positive and your children well able to see them. The public in general agreed with the following three excerpts:

 

The Glory of America - January 17th - Calendar

Benjamin Franklin, scientist, philosopher, publisher and Founding Father, is widely thought to have been an agnostic. Yet in 1748, he proposed Pennsylvania's first FAST DAY:

"It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being ... we pray [that] Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... [and that] He would take this province under his protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, a unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger." Eidsmore, Constitution, 209

 

The Glory of America - January 18th - Calendar

On this day in 1782, the great orator and statesman, Daniel Webster, was born. In 1820, at the Bicentennial of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, he gave his now-classic assessment of their achievements:

"Our Ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits... Whatever make men good Christians, makes them good citizens." Harvey, Reminiscences, 393-94.

 

The Glory of America - January 19th - Calendar

Chief spokesman for independence in the Continental Congress, fiery Patriot Sam Adams was at the top of the British list of those guilty of "rabble rousing." Yet he was only being obedient to what he considered a "Higher Authority."

"The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty ... 'The Rights of the Colonists as Christians' ... may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver ... which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772.

 

    Then what happened in the 1960's?  A secular, agnostic and non-Christian revolution occurred in America! "The ACLU's thirst to purge America's public life of its Christian values is unquenchable. It has virtually unlimited resources at its disposal.... With nearly $400 million in assets and more than 2,000 volunteer and staff attorneys, the ACLU is radically committed t:

 

* Pushing Christian faith and biblical values to the margins of American society.

* Stripping parents of the rights to raise children according to their beliefs

*Tearing down barriers that protect children from pornography and pedophiles

*Cheapening the value of human life - from conception to natural death

*Forcing the homosexual legal agenda - including redefining marriage - on America, and drastically limiting religious freedom.

And as the ACLU pursues its radical agenda to end the religious freedoms that our Founding

Fathers secured for us, it will drag us back to court over and over again to: 1) Marginalize the Constitution and statutes regarding biblical views on sexual behavior. 2)Prevent Christians and ministries from publicly sharing the Gospel. 3) Defend the distribution of child pornography and hard-core obscenity. 4) Challenge laws that protect children from registered offenders. 5) Use public schools to promote homosexual behavior....

 

    But wait! The greatest enemy of the Catholic Church in America is the clone of the ACLU. He is also known as the CINOP. (Catholic-in-name-only-politician) Tragically, we have at least one in every diocese. He or she is like a Sacred Cow, protected via silence. Most American Catholic voters are uninformed to the violence the CINOP does with his votes in the State and Congress on issues relating to The Catechism of the Catholic Church and The Gospel of Life. Blessed Pope John Paul ll would turn over in his grave. Throughout the country, we have V.P. Biden, Governors Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo, and in California, Nancy Pelosi and Loretta Sanchez.

 

George H. Kubeck