Bush to Rebuild Mosque in Iraq — Where is The ACLU?
When President Bush announced that U.S. funds would be used to help rebuild a Mosque damaged in Iraq this week, one would have expected an immediate firestorm of outrage from the ACLU and other liberal extremists.
A “Violation of separation of church and state!” they would have been expected to argue in typical knee-jerk reaction. But, oddly enough, not a peep out of the ACLU, or the other usual suspects on the loony left.
How to explain this indifference? After all, Bush’s proposal involves an assault on the constitutionally-required separation of church and state, which, although it does not actually exist, is nevertheless revered as holy by liberals.
Then I remembered. Liberals pursue church-state arguments only when it concerns Christian symbols and values. And they do so to advance their “Tear America Down” agenda.
In other words, its perfectly fine to spend scores of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to rebuild a Mosque in Iraq, but not OK to display a cross or nativity scene in a public park at Christmas, or to delineate the Ten Commandments in a court house or other government building in America.
Once again, liberal hypocrisy proves very vexing. One is at a loss to explain how such misguided and harmful thinking is able to survive in a sophisticated, modern society like America.
John W Lillpop is a recovering liberal who has been “clean and sober†since 1992 when he last voted for a Democrat. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, the only place on earth where Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer are considered sane and intelligent.
The opinions expressed in this column represent those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, or philosophy of CaliforniaConservative.org
February 26th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Gosh, I would think that, given the precedent of aiding sectarian church rebuilding, maybe after helping the Iraqis maybe we could help a few churches in Alabama get rebuilt. After all, as far as I’m concerned, those were, taken in whole, terrorist acts, too.
Nah, that’s too much to ask for, I guess. But I’ll bet the A.C.L.U. will stand foursquare behind those pore souls who set the fires, the pore misunderstood miscreants that society surely made so angry as to burn a bunch of churches down. Any takers?