By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
Glenview Elementary School’s faculty and student body were just trying to honor September 11th’s victims by saying ‘God Bless America’ at the end of the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the suburban Haddon Heights public school.
That’s never good enough for miserable people trying to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
According to published reports, the school is ending the practice after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) threatened the school board attorney with a letter claiming that the tradition was unconstitutional. The school is understandably reluctant to expend resources fighting a court battle.
Yet again, Save Jerseyans, we’ve got cultural liberal manipulating history to advance their worldview. And the ‘separation of church and state’ doctrine is easily among the most manipulated – and misunderstood – concepts in American political discourse.
“Jefferson’s figurative language has not produced the practical solutions that its apparent clarity and directness lead the wall-builders to expect. Indeed, this wall has done what walls frequently do–it has obstructed the view,” Daniel L. Dreisbach, an American University professor, explained in a particularly well-written Heritage Foundation essay back in 2006. “It has obfuscated our understanding of constitutional principles. There is little advantage in metaphor if it is unable to bring clarity to an ambiguous or confusing text or if it fails to aid in the interpretive process.”
In this context, Thomas Jefferson (who played no direct role in the Constitutional convention) was taking on the powerful Anglican Church in Virginia that had ruled the Old Dominion with theocratic powers; he wasn’t anti-religion – the man espoused belief in a Creator and edited his own Bible for God’s sake! – but rather strongly opposed to the establishment of any single religion as a compulsory state-enforced religion.
None of this important history is ambiguous unlike the ACLU’s commitment to the Constitution.
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And everyone bows down to them. Such a shame it costs so much money to stand up to these hoodlums!!! They’re just thugs!
Your Hillary is showing, Matt. 9/11 was over fifteen years ago. If you really want to keep beating that drum, get in line behind your girlfriend.
Leave it to right wing hucksters to take attempting to get the law enforced as an attack. Had they been saying, “Praise Allah”, or “Hail Satan” after the pledge, which already has, “Under God” in it, people like you would be the first ones bitching and moaning. Right wing, “War on Christmas” fanatics pull this nonsense all over the country and it ALWAYS backfires because even if you get your way, everybody else gets to do it too and it only infuriates your ilk even further.
You need to start coming to grips with the fact that you’re not that special and that your narrow view of who or what a god is does not get preference over that of anybody else’s.
So where is the Governor?
People might feel differently if the prayer included the word ‘Allah.’ Prayers are for home, church, family…and a person or a child’s private moments. Not public school classrooms. Want prayer in schools? Visit Tehran.
Bullshit!
Somewhere in New Jersey there is a length of rope with your name on it, Justine.
What I have not seen is how the ACLU found out that a little elementary school in a small South Jersey community was saying “God Bless America”.