Liberals are perturbed about the fact that the Duval County School Board members are allowing people to pray.
In this case, the offensive behavior is the board’s policy of allowing “faith partners” who offers prayers or a thought at the beginning of meetings.
Two organizations have complained to the school administration about the praying, based mainly on the leftist fantasy that government must not only be completely separate from the church, but also be free from any religious beliefs, thoughts or practices.
This is an ongoing concern with the left, as everyone knows.
On the Far Left, government is god, usually in its most brutal form – the totalitarian monster known variously as communism, fascism or socialism. People living under those forms of government have little individual freedom.
However, the Constitution of the United Sates clearly states the unalienable Rights of people come from their “Creator,” and the very purpose of government is to “secure these rights.”
If the founding document contains such statements, where’s the wall?
This is markedly different from the Constitution of the Soviet Union, which specifically requires that the church be “separated from the state.”
The fact-checking organization Just Facts makes these pertinent points:
- Vladimir Lenin, the primary founder and first leader of the Soviet Union, said “we reject ethics” based on “God’s commandments” and “our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests” of advancing Communism.
- Another Soviet leader stated, “There is neither soil nor sap on which religion can feed in the USSR” because “the Church is separated from the state — and the schools are in the hands of the state.”
- The Fascist Manifesto demands “rigidly secular” schools.
The U.S. Constitution says the federal government may not make laws to establish a religion but also does not allow “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” It doesn’t require a total separation of church and state, and it doesn’t require that all laws be based on atheistic standards.
Leftists cling to the separation of church and state trope but it is based entirely on a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a church association that had asked Jefferson about the State of Connecticut flouting their freedom of religion.
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State,” Jefferson wrote. “Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
Speaking of social duties, Jefferson also said on another occasion that the Constitution forbids the federal government from enacting social programs, which now comprise most federal government spending.
Odd how they grab one Jeffersonian thought while shunning another.
Leftists also don’t think much of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s explicit statement that “a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God.” Sounds like King thought God’s teachings should be considered in making law. Can’t do that behind a wall.
Anyway, don’t leftists believe that walls don’t work?
If the leftists want to help children in government schools, they should enlist in the effort to root pornography and propaganda from the school libraries, rather than complaining about people seeking guidance from a power higher than government.
