ACLU Against Faith Based No Sex Program
While doing a deep search (as much as I can on lefty leaning internet news services), I ran across this.
ACLU: Fed Chastity Program Ringed with Religion
The Chastity Program they challenged is called The Silver Ring Thing. It is a program, supported by government funds (therein is the problem with the American Hating ACLU) asking teenagers to abstain from sex and by doing so, they wear a silver ring. Now the ring has an inscription inside from the Bible:
The $15 silver rings that teens are encouraged to buy for the ceremony are inscribed with a biblical reference of 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4, which reads “God wants you to be holy, so you should keep clear of all sexual sin. Then each of you will control your body and live in holiness and honor.”
Souce: Women’s e-news
Of course the ACLU got their panties in a snit, claiming that any funds provide by the government, especially anything that President Bush might support, was a violation of Church and State. I hope I don’t have to remind you that the ACLU continues to twist that part of the constitution!
Anyway, they sued, and sure enough, another group buckled under the pressure, and The Silver Ring Thing removed any religious reference from their website.
Of course the people at the ACLU were all a twitter about another win for their hate filled organization, but not completely. *Of course we know these people are never satisfied, and won’t be until they remove any christian reference from the face of America (and replace it I’m sure with the good Islamic teachings of, say, Bin Ladin?). *
I won’t link their site here, but quoting from their site:
“A sanitized version of the website does not change the fact that the Silver Ring Thing in its core programming is nothing more than a vehicle for converting young people to Christianity,” said Sarah Wunsch, a staff attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts. “Taxpayer dollars should play no part in such a program.”
Hey Ms. Wunsch, those are “my” taxpayer dollars you’re talking about — you didn’t ask me did you? You know what assume means don’t you?
I personally have no problem with his organization, and no problem with my “tax dollars” going to support it. Anything that can help young people abstain from sex until they are more mature to deal with the ramifications of those choices is a plus in my book. And if using faith is part of it – so be it.
The soap Days of Our Lives had a storyline based on The Silver Ring Thing last year (although they didn’t discuss the faith part of it), but it still used the concept of abstaining from sex until the two people got married. Of course in true soap fashion, eventually the silver rings came off and the relationship splintered and the whole concept fell out the window for ratings.
But I still believe it’s a good program. Of course anything that’s good or moral is wrong in the eyes of the ACLU — :?
Stop the ACLU before there is nothing left to stand for in this country.
=Additional Reading about the ACLU=
Hurting Your Country
Amnesty, ACLU go after America
The ACLU is going down, and taking a few of us with it
1JayS2629
wrote on 9 June 2005 at 11:30
Excellent job! I’m not sure why Gribbit didn’t get you on the blogroll. I will go ahead and add you. Please send me an email, so that I have your email address to send you stuff. Thanks so much…you did an excellent job.
2cl
wrote on 9 June 2005 at 14:19
Good for the ACLU! Why can’t “kids” have sex? It’s a part of nature that God created!
3Jo
wrote on 9 June 2005 at 14:45
cl, you missed the whole point. It wasn’t about kids having sex that the ACLU had a problem with, it is with the religious basis of the Abstinence. The ACLU never objected to the program, or what it was trying to do, it was the bible they can’t stomach.
4Jay
wrote on 9 June 2005 at 15:02
cl will always take the ACLU’s side. They have been to my site before. They always find some way to twist an argument FOR them no matter how dispicable it is.
5cl
wrote on 10 June 2005 at 7:30
I will always agree with the ACLU when it comes to fighting religious indoctrination. It’s fine that you have your beliefs and that’s one of the greatest freedoms in the U.S., but I’m tired of those who are trying to push their beliefs on me. I believe the bible is nothing other than fiction.
I don’t agree with everything the ACLU defends. I’m not a card-carrying member. StoptheACLU, for the most part, only opposes the ACLU for religious reasons. I, for the most part, only support the ACLU because they are taking religion out of my life. Why can’t those who are religious understand that these issues force religion on me? Abortion, Gay Marriage, “Blue Laws,†etc. Time and time again, the courts find in favor of the ACLU. Why? Because they are upholding my rights established by this country and not the Bible. Practice your religion on your own time on your own property or the property of the church you belong to. Religion has no place in government or on public property. In the thousands of years of history of religion, only one thing is true; people are and have been killed for their beliefs. Everyone is fighting because their “word of God†is correct, what a joke. Man wrote the Bible. There are more important things to worry about in this world. Things we see on a daily basis, not what might have been or what might be. Religious beliefs are askew.
Jay, I see that you are recruiting more haters. I stopped visiting because there are no real discussions there, just a bunch of radicals supporting each other’s opinion, while jumping on my back of any opposition. I think I proved my point that everyone there runs to his or her Bible for the “truth.†I believe that is one of the issues gone terribly wrong with this world. I highly doubt that any God would want anyone to fight over him.