ACLU Attacks Christianity in W VA

The champion of the secular cause has determined that Bridgeport, West Virginia is their next battleground in the effort to decrease the influence of Christianity in our country. At issue is a painting of Jesus that has hung in a Harris County public high school for the last 37 years. What has brought the painting into the national spotlight, and the cross hairs of the ACLU, is that it was stolen last week.

If you research the history of this town of 8,000, you'll find that it is a heavily Christian community. The Harris County Board of Education has decided to fight the intrusion, saying "..this is important to us and reflects what our community wants in our schools." The board is not spending tax payer money in their defense. The students and the Christian Freedom Fund have raised money for the expenses, and the Alliance Defense Fund has been retained as legal counsel for the board.

The executive director of the WV ACLU, Andrew Schneider, has resorted to calling the supporters of the school board's case names saying, "I think what you're dealing with is a small group of rabble-rousers that only want to live with people who live as they do. My answer to that is go to a private school, go to a parochial school; don't go to a public school."

At the core of this fight is the belief by secularists in the mythical separation of church and state provision. Read the Constitution and you won't ever read those words. Indeed, in almost every government building you walk into throughout the country you will see references to the Christian principles so heavily relied on by the Framers of the Constitution. It's a matter of public record and one just has to wander around DC to look at the monuments to see it.

In a separate incident in Philadelphia, an elementary school student was told by his principal that he violated the school's policy that "prohibited the promotion of religion" by dressing up as Jesus for his class Halloween party, even though the same principal, Patricia Whitmire at Willow Hill Elementary, approved of devil and witch costumes. A complaint has been filed by the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of the fourth grader's family.

These are just two fronts in the campaign that the secular left, spearheaded by the ACLU, is fighting to diminish the influence of Christian principles in the United States. Despite the fact that it is our history and a majority of Americans agree, the ACLU has decided that Christian influences need to go.