I posted a while ago when Senator Schumer railed that the Religious Right was trying to impose a theocracy in the US – his attempt was yet another in a long line in attempting to distort and redefine language to fit a small, narrow, political outlook.
Surfing tonight, I stopped by TongueTied and saw that John Ray had linked to Stop The ACLU‘s Post on the same subject here. An interesting twist was this:
Think a relatively small, but highly organized group of lawyers, rather extravagantly funded by ultraliberal donors, overtly defending and promoting activities and “progressive” judges’ rulings that are very offensive to the majority of Americans. Think of a little group who portray themselves as “defenders” of civil liberties, who increasingly and arrogantly intimidate elected officials into defying the expressed wishes of the majority and thereby deprive them of civil liberties!
Think an elitist coterie who twist and redefine the expressed intentions of the framers of the Constitution in order to defend anarchists, pedophiles, sworn enemies of our nation, aberrant sexual practices, blasphemies of all kinds and attacks on our hallowed institutions – and who at the same time proceed against every kind of public expression of faith or religion, always misappropriating a phrase not even in our Constitution, “separation of church and state.”
Think an unregulated, self-appointed group who openly intend to control and dictate not only what individual citizens can do and say, whenever they choose, but who infiltrate our courts so they can legislate from the judicial bench – and even tell our democratically elected representatives what they must do! Think a renegade group openly hostile, not only to Christianity in particular, but to long cherished Judeo-Christian principles in general, unarguably principles on which our society was founded. Think a group determined to erase any and every reference to God, the Bible or Christian teaching – even voluntary public prayer in any non-church venue – from American life!
Think theocratic dictatorship.
Some of us prefer precise definitions and careful use of our language. Others see it just as a way to try to score political points.
