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Separation and the Cultural War: The Left's Three-Part Strategy
(CHART #9)
1. Restrict Christian influence in the legislative process.
AU and their allies on the Left have argued that to restrict certain
behavior (such as abortion and homosexuality) through legislation based
on "religious" beliefs, constitutes a violation of the "Establishment
Clause" of the First Amendment. Such legislation, they argue,
"establishes" certain theological views of right and wrong to the
exclusion of opposing views, while at the same time restricting the
"free exercise" of those whose "religious beliefs" allow for such
behavior. Abortion and homosexuality have been two areas where these
arguments have been used.
2. Censor the knowledge of Christianity from America's children.
This has been accomplished by the secularization of the educational
philosophy of public schools and by the creation of a virtual monopoly
in public education. By rejecting parental choice in education as
indirect government aid to religion, the Religious and Political Left
has successfully created and sustained a virtual monopoly in public
education. Parents who seek to escape these government schools on
religious grounds are often trapped by virtue of their inability to
financially afford an educational alternative.
3. Dilute and silence the Church.
(See CHART #5)
It is the prophetic nature of the church to which AU and the Left are
opposed. We are perfectly free to believe as we wish. The conflict
arises when such beliefs begin to shape and mold the moral direction of
American society.
Motivated by their hostility toward conservative, Bible-believing
Christianity, AU has played havoc with the Christian community, creating
strife, antagonism and division. Among AU's strategies to confuse and
dilute the Christian community has been their use of "clergy" as
advocates for their radical, extremist views of church/state separation.
Pitting clergy against clergy on the local level has proved to be very
successful in silencing opposition to the advancement of their agenda
and in diluting the "salt and light" nature of the Church.
AU has had other factors working in their favor. Public education has
played a key role in advancing the Left's agenda. By using the force of
law to restrict religious-based ideas and values from competing with the
secular, and by creating a virtual monopoly in public education, AU and
company have significantly affected the thinking of a generation of
American people.
According to such influential leaders as Paul Blanshard, AU's former
Special Counsel, public schools can be credited with shifting the
American people away from "creedal religion" (Bible-believing
Christianity) to "warmhearted service religion" (liberal religion where
tolerance is the good news of the day). (See Blanshards quote on
_Creedal Religion_, Chart #5)
From: St. Louis MetroVoice, May 1995, Vol. 5, No. 5.