Terry Mitchell

Americans United Against the Separation of Church and State?



Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2012

by Terry Mitchell
http://commenterry.blogs.com

Something that I had suspected all along was confirmed for me not too many days ago. That suspicion was that most of these liberal groups who purport to exist primarily to promote the concept of the separation of church are quite hypocritical, and are instead just interested in keeping the church out of state matters and not the other way around.

The recent attempt by the Obama administration to force Catholic hospitals and other church-based employers to provide free contraceptives to their employees has brought out the true colors of at least one of these organizations, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AUSCS). Now when the government tries to impose its will in violation of the rights of religious groups to freely practice their beliefs, one would think that organizations such as AUSCS would come running to the defense of the religious groups, right? Wrong! Yeah, they came running alright – but to the defense of the government.

Imagine that – an organization that supposedly exists solely to help maintain the wall of separation between church and state is in favor of breaching that wall, under the right circumstances, of course. Think about it. This would be like PETA favoring animal cruelty when the conditions are right. Obviously, the difference between PETA and AUSCS is that PETA sincerely opposes all animal cruelty whereas AUSCS doesn’t really oppose all breaches in the separation of church and state.

AUSCS clearly opposes the concept of the church trying to impose its will on the state. They are very adamant, if not outright fanatical about that. But when the state attempts to impose its will on the church, they are apparently just okay with that. At those times, they could easily be called Americans United Against the Separation of Church and State.
Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, amateur political analyst, and blogger from Virginia, USA. He posts a least one article a day to his blog - http://commenterry.blogs.com - on subjects such as current events, politics, technology, society and culture, religion, health and well-being, self improvement, personal finance, trivia, and sports. He is also the owner of a new privacy-enhanced search engine - http://www.SearchMost.com.

This Article has been viewed 283 times. (Not updated in real-time.)
Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)
» left by Marijo Phelps
 92 days 18 hours ago.
143 fans.
Excellent article. I think with many, because time is short, we are seeing the following: 2 Thessalonians 2:11

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"

There seems to be way much more of that going on that ever before.

Thanks for shining light in this corner.

» left by Terry Mitchell 92 days 14 hours ago.
93 fans.
Marijo, there are a lot of people believing a lot of lies these days. It's up to us to shine the light in an ever-darkening world. I will continue this theme in some of my upcoming articles. Thanks for reading and commenting. BTW, you were right about Santorum in Colorado.
» left by Marijo Phelps 92 days 9 hours ago.
143 fans.
YES and who'd have thought a SWEEP!!! Maybe there is hope yet.
We want your comments! If you can read this, you don't have javascript enabled, so you can't use this comment system. Please enable javascript.