This seems to get resurrected every Christmas. Its been around for a while (as the postage rate reference indicates)... ----- Fun with the ACLU Wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD! As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world. Make sure it says Merry Christmas on it. Heres the Address, just dont be rude or crude. ACLU 125 Broad Street 18th Floor New York, NY 10004 Tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldnt know if any were regular mail containing contributions. So spend 37 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell them that there is no such thing as a Holiday Tree... Its a Christmas Tree. ----- Okay, a couple things here. First off, screwing with thine enemies isnt what youd call Christ-like behavior. Who Would Jesus Mail Bomb? Please. Second, its not an oversight that God is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. The omission of His name is, indeed, the ultimate act of respect for the religious freedom of Americans. Third, the ACLU is not anti-religion. In fact, the ACLU is one of the few organizations that actively and continuously fights to defend the religious liberties of all Americans. Unfortunately, the only thing you hear about is how the ACLU forced a local government to remove a nativity display that was funded with tax dollars and erected by the government itself, a form of sanction explicitly forbidden by the Bill of Rights. You didnt hear about the ACLU supporting the right of a second grader to sing the song Awesome God at a talent show. Or how it supported the rights of evangelists to preach on the Las Vegas strip. Or how it defended a Mormon student who was suspended from school for wearing a t-shirt with a religious message. Or how it convinced officials in Stafford County, Virginia to allow baptisms in a public park. Or how it supported the rights of students to distribute Christian literature at an Iowa school. Or how it defended a Christian churchs right to run anti-Santa ads in Boston subways. Sorry to wander off there. Lets get back to your Christmas card plan. Remember the story about how the NBC television networks mail room was brought to a screeching halt by the Save Star Trek letter writing campaign in the spring of 1967? And how they were blasted again, when all the Trekkers wrote thank you letters for renewing the show for the 1967-68 season? I suspect this legendary operation is the inspiration for the proposed escapade. But youve missed an important point. The Trekkers were told to send their requests in plain, white #10 business envelopes, the standard for business mail. It was impossible for NBC to tell the difference between the Save Star Trek missives and essential non-Trek letters. Just because the ACLU doesnt share your views doesnt mean theyre stupid. I did a little test, and you can try it yourself. When your mail comes today, see if you can spot the difference between the Christmas cards and your normal mail. Pretty easy, huh? Christmas cards look like- well, Christmas cards. Its impossible to mistake them for the return envelopes the ACLU uses for its membership renewals and donations. There are several other things you failed to consider. I dont have the figures in front of me, but I suspect a large number of ACLU employees are, in fact, Christians. Id wager the majority of its members are also church members as well. Believe it or not, the two organizations are not mutually exclusive. Im certain all the good Christian folks working at the ACLU will be thrilled to receive your Christmas greetings. It will certainly brighten their days and infuse them with the high spirits needed to continue to fight the good fight. Even better, when Christmas is over, the ACLU can bundle up all those cards and envelopes and ship them off to be recycled. Im certain that if your Christmas card campaign is successful, the recycling revenue will be pretty substantial, and heaven knows the ACLU can use the extra money. The ACLU ticks me off from time to time as well. But thats the problem with the way our system of government operates. As much as I hate to say it, we need the extreme right in this country, as well as the extreme left, constantly struggling, never giving an inch, to make certain our unique democratic republic maintains the center course. If left to those lazy moderates, nothing would ever get done. As famed closet liberal Barry Goldwater said, I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! Of course, the problem is that theres often major disagreement on the manner in which liberty and justice should be defined and implemented. Its a problem thats existed since March 4, 1789, and its one that has no foreseeable resolution. So, I guess were going to have to keep plugging away. As has generally been the case in this country, things will eventually work out. Neither side will be completely happy; but thats how its supposed to work. Merry Christmas. And I mean that sincerely.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:12:46 +0000
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