Why do Christians hate the American Constitution?

Question

I am seeing Christians constantly mocking the ACLU because of a few cases where they have defended against religious incursions into our secular institutions. In case you didn't realize it the ACLU has also defended Christians when their rights have been stepped on.

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So why do Christians hate our constitutional rights? Why do they call the ACLU, the Anti Christian Liberty Union, and similar silly anti-rights names, especially when they have fought for rights for Christians' rights as well aso everyone else's rights?

Answer 1

The ACLU is more American than most Christians.

Answer 2

You assume a couple things in how you've worded this question.

1) You assume that Christians in general hate the Constitution and the rights it defines.

2) You assume that Christians are unaware of the work the ACLU does.


What is your religious affiliation? If expression of your religion had been curtailed as Christians' has been, would you still feel as you do?




I've read many of the answers, and I have to agree with Original Duck.

Please re-read the Constitution. The founding fathers never intended to quash religion or its expression or practice. I think I will always struggle with the ACLU's interpretation of that right.


Another thought- if religion and the practice thereof is inappropriate, then why does Congress get to start their days off with prayer.. usually delivered by a Christian? Why can't school kids have the same thing?

Answer 3

So the desire to be considered equal is a hatred of the Constitution?

As a Christian, I recognize the Constitution as a God-inspired document. Please re-read that document. Nowhere does it codify a right to never be offended, nor does it separate religion and government.

As a human being, I see the inequality that the ACLU has attempted. They've tried to remove our right to practice our religion as we see fit, and that's what the Christians I speak to are upset about.

The ACLU wants to prevent offense. That in and of itself isn't a bad thing, but when offense are prevented on one hand through oppression on the other, it's not.

Since when has not being offended become a right?

It seems that the ACLU would prefer to remove all religion, forgetting the fact that religion (in all it's forms) is the reason this country even exists.

Religion, it's expression and practice, whether it's Christian or not is an intrinsic part of America, and it seems that the ACLU has forgotten that.

Answer 4

I don't hate the constitution and I don't dislike the ACLU. Some of us just try to get along with one another for our time here on Earth.

BTW for the guy a few people above me, some of us at soldiers funerals are trying to stop the morons protesting. We have a group near to us in Kansas that used to like to come down to Texas and start trouble until they realized it is hard to protest over a few hundred motorcycles revving up their bikes. They don't come around here anymore. One town was so grateful that we got lunch and it was paid for by the sheriff. So not all of us are like that.

Answer 5

The constitution guarantees the freedom of religion. Why is the ACLU opposed to the constitution?

The latest battle took place in Berkley, Michigan where the ACLU threatened a lawsuit if the city did not remove a nativity display from public grounds. For the most part, the episode is exactly what has played out in most other fronts of the War on Christmas. One interesting anecdote, however, stands out.

One of the compromises that was suggested to the ACLU was the creation of a "free speech zone." This would be an area outside most government control where citizens could put up holiday displays of their own choosing. The ACLU was dead set against this idea. Their rationale? Citizens would use their free expression to support Christmas. The "defenders" of the Bill of Rights stood against free speech.

The First Amendment is clear, while establishing a state religion is illegal, so is prohibiting free expression of religion. The First Amendment requires institutional separation, not public atheism.

A federal judge in Riverside, California, has issued orders for the destruction of the solitary Roman cross at the Mojave Desert World War I Veterans Memorial. The court ruled in favor of the ACLU to nullify an act of Congress last year sponsored by Congressman Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., which authorized a land exchange which would place the cross site on private land and in private hands in a land exchange. The ACLU contended the land exchange was a "sham" to evade the court’s injunctive order to destroy the cross, first issued in 2002. The court has so found, and significantly, ordered the legislative branch—Congress—not to carry out the land exchange, and ordered the executive branch to destroy the cross at the veterans memorial. Veterans in the 2.7-million member American Legion have vowed to fight against the destruction of the veterans memorial, and stand up to the ACLU. Although there had never been a complaint about the veterans memorial cross in more than 70 years, the ACLU seized the opportunity to file a federal suit to destroy it as a violation of the Establishment Clause—and to seek attorney fees under the Civil Rights Act. Indeed, the ACLU is now so fanatic and loosed from common sense that it has become the Taliban of liberal secularism.

High school students in Winona, Minnesota, were warned to not wear buttons inspired by the sometimes raunchy off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues. In fact, the students were threatened with expulsion if they wore risque T-shirts inspired by the show. The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is offering to help students fight any consequences in what's become a battle between supposed free speech and school conduct policies, according to the St. Cloud Times (4/21/05). Despite threats of serious punishment and emboldened by the help of the ACLU, 100 students ordered T-shirts beaing "I (heart = love) My Vagina" for girls and "I Support Your Vagina" for boys. Again, the irony of this situation is the fact that the ACLU will not lift a finger for students fighting for their religious rights or Christian freedoms to wear certain buttons or T-shirts, but will go to great lengths to support anti-traditional behavior and pornography. But really, does this surprise anyone?

The ACLU wants a federal judge to punish public school officials for a prayer that was recited recently before a high school baseball game. ACLU of Louisiana executive director Joe Cook says it was "un-American and immoral" to allow an adult to pray over Loranger High School's public address system. Cook says members of the school board should be fined or jailed for failing to stop it, according to Agape Press (4/6/05). This is a classical case of Orwellian doublespeak! When prayer offered in a school is considered "un-American" and even "immoral," I wonder what dictionary or sense of interpretation these moronic ACLU revisionists are using?! And we traditionalist Americans never thought we would see the day when someone could get arrested or fined or lose their jobs for praying.

Answer 6

First some argued that homosexuals have no good to marry below the U.S. shape. although: Article IV, section 2 - "The electorate of each and every State would be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of electorate in distinctive States." replace IX - "The enumeration interior the form, of specific rights, shall no longer be construed to disclaim or disparage others retained by applying the persons." So, the subsequent step became to attempt to amend the form. while that did no longer artwork, they pronounced that the form is "in basic terms a goddamned piece of paper." The U.S. became based as a constitutional republic, no longer a theocracy, christian or in any different case. Marriage is in basic terms a criminal settlement. no longer something extra. all of us who needs to have a non secular ceremony is easily entitled to realize this, however the authority to accomplish a legally binding married could be granted by applying the state. this suggests that government is the criminal authority, no longer faith, as a result, non secular companies have no say over who would or won't marry. they might refuse to accomplish ceremonies at their discretion, yet they won't impose their faith's regulations on people who do no longer keep on with them voluntarily. .

Answer 7

Yah, that makes a lot of sense. We Christians just HATE rights. Especially since most of out moral dogma revolves around not infringing on the rights of others. Don't lump all Christians together, please preface it with "these" or "those" and explain yourself. The only thing I hate is when you do that.

So do you ONLY see Christians mocking the ACLU? What about the anarchist atheists who mock everything. Why you scared of Christians and have to pick on them?

Answer 8

This is easy:

From the fundamentalist perspective:
They disagree with my way - it is wrong.

So, disagreeing with the ACLU makes the ACLU wrong.

It's not a Christian thing but a narrow minded thing.

Answer 9

Do you mean those so- self called Christians?

We the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints " Christian Mormons"

Stand behind the US Constitution 100%

The Constution let us down during 1834-1900

Answer 10

the constitution guarantees equality and the christian church belives equality is only given if you are a christian. the christians want all of the power so they can place the rest of us more under their thumbs. god willing, christianity will not become more powerful as we head into the 21st century.