Selective Blindness

by Gene Shelburne

Some of the smartest, best educated, nicest people in America belong to the ACLU.

How then do we explain their selective blindness and their passion for defending the vile and profane?

Several months ago ACLU attorneys filed suit against Nitro High School in West Virginia. The school’s offense? Offering prayers over the loudspeaker at their football games.

At the same time ACLU attorneys went to court to defend the right of students to display the “f—” word on their T-shirts.

The message is clear, isn’t it? Prayer is dangerous to students and must be outlawed. Profanity is beneficial to students and must be protected. Why does the ACLU embrace such a muddled message?

Lawyers for the ACLU are now suing the State of Ohio for including “with God all things are possible” in their state motto.

Meanwhile in New Mexico the ACLU has challenged and temporarily blocked a new state law designed to protect children from pedophilic predators on the Internet. In Albuquerque federal judge Leroy Hanson granted an ACLU petition for an injunction against the law, thus leaving New Mexico children without any legal state protection from perverts in cyberspace.

Again the message sent to us by the ACLU seems clear. They are telling us that acknowledging faith in God will blight a state, but protecting the freedoms of pornographers and pedophiles somehow will make a state a better place to live.

I really cannot believe that my friends in the ACLU intend to send us the messages I have just ascribed to them. But it’s hard to see how the practical import of their legal actions can send any other message, isn’t it?

The Bible warns us to avoid the kind of inverted social engineering these ACLU cases reflect. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter,” God cautions. “Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight” (Isaiah 5:20-21).

Most of us expect our three-year-olds to know the difference between right and wrong. Then, it seems, we send them off to law school to help them forget.