Unholy Alliance

From Investors Business Daily:
Posted 12/15/2005

Dissent:
An ad in The New York Times this week shows that the Christmas debate is about more than political correctness. It's part of a campaign to remove religious impediments to the left's secular agenda.

Taken out by a group calling itself World Can't Wait (WCW), the ad was ostensibly an anti-capitalist and anti-war tome opposing the war on terror and the liberation on Iraq. In the process it managed to lay the blame at the feet of those it called "home-grown Christian fascists."

You'd think "fascists and religious fanatics" would have been a phrase reserved for the regime of Saddam Hussein and those who park car bombs that kill children. But WCW applies the term to members of the Bush administration, charging that the U.S. government "is moving each day closer to a theocracy where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule."

The list of signatories to the WCW ad read like a loony left hall of fame. It included Jane Fonda, from the People's Republic of Hollywood, who once said, "If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist." The irony of praying for communism apparently escaped Barbarella.

Also on the list are such notables as Cindy Sheehan who, despite her son's willing and noble sacrifice, once said, "This country is not worth dying for." Then there was Ward Churchill, the nutty professor from Colorado who called the dead of 9-11 "little Eichmanns," and Mumia Abu-Jamal, poster child for cop killers and counted as one of America's "political prisoners."

WCW, as Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly notes, was founded in part by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Joined by fellow right-wing conspirator John Gibson, author of "The War on Christmas," O'Reilly has been leading the charge in exposing those striving to strip Christmas of all religious content and to suppress religious expression to make it easier to advance their secular agenda.

The "Christianity as a threat" theme in the Times ad echoes campaigns by the American Civil Liberties Union and others. The ACLU, of course, has been "against America from the beginning," as a new book, "The ACLU Vs. America" by Alan Sears and Craig Osten, makes clear.

The book starts off with a quote from ACLU founder Roger Baldwin: "I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."

So, apparently, is the removal of the true meaning of Christmas from the public square and American consciousness. We see it in the campaigns against appeals court nominee William Pryor and Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Both have been attacked as Catholics faithful to the teachings of their church whose faith threatens our rights and the fair administration of justice.

In announcing the birth of our nation, the Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we were endowed not by government, but by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This government, founded by people motivated by their faith, seeks to spread liberty and freedom worldwide as it protects them here.

The secular left believes something else — that all rights come from government, specifically a "living Constitution" interpreted by activist judges. That is what really drives their agenda, from opposing the liberation of Iraq to fighting the public display of manger scenes.