Jerome Corsi - Bad Samaritans: The ACLUs Relentless Campaign to Erase Faith from the Public Square

Praise for BAD SAMARITANS

Dr. Corsi has written powerfully and breathtakingly on numerous major topics for years. Now he has taken on a persistent foe of the American publicthe (so-called) American Civil Liberties Union and its campaign to deny the public their religious civil liberties. This book is a clarion call for action that should be heard far and wide.

CARL OLSON, CHAIRMAN,

STATE DEPARTMENT WATCH

Jerome Corsi authoritatively details the many ways in which the ACLU undermines the Judeo-Christian foundation of American society. He also shows how this objective serves the political interests of the Left. The ACLU wont like it, but thats all the more reason why those who truly value freedom will embrace it.

BILL DONOHUE, AUTHOR, THE POLITICS OF THE

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND TWILIGHT OF

LIBERTY: THE LEGACY OF THE ACLU, PRESIDENT OF THE

CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Our first civil liberty is the freedom of religion. Ironically its the right the American Civil Liberties Union works most doggedly to undermine. In Bad Samaritans Jerry Corsi rips the mask off of the ACLU and its agenda for a godless world once and for all.

MICHAEL CENTANNI, CHAIRMAN,

FREEDOMS DEFENSE FUND

Jerome Corsi has done a masterful job of detailing the ACLUs ongoing campaign against God and Christianity, a campaign that perfectly set the stage for Barack Obamas effort to secularize America and proclaim to the world that we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation. Corsis Bad Samaritans should be required reading for every pastor so he can educate his flock about the threat to religious freedom in America.

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY,

PRESIDENT, EAGLE FORUM

In Bad Samaritans Jerry Corsi correctly identifies the ACLU as both an organization seeking a collectivist world order based on flawed liberal magic think and money grabbing commercial enterprise. His appraisal of the ACLU move into social issues to bring about radical societal change is accurate and documented. Corsis analysis of the case in which my atheist mother, Madalyn Murray OHair, was involved in to remove prayer from the schools is precise and demonstrates the use of American courts to destroy Americas civil foundations. This is a must read book for those seeking knowledge of the origins and objectives of the ACLU.

WILLIAM J. MURRAY, CHAIRMAN,

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COALITION

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SAMARITANS

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For William J. Murray, William A. Donohue, Joseph Farah,
and Phyllis Schlafly, four Good Samaritan warriors in Jesus
Christ, who have led the battle against the ACLUs War on God

... one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

7. The Far-Left ACLU Juggernaut

PROTECTING FAITH,
PRESERVING LIBERTY

Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.

W. CLEON SKOUSEN

G od did not inspire our Founding Fathers to create the United States as a land of religious freedom only to see subsequent generations squander that precious religious freedom because a group of politically motivated lawyers funded by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) fought, nearly unopposed, a sophisticated, ideological War on God.

Since its founding, the ACLU has set out to pervert the First Amendment, written to preserve religious freedom, into a twisted interpretation where freedom of religion is now read to mean freedom from religion, a reinterpretation made necessary if the ACLU is to accomplish its long-standing goal of removing God from Americas public square.

The ACLU is the legal vanguard in the United States of a movement whose roots trace back to atheism and communism. The Founding Fathers warned that our liberties were dependent upon a citizenry who believed in God. Communists from Marx and Lenin on have always realized that undermining religion is a precondition to establishing their political goals, which include state control of the means of production, abolition of private property, and redistribution of income. In other words, the destruction of the capitalist state demands a war on the Judeo-Christian God. Undermining liberty cannot happen unless faith is first undermined. The point is, the founding principles of the ACLU determined as necessary that the organization existed to wage a War on God. The ACLUs hatred of God was no modern accident. Instead, the ACLUs hatred of God is a necessary consequence of the reason the organization was created.

The protection and rights of the individualconceived as an eternal soul given life by a Supreme Being, endowed with unalienable rights, and governed by a code of natural right built into human consciousness by our Creatorare the fundamental construct that drove our Founding Fathers to write the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The ACLU understands correctly that attacking God is the only way the American people would ever permit these sacred documents to be so deeply rewritten as to subvert their original meaning. If the American people can be driven from believing in God, the consequence is that our rights are no longer unalienable, but instead our rights, such as they may be, are bestowed by a state that can as easily take away the rights as grant them in the first place.

Among a purely secular people who have no meaning for natural law, all laws are equivalent, such that even when the state dictates arbitrarily, there is no power or ultimate arbiter higher than the state itself. A people who abandon God necessarily abandons their liberty. All that remains is a secular state whose end in purpose may well be the end of any liberty or freedom, such as is expressed by the First Amendment, that predicates itself on the inherent right built into the human heart and soul to have individual recourse to a power greater than the state. A secular state that can bestow human rights can equally remove those same human rights, at the will of the state, to the extreme detriment of those believers in God who yet might remain within the state.

As I completed this book, I felt a sense of urgency. Since the organization was created in 1920, so many constitutional battles have been lost to the ACLU that time has grown short to stop the onslaught. Constitutional warriors for God must understand the ACLU has employed such sophisticated techniquesnot only of legal argumentation, but also of organizational development, fund-raising, and even psychology and public relationsthat reversing the tide in Gods favor has no easy assurance of success.