Craig Osten - The ACLU vs. America

Few Americans realize how radical the ACLU has become and the threat it poses to liberty. This well-researched and documented book pulls the veil away and exposes the ACLU's true agenda.

Bill O'Reilly, Author and

Host of Fox News' O'Reilly Factor

Perhaps no organization has done more to remove America from its Judeo-Christian moorings than the ACLUwhom I often call the Anti-Christian Litigation Union. Alan Sears and Craig Osten have done a major service to the Body of Christ and to Americans of goodwill by exposing this evil organization in their new book. I recommend it!

D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., Founder and President of

Coral Ridge Ministries; Senior Minister, Coral

Ridge Presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Alliance Defense Fund is doing a wonderful work in defending religious liberty and preserving the rights of Christian people.

James Dobson, Founder, Focus on the Family

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

the founding members of the Alliance Defense Fund,
including the late Dr. Bill Bright, the late Larry
Burkett, the late Marlin Maddoux, the late William Pew,
Dr. James C. Dobson, and Dr. D. James Kennedy.

T he authors want to thank the following people whose assistance and expertise made this book possible: Elizabeth Murray, Al Janssen, Christina Nichols, Ashley Kyle, and John Perrodin.

Each made important contributions to the finished product, and we are grateful for their wisdom and service in helping to bring this work to completion. We also thank our wives for their encouragement and sacrifices. Finally, we give thanks to Almighty God, who is the source of all wisdom, knowledge, and strength.

Alan Sears and Craig Osten

Special Acknowledgment

The authors also wish to thank Bill O'Reilly (who asked Alan the question on air that caused us to write chap. 1), Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, John Leo, Dennis Prager, and Lou Dobbs for using their national media platform to help educate Americans about the ACLU and its real agenda for their future. We appreciate their efforts to take a stand for the truth.

C an you imagine this scenario? Well-known evangelical leaders Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Dr. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries, and Steve Douglass of Campus Crusade for Christ, joined by a conservative Roman Catholic bishop and an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, fly to several Midwestern towns with teams of Christian lawyers. They descend on the local courts and file multimillion-dollar lawsuitsdemanding that the local public schools and governments immediately cease the recognition and celebration of two-hundred-year-old (or two-thousand-year-old) cultural and historical traditions, remove all historic documents from building walls, and stop all teaching or even mentioning certain subjects to students because they violate the separation of church and state.

These leaders then discover some government employees and public school students are Muslim. They demand that Muslims quit wearing anything that would identify their faith and that all government recognition or protection of their religious liberty, including their use of public property, be halted immediately.

Could you imagine the reaction of the national secular media if such a scenario occurred? Dobson, Kennedy, Douglass, and the others would be vilified, ridiculed, and mocked for their actions. They would be labeled intolerant by the secular Left and called the American Taliban, here to create a theocracy.

This scenario has never happened and it won't. But a substantially similar one is played out regularly across America. The perpetrator? The American Civil Liberties Union, better known as the ACLU. And many in the same secular media hail the ACLU and its members as heroes.

For eight decades, the ACLU has been America's leading religious censor, waging a largely uncontested (until recently) war against America's core valuesall not only without protest but with the support of much of the mediacloaking its war in the name of liberty.

The result of this conflict is that Americans find themselves living in a country that, with each passing day, resembles less of what our nation's Founding Fathers intended when they came to these shores. We now live in a country where our traditional Christian and Jewish faith and religioncivilizing forces in any societyare openly mocked and increasingly pushed to the margins. We live in a country where parental authority is undermined and children have less protection from pornography, violent crime, and the promotion of dangerous and selfish sexual behaviors. We live in a country where the value of human life has been cheapenedfrom the moment and manner of conception to natural or unnatural death.

These seismic shifts did not happen overnight or by accident. Many are the result of a persistent, deliberate legal strategy by the ACLU and its allies to reshape America to conform to their vision. We know the ACLU did not advance its agenda in a vacuum, but it is for other writers to discuss that part of the story.

While the ACLU positions itself as the great defender of freedom, it is actively striving to eliminate the freedoms of millions of Americans. The ACLU is against the freedom of parents to pass their faith and values along to their children. It is against the freedom of organizations such as the Boy Scouts to set standard rules of conduct for their leaders. It is against the freedom of churches to publicly teach and proclaim the uncensored Word of God in the public square. It is against many of the freedoms and our nation's sovereignty that our forefathers fought and died for in the American Revolution and the many wars that followed. The ACLU and its allies work for much of what our forefathers opposed through the advocacy of international law to interpret the U.S. Constitution.

Most Americans are unaware of the most extreme positions of the ACLU. Many believe either the ACLU exists to stick up for the little guy, or it was an organization with noble beginnings but took a wrong turn somewhere along the way. This book will demonstrate neither view is the full story.

One needs only to look through one of the policy guides of the ACLU, listen to their founders and the speeches by their leaders, or go to its Web site and read actual documents it has filed in court, to get a clearer picture of the ACLU agenda. Consider these ACLU positions and imagine what America would be like if these dreams were fulfilled:

• All legal prohibitions on the distribution of obscene materialincluding child pornography are unconstitutional.
• Pornographic outlets can locate wherever they pleasewhether next to churches or day-care centers or near residential neighborhoods.
• Tax-funded libraries should not restrict access of children to pornography on the Internet.
• Parents should have no legal recourse when it comes to shielding their children from exposure to hard-core pornography.
• The military cannot enforce even the most basic codes of conductsuch as discipline for disrespectful behavior toward a superior officer.
• The military cannot stop open displays of homosexual behavior within its ranks.