If the secularists were truly sincere about their affinity for the phantom principle of “separation of church and state,” they would be having seizures over this government-funded charter school imposing its values on school children. They would object to the education establishment’s emphasis on social engineering over academic achievement. They would go berserk over the schools’ speech and conduct codes disguised as anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies. They would be outraged over the “comprehensive” sex-education curriculum being foisted on many of our schoolchildren.
No, you won’t hear from the secularists on these issues. They reserve their ire for Christians, such as General Boykin, who has dared to disclose his Christian faith while holding an important position in the Defense Department. Christianity, to the secularists, is a disqualifying attribute for public office. And if Christians somehow slip through the screening obstacles, they must keep their Christian beliefs strictly to themselves. Ask John Ashcroft, Rick Santorum, William Pryor, David Hager, Jerry Thacker and the countless other Christian appointees and officials whose public service has been opposed by those who believe Christians shouldn’t be allowed to participate in government or the political process.
The secularists also reserve their energy and passion for promoting such high-minded ideals as the open and unfettered dissemination of Internet pornography. The ACLU is apparently concerned that any efforts to protect the innocence of our children from the oppressive bombardment of Internet smut is merely the first step on that slippery slope that will eventually lead to the evaporation of our liberties.
You see, what we must realize is that these secular civil libertarians who are cloaked in freedom costumes are often the most insidious opponents of freedom and traditional values in our culture. They can talk freedom until they’re blue in the face, but it is not freedom they champion, but a certain worldview -- to the exclusion of biblical Christianity.