ACLU's 'Search and Destroy' Agenda
 
Search and Destroy missions involve sending out a group of soldiers from a base camp to seek out and destroy the enemy. Often under the cover of darkness a squad or platoon is sent out to set up an ambush for any unsuspecting enemy that might come along.  These soldiers conceal themselves and wait to spring the ambush if the enemy wanders into the trap.  In a similar way the Bible gives an illustration of Satan lying in wait to ambush Christians.  Paul says, "Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour."
 
In that same vein, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the 'Devourer of Religion.'  The vast majority of Americans view the ACLU's hit-squad as God-haters that desire to destroy all vestiges of religion in the public square, and all Judeo-Christian values and beliefs.  Why?  Because religion gets in the way of their secular-progressive agenda.  (See below)  ACLU lawyers have done more to attack Christianity than any other organization in America today.
 
All of this is done under the guise of the alleged 'wall of separation between church and state.' This often used phrase is normally attributed to the Constitution.  In actuality it came from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in response to the Danbury Baptist's concern over a rumor they had heard that the American government was going to set up a national church, much like the Anglican Church in England. In the letter, Jefferson explained to the clergymen that the Founding Fathers had set up a wall of separation between church and state to prevent that from happening in America.
 
"Thomas Jefferson had no intention of allowing the government to limit, restrict, regulate, or interfere with public religious practices. He believed, along with the other Founders, that the First Amendment had been enacted only to prevent the federal establishment of a national denomination-a fact he made clear in a letter to fellow-signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Rush:

'[T]he clause of the Constitution which, while it secured the freedom of the press, covered also the freedom of religion, had given to the clergy a very favorite hope of obtaining an establishment of a particular form of Christianity through the United States; and as every sect believes its own form the true one, every one perhaps hoped for his own, but especially the Episcopalians and Congregationalists. The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes and they believe that any portion of power confided to me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly.'

"Jefferson had committed himself as President to pursuing the purpose of the First Amendment: preventing the 'establishment of a particular form of Christianity' by the Episcopalians, Congregationalists, or any other denomination." [1]

Jefferson, in his private letter to the Baptists, was not calling for absolute separation!  Regardless, in 1947 the Supreme Court took a simple statement intended to imply that government wouldn't interfere with the church and they distorted it.  The court used Jefferson's letter to create a new interpretation of the First Amendment.  The result was an interpretation that went well beyond the Framer's original intent.
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