A nation under God?; the ACLU and religion in American politics.0742550885 A nation under God?; the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. and religion in American politics. Krannawitter, Thomas L. and Daniel C. Palm. Rowman & Littlefield 2005 247 pages $24.95 Paperback JC599 Krannawitter (political science, Hillsdale College As of 2006, Hillsdale's student body consists of 1,300 students, almost evenly divided on the basis of sex, with slightly more females enrolled than males. The college currently has more than 100 full-time faculty members and offers a variety of liberal arts majors, pre-professional ) and Palm (political science, Azusa Pacific U.) contend that the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. (ACLU) has no intention of closely defining the First Amendment's religion clause, which states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Instead, they assert, the ACLU routinely attacks the clause, and does so as part of an agenda to remake re·make tr.v. re·made , re·mak·ing, re·makes To make again or anew. n. 1. The act of remaking. 2. Something in remade form, especially a new version of an earlier movie or song. America along progressive if not communist lines. They argue that the ACLU was founded on this intention, that such an agenda runs counter to the intentions of those who wrote the clause, that the ACLU has every intention of continuing their efforts against mainstream faiths through the courts. Further, they write, the ACLU intends to make a mockery of the clause by electing to support the free exercise of Satanism and atheism atheism (ā`thē-ĭz'əm), denial of the existence of God or gods and of any supernatural existence, to be distinguished from agnosticism, which holds that the existence cannot be proved. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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