Inalienable Human Rights Aren't Privileges (Jason Miller, Counterbias)

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Inalienable Human Rights Aren't Privileges
ACLU Sets the Standard in Struggle for “Liberty and Justice for All”

September 15 2006
Counterbias.com
by Jason Miller


Ecclesiastes tells us there is “no new thing under the sun.” Marsha West’s article entitled "American Christian Loathers Union" provides us with a pertinent and timely example of this aphorism.

Throughout the religion’s history, various practitioners of Christianity have defied the compassionate teachings of Christ to perpetrate hateful, fear-mongering, and sometimes quite lethal campaigns against those who do not share their beliefs. The Inquisitions, the Salem Witch Trials, the persecution of Galileo, the US military’s slaughter of 600,000 Filipinos in an effort to (in the words of then US President William McKinley) “uplift and civilize and christianize" them, and Focus on the Family’s steady assault on homosexuals are but a few examples.

According to her bio at the close of her article, “Ms. West is the Founder and Editor of the E-Mail Brigade News Report, an online news report for conservative people of faith," and "a freelance writer specializing in Christian worldview.” Evidently part of holding a Christian worldview involves launching vicious attacks on organizations about which one has limited knowledge. And perhaps it also includes lashing out at groups which oppose one’s viewpoint by intentionally dispersing distorted information about them.

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