jdyöung
2023-03-02 04:29:08 UTC
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by the
mayor of New York:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams angered secularists yesterday when he
spoke at an interfaith breakfast event. After his closest aide, Ingrid
Lewis-Martin, introduced him as someone who doesnt believe in
separation of church and state, her boss took the stage and said,
Ingrid is so right. Dont tell me about no separation of church and
state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out
of the body, the body dies.
Adams continued this line of thought, saying, I cant separate my
belief because Im an elected official. He then made an observation
that was just as contentious. When we took prayers out of schools,
guns came into schools.
As expected, this didnt sit well with left-wing secularists and their
religious next of kin. Rabbi Abby Stein, who is an LGBT activist, said
Adams remarks were unhinged and dangerous. Donna Lieberman of the
New York Civil Liberties Union, a militant secular organization, said
his comments left her speechless.
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Adams, said that Adams was merely trying
to show that faith guides his actions. That is no doubt true. Adams
has been in office long enough for us to know if he was literally
attempting to abridge the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers.
It is paradoxical, to say the least, to hear left-wing activists
hyperventilate over Adams speech. The fact is there is a very real
threat to separation of church and state these days, and it is coming
from organizations like the ACLU: they are using the state to encroach
on the rights of the faithful. It is not the church that is busy
abridging the rights of the state; it is the other way around.
When secularists like the ACLU lobbying for the Equality Actwhich
would allow the state to tell Catholic doctors and hospitals that they
must perform abortions and sex-reassignment surgeriesthey are showing
their contempt for separation of church and state.
While it is too facile to contend that when prayer was banned in the
schools, guns came in, it is nonetheless true that over the past half
century the schools have become radically secularized, triggering a
series of social problems. So Adams more general point merits
attention.
It is also interesting to hear the ACLU whine over Adams remarks
about separation of church and state when it never criticizes Adams,
or other black public officials, when they take to the pulpit and make
blatantly political speeches in churches when running for office.
Similarly, none of these secularists, who are usually big fans of
diversity, bothered to criticize Adams for his guest list of speakers.
He is a Protestant, and those invited to speak were Jewish, Buddhist
and Muslim leaders. In a city that is heavily Catholic, why was no
Catholic leader invited to speak?
If Adams wants to win the support of churchgoing New Yorkers, he needs
to step up to the plate and take on those school officials and
teachers who are trying to sexualize children: they have no right to
invite students to question their nature-determined sex status. That
is a true violation of the religious rights of their parents. First
Amendment anyone?
J Young
***@ymail.com
mayor of New York:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams angered secularists yesterday when he
spoke at an interfaith breakfast event. After his closest aide, Ingrid
Lewis-Martin, introduced him as someone who doesnt believe in
separation of church and state, her boss took the stage and said,
Ingrid is so right. Dont tell me about no separation of church and
state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out
of the body, the body dies.
Adams continued this line of thought, saying, I cant separate my
belief because Im an elected official. He then made an observation
that was just as contentious. When we took prayers out of schools,
guns came into schools.
As expected, this didnt sit well with left-wing secularists and their
religious next of kin. Rabbi Abby Stein, who is an LGBT activist, said
Adams remarks were unhinged and dangerous. Donna Lieberman of the
New York Civil Liberties Union, a militant secular organization, said
his comments left her speechless.
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Adams, said that Adams was merely trying
to show that faith guides his actions. That is no doubt true. Adams
has been in office long enough for us to know if he was literally
attempting to abridge the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers.
It is paradoxical, to say the least, to hear left-wing activists
hyperventilate over Adams speech. The fact is there is a very real
threat to separation of church and state these days, and it is coming
from organizations like the ACLU: they are using the state to encroach
on the rights of the faithful. It is not the church that is busy
abridging the rights of the state; it is the other way around.
When secularists like the ACLU lobbying for the Equality Actwhich
would allow the state to tell Catholic doctors and hospitals that they
must perform abortions and sex-reassignment surgeriesthey are showing
their contempt for separation of church and state.
While it is too facile to contend that when prayer was banned in the
schools, guns came in, it is nonetheless true that over the past half
century the schools have become radically secularized, triggering a
series of social problems. So Adams more general point merits
attention.
It is also interesting to hear the ACLU whine over Adams remarks
about separation of church and state when it never criticizes Adams,
or other black public officials, when they take to the pulpit and make
blatantly political speeches in churches when running for office.
Similarly, none of these secularists, who are usually big fans of
diversity, bothered to criticize Adams for his guest list of speakers.
He is a Protestant, and those invited to speak were Jewish, Buddhist
and Muslim leaders. In a city that is heavily Catholic, why was no
Catholic leader invited to speak?
If Adams wants to win the support of churchgoing New Yorkers, he needs
to step up to the plate and take on those school officials and
teachers who are trying to sexualize children: they have no right to
invite students to question their nature-determined sex status. That
is a true violation of the religious rights of their parents. First
Amendment anyone?
J Young
***@ymail.com