The View From 1776

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Gregory Rodriguez’s column in today’s LA Times presents an interesting historical analysis of the emergence of religion as a major dividing line between Republicans and Democrats. 

He points out that, before 1972 when liberal activists took control of the party, Democrats and Republicans had similar attitudes toward religion: both assumed that the American public were overwhelmingly believers in God and therefore made no issue of religion.

Before 1972, the ACLU and others of the socialistic cohort concentrated on expanding the definition of First Amendment free speech to include actions as well as words.  Until well into the 1950s, they were advocates of the peaceful intentions and humanitarian benefits of Soviet socialism and defended any act, wartime sabotage or otherwise, that undercut the traditions of the Constitution.

Since the 1960s these left-wing groups have devoted great energy to establishing the unconstitutional doctrine of “separation of church and state,” a phrase that appears nowhere in the Constitution.  The effect is to institutionalize today’s exclusive franchise of the religion of socialism in politics and education, and to exclude spiritual religion entirely.

Mr. Rodriguez suggests that Democrats advertise their new-found religion in the same way that marketers of consumer products sell their wares: segment the market and offer a version to suit each variety of voter.  Both camps within the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, for example, presumably would find comfort within the enlarged Democratic tent.

What this means, of course, is that there is no there there.  The Democratic Party would have to conceal its real identification with atheistic materialism and rehabilitate Big Brother as Santa Claus.  Given our addiction to the welfare-state since World War II, that’s unfortunately not much of a stretch.

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