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Isn't she pretty?
Truly the angel's best
Lord, I'm so happy
We have been Heaven blessed
I can't believe what God has done
Through us he's given life to one
But isn't she lovely made from love
- From "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder, 1976

BANNED! Yes, banned by activists in a movement spearheaded by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. "'Lord'? 'Heaven blessed'? 'What God has done'? Oh, that will never do. People are being force-fed religion subliminally every time they turn on the radio, you see..."

It will start innocently enough: "We don't believe these pro-religious songs should be banned per se -- we just don't feel that they should be carried by radio or television stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), since that violates the separation of church and state."

So Stevie's song gets banned, along with dozens, possibly hundreds of other popular tunes, from the Doobie Brothers Jesus is still alright with me to The Devil Game by Kansas.

I suppose I'm going to have to reiterate this quite a few more times before I take the dirt nap, but: Inasmuch as the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," etcetera -- if Congress has made no law respecting an establishment of religion, no one is being threatened, no one's rights and no laws have been violated. In other words: Shut up, pack up and go home.

I am becoming increasingly nauseated at these subversive attorneys and activists who casually state: "We don't believe [whatever] should be in place" due to their fallacious interpretation of the First Amendment. They are but a handful of seditious social misfits. What they believe or feel ought to be immaterial to the majority of Americans and the judiciary, yet they are changing the face of America nonetheless.

What sickens me more is that Americans swallow their lies and the destructive changes they bring about -- I think in part because too many of us don't realize these people don't have a legal leg to stand on - until they get their frivolous cases in front of like-minded judges. I honestly believe that the average American doesn't realize that average Americans don't want to live in Caligula's Rome; when they see one of these obsequious, mincing attorneys making their case on a prime time news show, they reason: "Yeah... I guess they have a point."

Well, they don't -- unless you count the one on top of their heads.

On June 6, the Christian Broadcasting Network covered the story of a lawsuit filed by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State to cease government funding of a prison fellowship organization in Iowa. "You simply cannot fund religious ministries in prisons," said Barry Lynn, a spokespervert for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "[But] once the government starts to fund overtly religious programs, they're in constitutional quicksand."

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