Why the ACLU are not pro-progress

Few things do my head in more than religious intolerance and treating young people like mindless zombies.

Over this last week, the ACLU (a gloriously outgoing, anti religious group using 'civil rights' as a smokescreen for trying to get in the way of anything remotely religious, whilst forgetting that religion IS a civil right) attacked 'The Silver Ring Thing', an abstinence group that is aimed at secular and religious circles of young people, causing US Government funding to be dropped from the group.

Abstinence is a much needed social option, especially for young people since in the US and especially the UK, teen pregnancy rates are skyrocketing and issues surrounding younger people engaging in sex too early and too often are on the increase dispite secular efforts to encourage 'safer, fun sex'.

Sex is swiftly being viewed more and more as an adult thing to do, and a leisure activity for boyfriends and girlfriends. If you're not having sex then there's something wrong with you, since 'it's natural', we're taught.

Rather than attacking the group and others like it because they have a religious angle or a religious source, why won't the ACLU work with the group to help ensure a secular programme is included, and that there are options open to all young people, reguardless of religion or lack thereof? Surely the ACLU groups's force should centre around helping the nation, not surpressing the funding of such a fantastic effort because it happens to have a religious element to it.

It also smacks of insult to the young people who choose to use this service. Let's take stock for a moment - nobody has to sign up, and the agenda and content of the Silver Ring Thing is not at all hidden. Do the ACLU value the intelligence of the young people of America so little that they don't think they have the ability to think for themselves, discect information from a party which they volunterily joined up to, and decide for themselves what to do about God and religion?

Nanny state.

The ACLU have threatened to 'keep an eye' on this and other organisations. How nice of them, spending good money keeping an eye on those obviously 'evil and corrupting forces of Christianity', who are trying to do terrible things like helping young teens to save themselves for their spouse, avoid STDs and unwanted pregnancies.

It wouldn't be so bad if they'd just complained about the lack in their view of a full, secular programme and offered to help this group work on one. But no, they had to get their funding closed.

Well thank God, they will continue reguardless. Many teenagers will be helped, male and female. With or without you ACLU, America and the UK and the organised, western world wants what works, and if that means religion has to be mentioned because it works?

Well ... excuse us for being practical before preaching; either theistically or antheistically - something the ACLU seems to have no issue with (despite atheism being a faith position just as much as any religion).