Alan Sears: Free speech beats censorship
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer carries this commentary by Alan Sears, ADF’s President and General Counsel:
Things are a little crowded on the third-floor hallway of the Capitol in Olympia. The simple manger scene approved by state officials last year — under some duress, and in the face of a lawsuit — is now countered, a few feet away, by a blunt expression of atheism . . .
One wonders if the governor wishes she’d never heard of the Alliance Defense Fund. As her office pointed out in a news release, it was our legal defense of a Christian man’s First Amendment right to put a manger scene in the Capitol that highlighted this whole free speech situation in the first place. Now some people wonder if we’re sorry we sued.
Of course not . . .
As Shakespeare said, “Truth will out.” It’s that confidence that separates Christians from those who seem compelled by their philosophical insecurities to drive any reverence for God from the public square. So potent is the threat posed by prayers and hymns and manger scenes that every tenet of leftist doctrine apparently must be nurtured in isolation, with Christianity gagged and hidden from sight . . .
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Thank you Alan Sears for this powerful article and the beautifully expressed closing thoughts about our King’s First Advent!