re: #909 Aardvark

I went to the CCC site (first I’d ever heard of it) read their statement of principles, and came away thinking that they were defending culture and the Constitution.

I’m not a Christian, but, excepting the more fundamentalist religious aspects, I support Christian values. If the Christians were trying to take over the country, mandating that people of other faiths adopt Christianity, I could see that language like “A Christian nation” would be threatening, but they aren’t and they haven’t. What’s the exact beef with the site? What do they say that’s so truly alarming? Yes, the US, when it was founded, had a deep Judeo-Christian heritage. Indeed, it could be argued that 18th century America was, with only a few quibbles, a “Christian” nation.

I saw no positions mandating that Christianity be taught to everyone or that there should be a ration of churches to synagogues and mosques. What I did see was the belief that people have a right to pray in the classroom if they want to. Whoopee-doo.

They claim that the US is a European nation. So what? It was founded almost entirely by Europeans. They aren’t saying that they want to ship out non-white races, they’re saying that they’d like America to return to Western values. They state that they don’t like anti-white affirmative action. Oh, my! They said the evil “w” word! They must be racists! And yet, affirmative action as the vast majority of objective people would have to agree, is anti-white (and anti-male and anti-Asian, too).

It’s culture, not religious dogma or racism that’s being discussed, and there’s nothing wrong with advocating for a specific culture. Nothing. It’s not illegal, nor unethical, nor disingenuous to advocate one way of life over another. All societies do it, or did it before rabid multiculturalist dogma destroyed the freedom to discuss cultural matters without being branded a racist, a homophobe, a nazi, or *shivers* intolerant.

They don’t think that for some time, at least, that non-European cultures should be immigrating to America. Horrors! Racist! And yet … it isn’t unprecedented for Americans to deliberately do precisely that to preserve the American way of life, what I regard as following the spirit of the Constitution. Teddy Roosevelt wrote about American values and the essential need for immigrants to adopt them or not bother to immigrate at all. The 1920’s saw a reduction in immigration to allow the millions of recent refugees to assimilate. So now it’s racist or intolerant to advocate the same policy? I think not.

So you think that a prohibition against miscegenation, or race-mixing, is a Christian, American, or Western value? Because CCC advocates that on their site.

Furthermore:

The Constitution is perfectly fine with local populations determining their own morality. Some laws are nutty, in my opinion, but they are legal: blue laws, prohibiting liquor stores within a mile of a church, dry counties, and even, dare I say it, the teaching of religious creationism alongside evolution in local schools.

I would hate to accuse someone of being racist, or being accused of being a racist for discussing cultural matters, uttering a multiculturalist key word, or saying that this culture is better than that culture for this reason …. If there is doubt of what a person means, then I would say, ask for specifics. Ask what a phrase means or what specific laws he is advocating. If there is any doubt about the CCC and what they stand for, then I say, ask the CCC if they are pro white or support laws that discriminate in favor of whites. Ask them if they hate blacks or desire that “people of color” should be treated as anything less than full citizens.

Shouldn’t that be the American way?

The American way shouldn’t be to violate the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution by forcing the teaching of religious dogma as fact to other peoples’ kids in public high school science class.