White Lightning Axiom: Redux

The ACLU used to be a uniquely American institution to be proud of. Now, the have finally slipped the bonds of sanity and are likening a group of Louisiana school board members to the 9/11 terror cell members.

A local ACLU director equated al-Qaida terrorists with members of a Louisiana school board seeking to open their meetings with prayer.
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Referring to the school board, Cook said, "They believe that they answer to a higher power, in my opinion. Which is the kind of thinking that you had with the people who flew the airplanes into the buildings in this country, and the people who did the kind of things in London."

Quaint.

"It's clear in a number of recent cases that the ACLU of Louisiana wants to impose a radical form of secularism that the Constitution doesn't require, and frankly, that people of this state are not willing to accept," Johnson said.
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"It's clear in a number of recent cases that the ACLU of Louisiana wants to impose a radical form of secularism that the Constitution doesn't require, and frankly, that people of this state are not willing to accept," Johnson said.
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In March, the local ACLU also asked a judge to hold the board in contempt for allowing an elementary school student to recite the Lord's Prayer before its meeting.

Public prayer at school-related functions is "un-American and immoral," Cook said at the time.

I'd be hesitant to classify this as a Red-on-Red (ACLU vs NEA) incident since it seems that Cook is using the Durbin/Dean playbook when it comes to public discourse. You would think that he would find a more appropriate way to make his point but given the absurd twist that the ACLU has taken on over the years, I suppose I should not be surprised.

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