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Friday, October 01, 2004

From the Same Folks Who Said "The Passion" Would Cause Anti-Semitism

The Anti-Defamation League successfully henpecks Riverside County to cover up a Theodore Roosevelt quote (“The true Christian is the true citizen”) that was engraved on a courthouse wall about 70 years ago.

The ADL, which seeks to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, sent a letter to the court in July stating that the quote should be covered because it could be interpreted as a direct “endorsement of Christian faith.”

Alison Mayersohn, associate director of the group’s Pacific Southwest region, said that without the original context, the quote could easily be perceived by socially vulnerable groups, particularly minorities “as equating Christianity and good citizenship.”

In other words, the ADL thinks minorities are too stupid to figure out that the quote in no way implies that one must be a Christian in order to be a true citizen. Typical elitist left-wing goofs.

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