This guy has written a book about Bill O'Reilly whom he calls, "one of the most dishonest and deceitful persons I have ever known in my lifetime." Not surprisingly, the specific example he discusses in this post has to do with O'Reilly's attacks on the ACLU for being anti-religious. This is an extremely important point. O'Reilly is basically doing quite a bit of the dirty work for the Religious Right in their attempt to erode the separatio of church and state, which is fundamental to the religious freedom of all Americans, and to impose their narrow and intolerant religious beliefs on others. There are many people out there who would not be so willing to accept such a dangerous agenda if they were not misled by this type of propoganda into believing that organizations such as the ACLU were actively trying to limit religious freedom of Christians in this country. In this post, the author exposes what an unforgiably dishonest tactic this is because the ACLU is key to protecting the religious freedom and civil rights of Christians along with other groups. In this post he discusses one case among many (that he writes about in his book) that the ACLU has taken up in defending the rights of Christians to religious freedom:

One of the things I do in the book is I expose the tactics and the instruments O’Reilly uses to present his propaganda as “facts”. I identify eight instruments or devices he frequently utilizes to twist his lies into what he calls the “truth”. If one can grasp the underlying psychology surrounding these techniques, one will easily be able to debunk the lies and propaganda that O’Reilly engages in on a routine basis. For example, one of the techniques he constantly uses to deceive his viewers into accepting his point of view is what I call Omission. With this tactic, he deliberately omits information that does not support his argument, or leaves out facts that disprove his case. This may seem like a simple and straightforward idea, but yet it is one of the most powerful tools O’Reilly employs on a daily basis to get his propaganda across. This tactic is particularly effective because most of the time O’Reilly’s viewers don’t have all of the facts, and they tend to take what O’Reilly says and run with it. And to make matters worse, the mainstream media seems to be asleep and just lets O’Reilly get away with it without challenging him.

One of the themes he has persistently hammered home to his viewers is the falsehood that the ACLU is an anti-religious organization. He claims that the ACLU wants to remove religion from American society. In his own words, “The American Civil Liberties Union, along with legal secularists like Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and John Paul Stevens, are using the Constitution to bludgeon any form of public spirituality.” To back up his argument he would rehash the court cases that the ACLU has been involved with pertaining to the Separation Of Church And State. But what he completely omits is the fact that the ACLU has also repeatedly fought for freedom of religion in America. You wouldn’t believe it, but I myself at one time believed O’Reilly’s propaganda that the ACLU was anti-religious. It was only what I started doing my research for this book that I found out that the ACLU has been involved with many court cases fighting for the personal religious freedom of ordinary Americans. In my book I cite ten cases that the ACLU has been involved with whereby they fought consistently to protect individual’s religious rights.

One of these cases involved the issue of whether a church should be allowed to conduct baptisms in a public park, and you will probably be stunned when you find out what the ACLU’s position is on this. Here is the relevant section from Chapter Five of my book:

“On Sunday May 23, 2004 Rev. Todd Pyle of the Cornerstone Baptist Church had planned to conduct a series of baptism in Falmouth Waterside Park in Stafford County, but was advised by Brian Robinson, the Park Manager, that religious activities are not allowed in the park. The ACLU of Virginia immediately informed Rev. Pyle that he had a constitutional right to conduct baptisms in the park and threatened to challenge in federal court the Park Authority’s ban on religious activities. The Federicksburg–Stafford Park Authority which controlled access to the public park backed off and announced that it would issue written policies making it clear that religious groups have the same right to use the park as all other groups. Here is what Kent Willis, Executive Director ACLU of Virginia said about the matter: ‘The rules are really very simple, Government officials merely need to make sure that religious activities have the same rights as any other activities in a public park. If swimming is allowed, then baptism must be allowed. If groups can gather for sports or cultural activities, then groups can gather for religious ceremonies.’”