Stop the ACLU: Stop Taxpayer Funding for the Secularization of America
(Crossposted from Stop the ACLU)
It
happens somewhere in America almost everyday. Some small school, city
counsel or County Courthouse gets sued. Perhaps your town has a
historical monument to honor the dead from WWII that just so happens to
be shaped like a cross. Or maybe your child’s school will be having a
winter break instead of Christmas this year. Whatever it is, don’t fool
yourself…it could happen to your town. And what will happen when it
does? What will happen when the ACLU comes into your backyard? Will
your town stand up for its religious liberties, or fold? The ACLU will
go full force and has plenty of money to back it up. Does your town
have the funds to defend itself? The ACLU has the backing of huge
liberal groups, funded to the tee. How doe your town stack up?
Don’t
think it couldn’t happen to you. Right now, there are those out there
watching it happen to them. What can you do? If the ACLU wins, guess
who pays for it? Thats right, you do.
I found the following at ReclaimAmerica.Org
U.S. Representative John Hostettler has introduced legislation
which seeks to prevent the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from
collecting millions of dollars in court awards when they seek to remove
symbols of the Christian faith from society.
The Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005 (H.R. 2679) would prevent secular organizations from collecting attorney fees after suing communities to remove memorial crosses, Ten Commandments displays,
or any other vestige of the Christian faith. The legislation reads,
“The remedies with respect to a claim under this section where the
deprivation consists of a violation of a prohibition in the
Constitution against the establishment of religion shall be limited to
injunctive relief.”
I found this at
ACLU Generates Revenue in Courtroom Campaign
The
ACLU was awarded $156,960 after a judge overturned an amendment to the
Nebraska Constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one
woman. The amendment was approved by 70 percent of Nebraska voters.
The
ACLU was given $790,000 after suing to nullify a lease between the city
of San Diego and the Boy Scouts of America. A federal judge sided with
the ACLU, ruling that the Boy Scouts are a religious organization
because they require kids to pledge an oath to God and promise to live
a “morally straight”
$150,000 = Barrow County (Ga.)
The ACLU was awarded $150,000 after suing to remove a display of the Ten Commandments from the Barrow County Courthouse.
$615,500 = Florida Supreme Court
The
Florida Supreme Court established the Florida Bar Foundation and then
commissioned the foundation to provide $615,500 to the ACLU of Florida
between the years of 1990 and 1997.
The ACLU was awarded $121,500 after suing to remove a monument outside of the Kentucky Capitol building.
The ACLU was awarded a whopping $277,000 after suing to overturn a state law against abortion in 1994.
In 2001, the ACLU was awarded more than $299,500 after suing to overturn abortion regulations in Kentucky.
A Tennessee County was forced to pay the ACLU $50,000 after losing a legal battle to preserve a display of the Ten Commandments.
$37,037 = Loudoun County (Va.)
The
ACLU was awarded $37,037 after winning a lawsuit to prevent a Loudoun
County (Va.) from installing pornography filters on public library
computers.
Following
the lawsuit, involving former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy
Moore, to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the
Alabama Supreme Court building, state taxpayers were forced to pay
nearly $550,000 in attorney fees and court costs. Of that, $175,000
went to the ACLU.
Taxpayers
were forced to give the ACLU a whopping $63,000 after their lawsuit to
remove a World War One Memorial Cross from the Mojave National
Preserve.
$74,462 = Habersham County (Ga.)
The
ACLU received $74,462 from Georgia taxpayers after suing to remove a
Ten Commandments display from the Habersham County (Ga.) Courthouse.
$25,000 = Pulaski County (Ark.)
The
ACLU was awarded $25,000 after suing an Arkansas county for telling the
child’s parents that the 14-year-old boy was living an openly gay
lifestyle in school.
The
ACLU is scheduled to receive $135,000 from Cobb County taxpayers, after
suing the county to remove warning stickers from the district biology
books. The stickers simply read, “Evolution is a theory, not a fact.”
The
city of Pasco, Washington was forced to pay the ACLU $75,000 after they
lost a lawsuit to remove the painting of a naked woman from the Pasco
City Hall.
Residents
in Seattle, Washington, were ordered to pay $52,000 to the ACLU — for
defending a student’s “right” to mock the assistant principal in a
sexual online parodies … sodomizing Homer Simpson and appearing in
Viagra commercials.
$6,000,000 = American taxpayers
The
ACLU, along with other pro-abortion organizations, have shared in court
awards estimated to be worth roughly six million dollars following the
Supreme Court’s decision in which they declared the Nebraska partial
birth abortion ban unconstitutional. Reportedly, these lawsuits
affected thirty states.
After
suing London, Ohio, for allowing their football coach to host a
voluntary prayer for athletes, the ACLU was awarded $18,000 in attorney
fees.
$110,000 = Multnomah County (Oregon)
Incredibly,
Multnomah County taxpayers were asked to pay a whopping $110,000 after
the ACLU sued them for allowing the Boy Scouts of America to recruit on
public school campuses.
Operation
Rescue was ordered to pay the ACLU $111,000 after losing a lawsuit in
which the ACLU sought to prevent the organization from picketing near
abortion clinics.
$230,000 = San Diego (California)
San
Diego residents were forced to pay $230,000 in legal costs in an effort
to defend the Mount Soledad Cross (a memorial to the Korean War) from
an ACLU lawsuit. The Korean War Memorial had been established in 1952.
Don’t
let it happen to your town, or if it is going to happen…don’t pay for
it. Reclaiming America has put together a petition that already has
over 100,000 signatures. We also have a petition asking for the same
thing, to stop taxpayer funding of the ACLU in Establishment Clause
cases. You can sign both petitions here. Help us curb the secularization of America.
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Comment by Jay | October 13, 2005
How about trying to prevent cities from violating the US Constituion?
Wouldn’t that be a better strategy than try to fight the organization who fights for people after their constitutional rights have been violated?
RESPONSE:
You haven’t actually read the Constitution, have you?
Comment by EC Boarder | October 21, 2005