On 1, Oct. 19, 1976 Congress passed an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave the Courts the power to award attorney’s fees in civil rights cases to the prevailing party. party. ‘The Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976′ was passed with high hopes, and the good intentions that it would help provide relief for individuals that might not otherwise be able to afford the expenses of defending their civil liberties if they were violated. The ACLU, and other judicial activitist have completely turned the intentions of this amendment on its head.
Whenever the ACLU fights voluntary prayer in school, a war memorial because it’s in the shape of a cross, ten commandment displays, or keeping the boyscouts from military sponsorship, and they win, you pay for their attorney’s fees.
What was intended to protect people from having their civil rights violated has been twisted by the ACLU to use as leverage when they threaten small schools and communities that can’t afford to defend themselves from the well funded, and well staffed ACLU bully. Yes, legislation intended to protect civil liberties is often used to supress religious expression by the likes of the ACLU.
There is currently legislation in the House introduced by Representive Hostettler that hopes to remedy its abuse. It is an amendment that limits the attorney fees in Establishment Clause cases to injuctive relief only. In other words, if the ACLU wants to pick a fight over someone praying in public, or a ten commandments display that offends one sensitive athiest, they’ll have to dig into their own deep pockets, and it will not come from yours.
We want your voice to be heard in D.C. supporting this legislation. It’s really simple, all we need is your autograph.
SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE ACLU OFF THE TAXPAYER’S DOLE
Why don’t we just declare the ACLU a terrorist organization?
Thank you.
2- No problem Jay!:smile: Thank-you!
they have always been communistly oriented. that is contrary to most responsible christian folks.:oops:
HEY aL QUEDA WE DONT NEED YOU WE HAVE THE aTHEISTS cOMMUNIST AND LAWYERS UNDERGROUND doing your job for you so dont bother bombing us or attacking our shore:twisted:
boo-hoo… sour grapes it sounds like. Maybe if these poor school districts didn’t try and violate civil liberties, they would not find themselves with the attourney fees.
You reap what you sow.
No tofu, once again you missed the point. That is but one example. And note you used the words poor school districts That is the point. They go after those with less of an opportunity to fight them. And then when it is all said and done, the school is more in the red than when the fight began.
This is a case of a good idea going really bad. The framers of the Constitution would be spinning in their graves over the BS that the ACLU and the Michael Newdow (sp) crowd have been pulling. The Constitution says that CONGRESS shall make no laws about establishing a religion. It doesn’t say a damn thing about any governmental body except Congress recognizing or for that matter even establishing a religion. The various colonies were founded by different religious groups. Massachusetts was puritan Anglicans, Pennsylvania was Quakers, Maryland was Catholics, and I believe Rhode Island was Presbyterians.
The constitutional guarantee of religious freedom was a direct response to why this country was originally colonized. For those who are history educationally challenged, I would suggest you research the English Civil War and the 30 Years War. These are both examples of one or more Christian religious sects going to war against other Christian sects over disagreements in doctrine and dogma. They were both notoriously bloody and the fighting savage. The modern equivalent would be a civil war in Iraq of the Sunnis versus the Shiite. The founders were simply trying to insure that nothing of that sort happened here.
There are two parts to that comment on religion in the 1st Amendment. One says “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion”. School prayer DOES NOT VIOLATE THIS because THERE IS NO LAW PASSED BY CONGRESS REQUIRING IT. The second part of the comment on religious freedom in this country is “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. Now if Congress isn’t allowed to limit the free exercise of religion, why are the courts giving themselves powers that even Congress doesn’t have?
Any precedent that declares that school prayer unconstitutional or the Boy Scouts is a religious organization because its oath includes the word God, is patently absurd when compared to the actual wording of the Constitution.
There are those who believe that the Constitution is a “Living, Breathing document” the meaning of which is to be determined by 9 unaccountable black robed judges. It is a living, breathing growing document alright, but the way it grows is through the amendment process, not the appeals process. The system was set up so that changes to our most important legal document would be by a two thirds majority consensus and take the time necessary to insure that those changes be thought through thoroughly, not hastily made by nine people with no accountability if and when they get it wrong. The system works very well most of the time.(the 18th amendment that started prohibition was a bad idea, and I’m not so sure that 18 yr olds are really politically savvy enough to be voting.) But the Supreme Court has made worse mistakes. The Dred Scott decision being one. It’s easier to repeal a bad amendment than it is to overturn a bad Supreme Court decision. The people can easily see when an amendment is bad and vote to repeal it. The justices on the Supreme Court aren’t that easily convinced and the appeals process is designed to be long and arduous.
great post FOA
Yes Frmrartyoffrr has it right, but also think of hanging some of the ACLU People just to make the point understood. It would be fun to watch on TV.
now to get real..the ACLU Was great 50 years ago and it stood up for people; now it stands for nothing but a race and political idea that is dead. all people have a point to understand but the ACLU Has no new ideals and can’t see the real world.
Gee I guess that degree in Poli Sci with the history minor comes in handy every now and then.:grin: