Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Fight ACLU and Curb Judicial Power
Via WND
Angered by a judge’s order to remove the giant Mount Soledad cross in San Diego, a California state lawmaker is introducing a bill to protect symbols of American heritage that have a religious aspect.
The Defense of Veterans Memorials Act would be the first state legislation of its kind, mirroring the federal Public Expression of Religion Act, introduced in the House last year, which would remove from judges the authority to award attorney fees, or damages to groups such as the ACLU.
You can read all about the Public Expression of Religion Act, and how you can help get it passed into law, at this link. It is sound legislation that seeks to curb the ACLU on a national level, and it needs to be enacted.
Pointing out “separation of church and state” is not mentioned in the Constitution, the California bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Jim Battin, said the term should not be used to “destroy any remnants or images of Christianity.”
“The hatred of a religious symbol is not a just cause to tear down memorials that hold noteworthy meaning,” he said. “Is the Arlington National Cemetery next on the hit list?”
The bill is scheduled for hearing today in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Battin, whose bill was introduced at the urging of the American Legion, said there has been a dramatic increase in litigation in California and around the country by special interest organizations against the public display of symbols of America’s history and heritage.
Cities have been strong-armed into removing religious symbols from their city seals, law enforcement emblems and city property because they can’t afford to defend themselves, Battin pointed out.
“The very threat of imposition of attorney fees or damages in such cases,” said a statement by Battin, “has a coercive and chilling effect on debate, deliberation and decision-making by public officials when faced with the duty to decide what symbols of our American history or heritage may or may not be displayed in the public sphere without offending somebody, if those symbols, no matter how historical, traditional, or time honored, contain a religious symbol.”
In Los Angeles, for example, the ACLU threatened the county Board of Supervisors with a lawsuit if officials did not remove a small cross from among the many symbols on its more than 50-year-old county seal
Members of the board, which voted 3-to-2 to comply with the ACLU’s demand, publicly said they feared court-ordered attorney fees to be paid by taxpayer funds if the ACLU were to prevail.
Nevertheless, the county was faced with paying an estimated $1 million to replace all its seals.
“Laws that were created to preserve religious freedom and protections are now being manipulated to destroy them,” said Battin. “This is inherently wrong. My bill aims to keep scare-tactics and threats of costly lawsuits from determining the outcome on such suits.”
We pray for the success of this bill, and for all those fighting for religious liberty and America’s history. We ask that you do the same. Prayer is one of the most powerful weapons we have in this spiritual war. The ACLJ are also fighting for the cross. Sign their petition!
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It’s nice to see elected representatives like Jim Battin stand up for the beliefs of the vast majority of American citizens.
Why does it pain the ACLU so to accept America’s Christian heretage?
“Prayer is one of the most powerful weapons we have in this spiritual war.”
In that case, you might as well throw up a white flag right now. In terms of effectiveness, prayer’s track record is equal to that of animal sacrifice, rain dances, and coin flipping.
Thank you for your opinion, I’ll pray for you.
Put up all the religious crap you want on your own land and with your own money, but keep it the hell off of public property and don’t use public funds to pay for it. Pretty simple, really.
I tried the prayer thing for a good ten years or so, but it really didn’t get me anywhere. Life has only gotten better since I gave it up.
“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”
“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.”
-Authors Unknown
Thanks for your prayers, Jay et al., but we’ll take care of ourselves.
You’re a wacknut troll, it appears, which is one of the wonderful things about Jay’s website; we get to feast on roasted moonbat quite frequently over here.
As to your ‘trying the prayer thing’ I feel sorry for you, and will continue praying for your kind that you might one day wake up.
There is no such verbiage as ’separation of church and state’ in the Constitution or any of the founding documents.
This is the reason why across the country for decades there have been prayers at the beginning of city council meetings, at the beginning of the inauguration, at the beginning of boy scout meetings, etc.
We have every right to be out there in public talking about the Word of God, quoting from it, and displaying creches, and whatever the hell else we damned please….regardless what you cretins have to say about it.
It’s in the Soviet Union where it’s illegal to teach a child about religion…maybe you should live there since people are only allowed to learn about that kind of thing legally until they’re 18 years or older.
Now if you guys have your way, I’m sure you’d like to recreate that communist utopia over here because communism didn’t work because ‘the right people weren’t in charge’.
But get a clue. It has never worked, and communism is the antithesis of everything we Christians stand for which is why a lot of us end up tortured, imprisoned, etc.–just like what happened recently in Egypt.
We’re facing the encroachment of some pretty frightening things today, and it’s about time people joined the Christian Underground and started being a lot more vocal about their beliefs.
The Right Brothers have a song about this outrage, which is very fitting.
If You Ain’t Outraged
Written by: Aaron Sain/Frank Highland
You can go downtown and the tax payers money will help you kill your baby.
Go across the street to the courthouse and the Ten Commandments can’t be found.
You can’t even say the Pledge of Allegiance and not offend someone lately.
You can cuss out your teacher in the classroom but you can’t pray to God out loud!
Chorus:
If you ain’t outraged you ain’t paying attention!
If you’re not ticked off, either you don’t know what’s going on or just don’t care.
‘Cause every time you turn around
Something new’s dragging this country down…
If you ain’t outraged you ain’t paying attention!
They tried to stop “The Passion” but they think the truth is in “Fahrenheit 911”.
They hate the Constitution but they love judges legislating from the bench.
If Michael Moore became the president they’d think they’d died and gone to heaven.
Can’t stand “fair and balanced” but can’t get enough of the U.N. and the French!
Since I’m at it I thought I’d quote one more which is appropriate:
Tolerate This
Written by: Aaron Sain/Frank Highland
I heard you found a new religion that’s got nothing to do with God.
They’re politically correct, a liberated little sect, the self appointed “tolerance squad”.
You say that you’ve been ‘enlighted’ and the problem lies with people like me.
You say that you’re ‘tolerant’ and ‘open-minded’, well, here’s your chance to prove it to me!
Chorus
(Tolerate this) I believe in marriage between a woman and a man
(Tolerate this) I believe in driving the biggest car I can
(Tolerate this) A good old fashioned spanking is necessary, not cruel!
You’re preaching tolerance to me while you’re standing there shaking your fist.
Well, tolerate this!
You claim to be so accepting but all you do is yell at people like me.
Up in my face, invading my space, telling me what I should believe!
And when it comes to religion Christianity tops your list.
You say that you’re tolerant well here’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is!
(Tolerate this) I believe in Jesus and prayer in public school,
(Tolerate this) I believe that evolution makes a monkey out of you!
(Tolerate this) I don’t believe in separation of the church and state…
You’re preaching “tolerance” to me while you’re standing there shaking your fist.
Well, tolerate this!
I own a Smith and Wesson and a shotgun, too!
I think the Founding Fathers wouldn’t tolerate you!
(Tolerate this) I think that Global Warming is just a bunch of crap!
You’re preaching tolerance to me while you’re standing there shaking your fist.
So take a look in the mirror the next time you’re pitchin’ a fit and..
Then tolerate this!
Captain irrational, you’re showing your clear and obvious ignorance in this case. This is not about spending public money on anything — it’s about the ACLU trying to violently remove any semblance of religion from America. You go ahead with your life of bliss (in your ignorance) — but stop trying to tell me what to do with my life — as the ACLU and anyone who agrees with them in this case is trying to do.
cao, I know you can’t do much about your inherent lack of brainpower, but you can at least get someone to help you craft a screed that doesn’t make your basic stupdity so glaringly obvious. Painting godless people as communists only works on other god-lovers, because it’s a ridiculous charge. Under Stalin, the USSR much more closely resembled a medieval theocracy than a truly godless nation. Remember Lysenko? (No, I know you don’t, but no matter). Do you regard communist Russia as a place where free inquiry and critical thinking was encouraged, or was it more like the climate during the Inquisition?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
By the way, I’m blessedly free of religious superstitions, but I also would never be in favor of state-supported atheism. The issue here is control, and n one has the right to tell others what to think. But in modern-day America that’s exactly what you and your misguided, crap-spewing fellow godlickers relish most. I’ll pray for you to be run over by a truck only because I know it won’t work, as I’m actually a great, forgiving, and magnanimous guy.
Thanks to cao and Ogre for calling me names, totally misrepresenting my viewpoints, making crazy assumptions, telling me to go to the Soviet Union (where’s that again?), and accusing me of trying to destroy your religion when what I really said is quite simple. That’s very noble of you.
I guess I can’t stop you from praying for me, but beware: I have an invisible anti-prayer cloak! Any prayers directed at me or said on my behalf bounce right off and turn into beautiful butterflies. You know that’s where they come from, right?