Local ACLU branch loses the plot
They seem to have forgotten that Christians are the enemy:
“An incident at the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival in which ministers were prohibited from distributing religious literature has caught the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union. Marjorie Esman, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana and a part-time Breaux Bridge resident, wrote a letter May 15 to Breaux Bridge Mayor Jack Delhomme and city leaders to do what it takes to ensure that all expression, including religious expression, be allowed in public places.
The letter was prompted by reports that several ministers were stopped from distributing religious literature outside the Crawfish Festival in a public park earlier this month, she said. “The sidewalks of Breaux Bridge, as any other city, are public spaces open to everyone. They cannot be preempted by a private group for private purposes,” Esman wrote. “Neither religious nor any other speech on public streets or in public spaces may be curtailed to benefit a private group.”
Delhomme, the ministers and others are expected to meet next week to discuss the incident and determine how to avoid a similar situation in the future, City Attorney Chester Cedars said. “There is no ordinance that prohibits these individuals from doing what they were doing,” Cedars said. “Even if there was such an ordinance, it would be unconstitutional.”
In her letter to Delhomme, Esman notes that the ACLU “has a long history of supporting religious freedom and expression.” [First time I have heard of it]
Cedars said he finds that statement ironic since the ACLU threatened to sue the city of Breaux Bridge several years ago for displaying a nativity scene in a public park.
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Posted by JonJayRay on May 23, 2009 10:00 am
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Yaaaaaaaaay! You know – we have two instances locally of a similar thing happening, where the local ACLU actually surprised everyone and did the right thing. Enough to win my grudging, if cautious, admiration because they took a lot of heat for it.
Maybe the pendulum will swing after all.
They throw one out for our side every once in a while just to give the appearance of fairness. What they are really doing is trying to neutralize the criticism they have rightly earned for their anti-Christian bigotry and for their abuse of the court system in filing charges so often on behalf of a few, rather intolerant minorities. They use cases like this to bolster their position as sole arbiters of what is appropriate public conduct & what isn’t. This can’t even begin to make up for all the cases they have brought forth that probably would have been determined to be well within constitutional limits but were never heard in a court of law….as many of their causes are won by default because their targets give in to their demands rather than risk being sent to the poor house by a frivolous law suit.
The reason the ACLU is rarely seen standing up for Christians is because no one is trying to shut Christians up. Most Americans are Christian. Constitutional rights protect the rights of minorities. Constitutional rights are not needed to protect majority rights. The majority will never act to take away its own rights. Wake up people. The reason the ACLU protects unpopular groups is because the Constitution itself was written to protect unpopular or minority groups.
“because the Constitution itself was written to protect unpopular or minority groups.”
That is the stupidest statement I’ve read on the internet in a long time…..and that includes much of the comments on youtube.
Please take some time to actually read the constitution….you would then realize it is written on behalf & for the benefit of ALL US citizens….not just the jerks.
And if you don’t think anyone is attacking Christians; Christian symbols, beliefs or telling them where, when & how they can and can’t worship, you apparently haven’t been paying too much attention to the entire body of work by the ACLU….which generally lives & breaths to do just that.