American Legion Takes On The ACLU
Posted on August 29, 2005
Reprinted from American Legion Website
HONOLULU, August 24, 2005 - Delegates to the nation’s largest wartime veterans organization meeting here during their 87th annual national convention forged their solidarity against legal abuse and secular cleansing of American family values and religious symbols by the ACLU and other organizations.
Four thousand delegates representing 2.7 million members unanimously passed Resolution 139 that calls upon Congress to amend the practice of using taxpayer-funded attorney fees by claims under the Equal Access to Justice.
“The 1976 Civil Rights Attorney’s Fee Awards Act was much needed legislation, but in recent years, certain groups have abused the congressional intent of this public law in ‘Establishment Clause’ lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of America, the Ten Commandments, and now veterans’ memorials, ” said Thomas P. Cadmus, National Commander of The American Legion. “And it’s time to fix it!”
“Exorbitant attorney fees awarded by Courts to be paid by American taxpayers has become the newest ‘Sword of Damocles’ strategically employed by organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to coerce settlements by cities, counties, states, and large organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and the Department of Defense by suits and threats of lawsuits against any public expression of America’s religious history, heritage, and values,” Cadmus said. “When out-of-court settlements are more cost effective than the judicial process, then the system is clearly broken.”
Cadmus lauded the introduction of HR 2679, the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA), by Rep. John Hostettler and urged all Americans to strongly support this long overdue legislation.
Long time civil rights attorney Rees Lloyd spoke to the delegation earlier in the day on what he calls the ACLU’s aggressive “secular cleansing of our America heritage through the elimination of our religious symbols and our core values of decency, citizenship and Americanism.”
Lloyd, a past commander of American Legion San Gorgonio Post 448 in Banning, Calif., worked for the ACLU at one time and is very familiar with how the ACLU’s mind-set and litigation strategies work.
“Using taxpayers’ dollars to pay these court-ordered attorney fees, especially when attacking established, traditional American values is absurd,” Lloyd said. “The list of victims continues to grow - Los Angeles County, the cities of San Diego and Redlands in California, the school boards in Chicago, Ill., and Portland, Or. the Village of Castleton, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Defense, Ten Commandments cases in Kentucky, Texas, and Alabama, and even a Veterans’ Memorial in the Mojave Desert. Who will be the next victim?
“When the mere threat of attorney’s fee is so severe that large organizations fear the consequences, then imagine the power and chilling effect it has on local elected officials faced with the threat of court-ordered, taxpayer-paid attorney fees if they do not surrender to ACLU demands to cease sponsorship of Boy Scouts, or to destroy religious symbols like the Ten Commandments,” Lloyd said.
This is great news in the fight against the ACLU. 2.7 million voices have just spoke to our Government. Add your voice too.
You can read the text of this legislation, The Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005.
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND TELL THEM TO SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION TODAY!
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I keep forgetting to go get my membership with them. I must go down to the local American leagion Hall and join up…I love these guys.
Me too, the application is in my wallet.
Kewel! Maybe we should ask them for a donation for the ad?
Has anyone ever done an analysis of just how much the ACLU has actually been awarded in those cases which it won? I only ask because, as a Member of the Bar of the State of New York, court awarded legal fees tend to be on the “cheap” side, under NY law in any event. Mind you, I’m all in favor of this action and it gave me my first smile of the day (shows what kind of day I’m having), but I’m curious as to how hard it will hit the ACLU and their “Bully Boy” tactics.
We are learning about the ACLU in Sunday school and i am so sick of them! They are always trying to take away the rights of Christians and it needs to stop! They need to think about the Declaration Of Independence where it says freedom of religion before they go sue someone for putting Godly things in public buildings! The court needs to think about that right too before they let the ACLU take away the rights of Christians! It is a bunch of crap that they need to take away our rights! I know that a lot of other people have probably already said this but what about the stuff that other religions do that offend Christians? huh? what about that?!?!? We need to get more people in this country to stand up for what is right or our nation is headed for big trouble! I am only a teenager but i don’t want the rights that adult Christians had as kids to be any different for us! So i wanna put an end to the ACLU once and for all!!!
Please every American and true patriot of america, help file a
lawsuit against the ACLU who are believers of nothing, which is worst
then any religion. My Ancestor Alexander Hamilton a writer of the
Constitution, a stateman of the Great state of New York, was a Believer
in Christ and the Holy word and they used it to help pen the Constitution
If you don’t believe me, you can research it under His bio. Our
forefathers where men of belief in something greater then themselves
is what made them great, and the book the father of our nation,
consoled, and weaped,upon to win our freedom of religion and of The
Tyrant King George of England, so how can that be unconstitutional?
If the Muslims want some infidels as they put it they should start
with the nonbelievers, and The ACLU. Make war on them not us Christians.
As a veteran our forefathers would role over in the graves to see
gods and their creation being destroyed from enemies within and
outside their country.