School Censors Kindergartener’s Religious Expression
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under ACLU | 8 Comments
Imagine this! Your 5 year old child is in Kindergarten, and the assigns them homework to create a poster on how to save the environment. Your child expresses their creativity with a colorful picture that includes children holding hands around a globe, people picking up trash, clouds, grass, and a robed, praying figure [...]
Read More..>>The ACLU is Against Christianity, Not Prayer
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under ACLU, Church And State | 6 Comments
Officials from Cobb County opened each meeting with prayer. Many times they mentioned Jesus in their prayers. The ACLU says that they have nothing against public prayer, but they do have something against Jesus. The ACLU has now filed a lawsuit saying it is unconstitutional for the officials to mention Jesus. Cobb Country Officials are [...]
Read More..>>Miers Confirmation Hearings November 7
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under News | Comments Off
Confirmation hearings for White House counsel Harriet Miers, President Bush’s choice to succeed Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, will commence the first full week of November.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said the decision to start the hearings on Nov. 7 was passed on to Republican Judiciary Committee members by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., at [...]
Miers Backed Ban on Abortion in 1989 Campaign
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under News | 2 Comments
Via NY Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - Harriet E. Miers, the Supreme Court nominee, disclosed on Tuesday a 1989 survey in which she supported banning abortion except to protect the life of the pregnant woman. The disclosure alarmed abortion rights supporters but failed to assuage the concerns of some conservative Republicans.
Ms. Miers’s answers to the survey [...]
The U.N. Teams Up With The ACLU Against America
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under News | 4 Comments
SAN FRANCISCO, October 18 (OneWorld) - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. government’s failure to submit its own report.
The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, [...]
Here’s Your Sign ACLU Meme
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under ACLU | 3 Comments
Apparently people don’t realize that I hate meme’s, but this one was my kind of meme. Since I’ve been tagged twice now, I guess I better get to work.
David at Third World County started this thing. A Lady’s Ruminations, and Kender’s Musings.
So here’s the question:
“If you could hang a sign on the ACLU [...]
