ACLU’s Agenda in Georgia Receives Setback
Posted on January 15, 2006
Once again the ACLU tips it’s hand…
From an article in Access North Georgia:
A federal judge in Atlanta denied a request for a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit filed by the Georgia Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to stop Cobb County from making prayers before meetings that it contended were “too Christian.”
U.S. District Judge Richard Story issued the order late Friday, refusing to make the prayers stop until the case is decided.
“The plaintiffs have not persuasively explained how being exposed to prayers with sectarian references interferes with their ‘right of conscience’ within the meaning of the Georgia Constitution, nor have they shown any government-imposed obstacle to their ability to worship (or not) in a manner they see fit,” according to Story’s order.
In the lawsuit, filed last August on behalf of seven Cobb residents, the ACLU cited one prayer that ended, “in the name of Jesus our savior,” and dozens more since 2003 that mentioned Jesus.
While not challenging the commission’s right to pray before meetings, the ACLU said the commission can’t make prayers that are too overtly Christian.
Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens, named in the lawsuit, has said the prayers do meet the requirements for the separation of church and state.
The county is “very inclusive,” inviting clergy of different faiths to lead the prayers, Olens said. Story noted the fact in his order, denying the contention that Cobb was illegally preferring one religion over another.
Notice they have no problem with prayer, just Christian prayer. They take out political ads against the President. They fight for terrorist, rapist, and pedophile rights, but it is Christianity that seems to bother them the most. I ask you, as non-Christian, which one of those above bother you the most?
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I just read about this in today’s AJC. Thank goodness for common sense judges. I welcome the next three years of conservative judge appointments. It is the only solution to putting down (FORCEFULLY putting down) the ACLU and their anti-Christian agenda once and for all.
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“can’t make prayers that are too overtly Christian.”
I fail to see the sense in this, or the legality. I can understand a battle in court whether or not praying in Jesus’ name is Constitutional or not (it is)but say they can’t be “overly” Christian is just weird. Either keep prayer or ban it, but to say there is a half way seems odd.
During the forties and fifties, there was an anti-Catholic bias that ran parallel to anti semitism. Now there is a definite anti christian bias. This predjudice is not only about religion. It is about morals. All religions are steeped in morality and they are all relatively the same.
In order to foist immorality among us, religion must be scrupulously erased from our culture. Most people, religious or not, live moral upstanding lives. We are being punished by a small monority of libertines.
What is worse, we are paying tax dollars for our own punishment. Just like the Chinese families who have to pay for the bullets used to execute their loved ones.
apostle: that’s “overtly” (i.e., openly or obviously), not “overly.”
“Notice they have no problem with prayer, just Christian prayer.”
No, I didn’t notice. Are there sect-specific prayers derived from other faiths sneaking through in Cobb County meetings? Are they allowing mention of Allah, Vishnu and Ahura Mazda in prayers?
Like many, I am really not concerned whether someone wants to fire off a mention of Jesus here and there. But to state that Christians are being singled out is wrong. It may appear that way only because the vast majority of overtly (there’s that word again!) religious people in America are Christian, but this is a statistical artifact, not evidence of Christians being unfairly and specifically targeted.