ACLU Fails in Attack on Baptist Children’s Home
Posted on April 2, 2008
After a 10-year legal battle, a federal judge has dismissed an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against a home providing social services for at-risk children. The lawsuit claimed the home, Sunrise Children’s Services, should not receive partial expense reimbursements from the government for its needy youth programs because of the home’s religious affiliation. The Alliance Defense Fund provided funding for attorneys with the Christian Legal Society and Thomas More Law Center to defend the home in the suit.
“Faith-based organizations should not be discriminated against for their beliefs. The reimbursement Sunrise receives has never been used for religious indoctrination. It has always been used for social services that help needy kids, and we are pleased the court has dismissed this needless lawsuit. This is an important victory for faith-based social service providers,†said Tim Tracey, litigation counsel for CLS’s Center for Law & Religious Freedom.
“Sunrise Children’s Services has the same right to receive reimbursement to provide help to the children of Kentucky as any other social services provider,†said Pat Gillen, another attorney who worked on the case and now serves as a visiting professor of law at Ave Maria School of Law. “The ACLU and its allies fought long and hard to take away that right, but the court didn’t let that happen.â€
The suit began when the children’s home, formerly known as Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, dismissed Alicia Pedreira, an employee who was involved in homosexual behavior. The Kentucky ACLU attempted to characterize Pedreira’s dismissal as religious discrimination and challenged the state and federal reimbursement the home receives, claiming its religious affiliation made the reimbursement a violation of the Constitution’s Establishment Clause. The court rejected the religious discrimination claim in 2001 and ruled Monday that the plaintiffs do not have standing to challenge the reimbursements.
Typical ACLU attack on faulty grounds attacking Christianity…attacking a charitable organization helping needy children even! Thank goodness we have groups like the Alliance Defense Fund challenging these idiots!
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The country’s fallen a long way from the Founders who based their drive for Independence from tyrannical British rule on “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” that such a suit could even be brought… or that the defense against such a suit was that government funds were not used for godly (”religious”) purposes.
The Founders would have had no problem with such use. Heck, for many years AFTER the “establishment clause” was adopted in the First Amendment, many of the States still maintained state-supported clergy, and NO federal challenges were raised against such action, because the People knew the “Establishment Clause” ONLY addressed the establishment of a national religion, specific to one denomination.
Modern misreading of the First Amendment (heck, the Constitution as a whole), at the behest of communist organizations like the ACLU, is responsible for a multiple of cultural/societal sins, not the least of which is the muting of religious practice by religious folks themselves.
Not surprising the ATHEISTS,COMMUNISTS and LAWYERS.UNDERGROUND was founded by a communists