ACLU and Allies Attempt to Shut Down Public Prayer in Ohio and Wisconsin

Posted on June 24, 2008

The number one censor of free speech, especially Christian free speech, are at it again! Via ADF Press release:

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys sent letters to public officials in two states Friday, advising leaders of both bodies regarding the constitutionality of allowing public meetings to open with prayer. Both the Greenfield City Council and the Wisconsin State Assembly have received legal threats from anti-religious organizations.

“A prayer before public meetings is one of our oldest and most cherished American traditions, and it is sad that some radical secularist groups are trying to eliminate the practice,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson. “The First Amendment allows public officials, and not the ACLU and its allies, to decide what is appropriate for acknowledging our nation’s religious history and heritage.”

Greenfield officials received a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union threatening legal action if their opening invocations are not censored or prohibited, while Wisconsin officials received a similar demand from the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

It still makes my blood boil that an organization claiming to defend religious speech is the number one censor of it. Thankfully we have groups like the ADF to counter them.

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2 Responses to “ACLU and Allies Attempt to Shut Down Public Prayer in Ohio and Wisconsin”

Mike J on June 25th, 2008 12:01 pm

ACLU won’t shut down Muslims praying. Just shows who they support!

The ACLU and the United Nations should be kicked out of the United States as they both are terrorists supporters!
B.A. on June 26th, 2008 1:21 pm

ACLU.nothing but moral decay and censorship has come from this subversive group.its time to meet them in their own arena. the problem is most of the judges are smoking the same pipe. is it true president andrew jackson took some action against activist judges in his day? if this is legal to do where will we get a president with the moral backbone to repeat the action in the 21st century? WILL NOT BE BO.