An Indiana congressman plans to curb the ACLU’s appetite for filing suits targeting religion in the public square by introducing a bill that denies plaintiff attorneys the right to collect attorneys fees in such cases.

Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., is expected to file his measure next week to amend the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. Section 1988, to prohibit prevailing parties from being awarded attorneys fee in religious establishment cases, but not in other civil rights filings.”

WND

In view of what the MaryHunter said below with regard to the founders, this is very promising news, indeed.

“The issue is about the absolute fanaticism of the ACLU and the absolute arrogance of a judiciary that says we have to wipe out of history all the evidence of our heritage,” Lloyd told the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a legal newspaper.

Our nation has a Godly Heritage…

Most people do not realize that the First Amendment says nothing about the “separation of church and state.” It simply states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….“

In the Constitution of the Soviet Union, however, the doctrine of the separation of Church and State is found: “In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the State, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens” (Article 124). Article Twelve of the 1918 Soviet Constitution decrees that no church or religious organization “shall enjoy the rights of judicial person.” Instruction of children under age 18 in religious matters, whether in public or private, is against the law.

The concept of separation of church and state in our Constitution is not there to protect Americans from religion. It is there to protect Americans from the government. But in their desire to promote their secular humanist philosophy using the power of government, many liberals today want to alter America’s heritage and remove religion from its history. Their desire is not to safeguard denominational neutrality by the state. It is to eradicate every vestige of religion from our public institutions.

Let’s hope that this bill will remove some of the ACLU’s muscle when it comes to litigating against Christians and our nation’s religious underpinnings.

Happy Mother’s Day, everyone.

Cross posted to Cao’s Blog

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1. Bill To Take Profit out of Anti Religious Suits

   An Indiana congressman plans to curb the ACLU’s appetite for filing suits targeting religion in the public square by introducing a bill that denies plaintiff attorneys the right to collect attorneys fees in such cases.

   Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind.,…

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