It happens somewhere in America almost everyday. Some small school, city counsel or County Courthouse gets sued. Perhaps your town has a historical monument to honor the dead from WWII that just so happens to be shaped like a cross. Or maybe your child’s school will be having a winter break instead of Christmas this year. Whatever it is, don’t fool yourself…it could happen to your town. And what will happen when it does? What will happen when the ACLU comes into your backyard? Will your town stand up for its religious liberties, or fold? The ACLU will go full force and has plenty of money to back it up. Does your town have the funds to defend itself? The ACLU has the backing of huge liberal groups, funded to the tee. How doe your town stack up?

Don’t think it couldn’t happen to you. Right now, there are those out there watching it happen to them. What can you do? If the ACLU wins, guess who pays for it? Thats right, you do.

I found the following at ReclaimAmerica.Org

U.S. Representative John Hostettler has introduced legislation which seeks to prevent the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from collecting millions of dollars in court awards when they seek to remove symbols of the Christian faith from society.

The Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005 (H.R. 2679) would prevent secular organizations from collecting attorney fees after suing communities to remove memorial crosses, Ten Commandments displays, or any other vestige of the Christian faith. The legislation reads, “The remedies with respect to a claim under this section where the deprivation consists of a violation of a prohibition in the Constitution against the establishment of religion shall be limited to injunctive relief.”

ACLU Generates Revenue in Courtroom Campaign

$156,960 = Nebraska

The ACLU was awarded $156,960 after a judge overturned an amendment to the Nebraska Constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The amendment was approved by 70 percent of Nebraska voters.

$790,000 = San Diego

The ACLU was given $790,000 after suing to nullify a lease between the city of San Diego and the Boy Scouts of America. A federal judge sided with the ACLU, ruling that the Boy Scouts are a religious organization because they require kids to pledge an oath to God and promise to live a “morally straight”

$150,000 = Barrow County (Ga.)

The ACLU was awarded $150,000 after suing to remove a display of the Ten Commandments from the Barrow County Courthouse.

$615,500 = Florida Supreme Court

The Florida Supreme Court established the Florida Bar Foundation and then commissioned the foundation to provide $615,500 to the ACLU of Florida between the years of 1990 and 1997.

$121,500 = Kentucky

The ACLU was awarded $121,500 after suing to remove a monument outside of the Kentucky Capitol building.

$277,000 = Kentucky

The ACLU was awarded a whopping $277,000 after suing to overturn a state law against abortion in 1994.

$299,500 = Kentucky

In 2001, the ACLU was awarded more than $299,500 after suing to overturn abortion regulations in Kentucky.

$50,000 = Tennessee

A Tennessee County was forced to pay the ACLU $50,000 after losing a legal battle to preserve a display of the Ten Commandments.

$37,037 = Loudoun County (Va.)

The ACLU was awarded $37,037 after winning a lawsuit to prevent a Loudoun County (Va.) from installing pornography filters on public library computers.

$175,000 = Alabama

Following the lawsuit, involving former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building, state taxpayers were forced to pay nearly $550,000 in attorney fees and court costs. Of that, $175,000 went to the ACLU.

$63,000 = California

Taxpayers were forced to give the ACLU a whopping $63,000 after their lawsuit to remove a World War One Memorial Cross from the Mojave National Preserve.

$74,462 = Habersham County (Ga.)

The ACLU received $74,462 from Georgia taxpayers after suing to remove a Ten Commandments display from the Habersham County (Ga.) Courthouse.

$25,000 = Pulaski County (Ark.)

The ACLU was awarded $25,000 after suing an Arkansas county for telling the child’s parents that the 14-year-old boy was living an openly gay lifestyle in school.

$135,000 = Cobb County (Ga.)

The ACLU is scheduled to receive $135,000 from Cobb County taxpayers, after suing the county to remove warning stickers from the district biology books. The stickers simply read, “Evolution is a theory, not a fact.”

$75,000 = Pasco (Wash.)

The city of Pasco, Washington was forced to pay the ACLU $75,000 after they lost a lawsuit to remove the painting of a naked woman from the Pasco City Hall.

$52,000 = Seattle (Wash.)

Residents in Seattle, Washington, were ordered to pay $52,000 to the ACLU — for defending a student’s “right” to mock the assistant principal in a sexual online parodies … sodomizing Homer Simpson and appearing in Viagra commercials.

$6,000,000 = American taxpayers

The ACLU, along with other pro-abortion organizations, have shared in court awards estimated to be worth roughly six million dollars following the Supreme Court’s decision in which they declared the Nebraska partial birth abortion ban unconstitutional. Reportedly, these lawsuits affected thirty states.

$18,000 = London (Ohio)

After suing London, Ohio, for allowing their football coach to host a voluntary prayer for athletes, the ACLU was awarded $18,000 in attorney fees.

$110,000 = Multnomah County (Oregon)

Incredibly, Multnomah County taxpayers were asked to pay a whopping $110,000 after the ACLU sued them for allowing the Boy Scouts of America to recruit on public school campuses.

$111,000 = Operation Rescue

Operation Rescue was ordered to pay the ACLU $111,000 after losing a lawsuit in which the ACLU sought to prevent the organization from picketing near abortion clinics.

$230,000 = San Diego (California)

San Diego residents were forced to pay $230,000 in legal costs in an effort to defend the Mount Soledad Cross (a memorial to the Korean War) from an ACLU lawsuit. The Korean War Memorial had been established in 1952.

Don’t let it happen to your town, or if it is going to happen…don’t pay for it. Reclaiming America has put together a petition that already has over 100,000 signatures. We also have a petition asking for the same thing, to stop taxpayer funding of the ACLU in Establishment Clause cases. You can sign both petitions here. Help us curb the secularization of America.

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Said Jay777 @ 9:58 am | Permalink   

1. You probably should have read your links before citing them as evidence that the ACLU is milking the American taxpayer. Attornies are going to get paid if they win. Perhaps these government groups should not have violated the constitution. Then they wouldn’t have been sued and damages awarded when they lost. Seems to me the taxpayers beef should be with the individuals within the government groups that engaged in wrongdoing.

   Comment by Carol — 10/13/2005 @ 6:05 pm

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2. “Stop Paying for the Secularization of America”…

   Are you f-ing serious? IT IS SECULAR! And it better stay that way, or there’s gonna be another revolution. And it WON’T be the South rising again. I guarantee it.

   Some religious nuts start organizing society to tell me what I can and can’t do and you’ll now why so many of us ‘non-conservatives’ belong to the NRA.

   Comment by mojotek — 10/13/2005 @ 6:15 pm

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3. I agree, the judicial branch should be held accountable too for ruling such ridiculous crap!

   Comment by Jay — 10/13/2005 @ 6:49 pm

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4. Carol, the attornies work pro bono, for the most part,a nd the bulk of that oney goes back to the ACLU. Regardless of what you wish, a nitivity scene is not an andorsement of religion……never mind.

   You and that other idiot mojoless will never understand the difference between the phrases “reagarding an establishment of religion” (the way it IS written) and regarding a religious establishment” (they way the liberal judges and subversives in the aclu interpret it.

   Besides, since there is no LAW that states nativity scenes must be up and crosses must be present, then all of the arguments the aclu and other idiots like yourselves have tried to put forward are actually moot points and all of those rulings should be overturned.

   But I don’t expect morons like you guys to understand that.

   Carol? Go take your meds, open a new box of wine, or whine, and fall asleep in front of the tv…..if you hurry I hear PBS is running an expose of of the robot that has replaced the real Cheney.

   Comment by Kender — 10/14/2005 @ 1:17 am

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5. Carol, do you work? Are you gainfully employed? If you are, then YOU are the one GIVING money to the ACLU. That’s the point of this post.

   TAXPAYERS are paying for a private group to sue taxpayers so they can fund themselves. If you don’t see anything wrong with that, your vision is SO clouded that I don’t think anything will help you see reality.

   Comment by Ogre — 10/14/2005 @ 3:50 am

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6. America isn’t “secular”–Russia is. That’s why it’s illegal to teach a kid about religion until he’s over 18 years old in Russia. Is that true in the US? No.

   Saddam’s Iraq was “secular”…that’s why every single ethnic and religious group was persecuted by the regime at one time or another.

   The Bible was a textbook in public schools until the ’60’s, at which time evolution was not underscored. But in 1959, the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Origin of the Species”, the National Science Foundation, a government agency, granted $7million to the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, which began producing high school biology textbooks with a strong evolutionary slant. In the meantime, the Supreme Court ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional (after having been consitutional for more than 150 years). From then on, students in public schools heard the evolutionist only viewpoint–man is just an animal–almost exclusively.

   Will Durant, author of the Story of Civilization, was one of the preeminent historians of our time. Shortly before his death, he said,

   “By offering evolution in place of God as a cause of history, Darwin removed the theological basis of the moral code of Christendom. And the moral code that has no fear of God is very shaky. That’s the condition we are in.”

   The First Charter of Virginia (granted by King James I, on April 10, 1606)

   We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God…

   Instructions for the Virginia Colony (1606)

   Lastly and chiefly the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God the Giver of all Goodness, for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.

   William Bradford
   • wrote that they [the Pilgrims] were seeking:
   • 1) “a better, and easier place of living”; and that “the children of the group were being drawn away by evil examples into extravagance and dangerous courses [in Holland]“
   • 2) “The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world”
   The Mayflower Compact (authored by William Bradford) 1620

   “Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together…”

   John Adams and John Hancock:
   We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]

   John Adams:

   “ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

   • “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
   –John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

   “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” –October 11, 1798

   “I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.” December 25, 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson

   Comment by Cao — 10/14/2005 @ 3:52 am

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7. “Perhaps these government groups should not have violated the constitution.”

   Give me a break, Carol. Have you even read the document? Tell me where any of this violates the constitution. You liberals use that unconstitutional label anytime, you see something you don’t like.

   I am far from being religious, but I will say one thing. Liberals do not want equality for anybody. They want empowerment for themselves. And when they say they want all religions to be equal in the eyes of the government, they do it by trying to destroy Christianity and its symbols by claiming it is offensive.

   Comment by LASunsett — 10/14/2005 @ 3:56 am

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8. I would say the secularists have violated the constitution by ignoring that inconvenient part of the Establishment Clause in order to promote their Stalinist views:

   “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”

   Every single time a court case strikes down the ability for people to freely exercise their religious freedoms which for over 150 years was something that was not in dispute–they are violating “prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.

   This is literally shoving Marxism down our throats.

   Joseph Stalin murdered milions, and in 1940, a book was published in Moscow entitled “Landmarks in the life of Stalin”. It states:

   At a very early age, while still a pupil in the eccelesiastical school, Comrade Stalin developed a critical mind and revolutionary sentiments. He began to read Darwin and became an atheist.

   G. Gludjidze, a boyfriend friend of Stalin’s, relates:

   I began to speak of God. Joseph heard me out, and after a moment’s silence, said:

   “You know, they are fooling us, there is no God…”

   I was astonished at these words. I had never heard anything like it before.

   “How can you say such things, Soso?” I exclaimed.

   “I’ll lend you a book to read; it will show you that the world and all living things are quite different from what you imagine, and all this talk about God is sheer nonsense,” Joseph said.

   “What book is that?” I enquired.

   “Darwin. You must read it.” Joseph impressed on me.

   Comment by Cao — 10/14/2005 @ 4:05 am

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9. Mojo,

   Go take some meds, nobody said one damned thing about forcing you to be a Christian or anything else for that matter. Now, go put your guns away before you get hurt.

   Comment by LASunsett — 10/14/2005 @ 4:06 am

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10. For heaven’s sake. The whole idea behind Christianity is the freedom to chose because we are given free will. The idea of people saying a prayer or not-at a football game or a baseball game is based on that freedom.

    This isn’t “forcing anyone” to become a Christian–we don’t kidnap people and cut their heads off if they don’t convert–that’s Islam’s specialty. It’s interesting, though, that people turn around and blame Christianity for something like that rather than look at the real perpetrators of totalitarian-type ideals.

    The leftist authoritarian approach is to shut down anyone who has a religious view and that’s completely contrary to the freedoms that are “endowed by our Creator”.

    Some of us recognize that it’s not government that gives us our freedom–and that is written right there into the constitution.

    “We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

    Comment by Cao — 10/14/2005 @ 6:50 am

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11. Oh I have no problem with Freedom Of religion. And you can quote famous historians all you want.But you said:
    “From then on, students in public schools heard the evolutionist only viewpoint–man is just an animal–almost exclusively.”

    Do you really think we aren’t animals? Just because God worked in his own mysterious way to create our incredible intellects doesn’t mean that he didn’t start with animals.

    He started there, and through the absolutely amazing rules which he put in place to govern our universe (which science strives to understand) we have become much more than animals.

    I think the real problem so many religious zealots have with taking Evolution as truth is that they feel so uncomfortable about their “humble beginnings” as primates. I, on the other hand, am completely comfortable with that. Makes me appreciate God’s universe that much more.

    Comment by mojotek — 10/14/2005 @ 9:16 am

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12. Carol et al (for those who attended government schools that means and others) The ACLU deliberately and aggressively PROMOTES some religions over others. Need Proof? I offer this: When the ACLU threatened to sue to remove the cross/mission symbol from the LA County seal, they had no objection to leaving the female central figure on the seal. However, this figure is Pamona, the Roman GODDESS of the harvest. Now, perhaps they didn’t know that, although I have my doubts. Other posts that discuss this issue are here and here.

    Comment by GM Roper — 10/14/2005 @ 11:12 am

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13. Cao, you’re right — so many people, especially on the left in government — believe that GOVERNMENT grants rights. Unfortunately, I think that’s the majority opinion in government today, and it’s very, very wrong.

    And mojo, the biggest problem with that point of view is that if you accept that, then I can kill you any time I want without repercussion. After all, we’re just animals, right? Survival of the fittest, right? Well, if I can kill you, how in the world is that wrong?

    Comment by Ogre — 10/14/2005 @ 12:08 pm

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14. America is and always has been a secular nation — since declaring that the Episcopal Church was no longer the state religion of the colonies.

    Christians often refer to the “Godless Constitution” throughout our history and on seven occasions tried to eliminate the Preamble and replace it with a religious declaration making the us a religious nation. All seven attempts have been voted down by Congress.

    The people breaking the law, forcing one flavor of prayer or ordering silly stickers on textbooks are the ones to go after — not the ACLU.

    Why do you suddenly want to coddle criminals? These public servants have cost taxpayers a lot of money by your estimate by breaking the law.

    Comment by Denny Hix — 10/14/2005 @ 1:41 pm

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15. Denny, our government was set up to be devoid of established religion, But that doesn’t mean the founders rejected religion, far from it. They wore their faith proudly, in government-related activities (just as they alluded to it in our Declaration and Constitution). Lookee here for plenty of examples.

    The ACLU simply reinterprets the Establishment Clause, as do leftist elites, to suit their own anti-Christian ends. I nod to the excellent comments above (which you seem not to have read).

    Comment by The MaryHunter — 10/14/2005 @ 1:54 pm

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16. Denny’s purpose here is not to read or learn anything–his purpose here is to create anarchy by making a fool of himself, which he does quite nicely.

    Actually, he provides little entertainment anymore, his comments aren’t even worth responding to.

    He’s the resident troll since it seems Randy took a vacation.

    Comment by Cao — 10/14/2005 @ 2:04 pm

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17. Part of me wishes that Randy and Denny would take permanent vacations, LOL. However, they do provide a valuable service: they help to make our astute retorts to their smelly troll droppings look even better.

    Comment by The MaryHunter — 10/14/2005 @ 2:44 pm

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18. I did not read all of the links but I read a few of them before I realized that they weren’t the best examples of the evilness of the ACLU. For instance the kid who was defended for mocking the school administrator wrote a piece of satire at home on his own computer. For this he was expelled from school. Excuse me but what this kid does on his on time when away from school should not have resulted in his expulsion. The kid brought the suit. The ACLU merely handled his case-pro bono, meaning the kid did not have to pay but that the Board of Education did when the kid won his case. Another example cited was the removal of a cross from a verteran’s memorial. Except the lawsuit was brought by 5 private individuals and won in 1992. The ACLU did not get invovled until 1999, when they worked to get an appropriate remedy applied from a susbsequent lawsuit over closed bidding over the sale of the land surrounding the cross. In other words, they weren’t good examples! The cases they take on are not always, no make that generally, popular because they will defend constitutional issues wrapped up in unsavory circumstances. For instances while scrolling through one of the links I saw where they went after a city for banning sexual conversations on the phone. One you have to wonder how the city expected to enforce such a thing and two it is none of there business between consenting adults. It made no exceptions so the consenting adults could have been married to one another. As it just so happens the city did prosecute a 19 guy for talking dirty “phone sex” with his girlfriend. Doesn’t sound too bad so far right?
    Now, add in the fact that the girlfriend was 13. Now let the story read ACLU defends the right of adults to have phone sex with minors. Only that wasn’t the issue put before the court and the court stated when striking down the ordinance that it was unconstitutional because it set no limits and could ensare married adults.

    Wow, it really does work to hold the shift and press enter. Anyway, I was really turned off when I learned that the ACLU had represented NAMBLA (?). I don’t know what the specific issue in the case was although knowing the ACLU it was probably a constitutional issue that could be applied to any American and that we would not have appreciated having applied to us. What the ACLU fails to understand is that sometimes an action or a person or organization has set itself so beyond the pale that no one including the ACLU should step forward to aid them-not even if on that particular issue they are right. Wait until a better test case comes along. One that doesn’t involve a morally bankrupt organization or person.

    Comment by Carol — 10/14/2005 @ 5:29 pm

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19. “Wow, it really does work to hold the shift and press enter.”

    Carol, congratulations!!! You have learned well. Now repeat after me:

    NAMBLA SUCKS AND THE ACLU IS A SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATION!!!!

    As for denny, (and randy if he ever comes back), you guys are, unlike Carol, apparently lost causes, and I look forward to the day I can meet you, so that I may mock you heartily with my first amendment rights while a doctor attempts a cranialrectalotomy on you both.

    Comment by Kender — 10/15/2005 @ 1:56 pm

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20. “Denny’s purpose here is not to read or learn anything–his purpose here is to create anarchy by making a fool of himself, which he does quite nicely.

    Actually, he provides little entertainment anymore, his comments aren’t even worth responding to.

    He’s the resident troll since it seems Randy took a vacation.”

    When Cao is cornered, she resorts to namecalling and other whining.

    She can’t accept facts.

    She lives in a world where she’d impose her religious views on Americans.

    Too bad.

    The fact is, the public servants who pass these silly laws that get them sued do so to get re-elected — and let taxpayers foot the bills for their mistakes.

    If we would quit protecting them with our tax dollars, they would obey the law as the founders saw it — not devoid of religion, but devoid of using taxpayer dollars to enforce the political views of the plurality on the majority.

    Comment by Denny Hix — 10/17/2005 @ 2:11 pm

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21. ““Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”

    Forcing me to pray to a false religion at the start of a city council meeting would prohibit my right to practice my Christian religion.

    In my book, any fundamentalist religion is a false one. Fundamentalists worship written words instead of the Creator.

    My God is big enough he doesn’t need to be dragged into petty politics. And it’s wise not to draft him for partisan causes.

    Comment by Denny Hix — 10/17/2005 @ 2:16 pm

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22. “Respecting an establishment OF religion” Denny. Get that phrase in your head and understand that it does not mean “respecting a religious establishment”, which is how the ACLU and other leftists of many stripes interpret it.

    There is NO LAW that states the Ten Commandments must be posted or that cities MUST have a nativity scene.

    Comment by Kender — 10/17/2005 @ 9:20 pm

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23. But Kender, didn’t you know, because we have freedom of religion in this country, simply being within eye shot of anything associated with a religion you don’t practice is obviously FORCING you to convert, which is why I cannot wear my cross pendant when working for the city, or why government employees in britain cannot have PIGLET on their coffee mugs. It might “offend” the muslims and they would then no longer be muslims.

    Oh, wait, that’s NOT how it works? You mean the aclu and the dnc LIED to us? I didn’t know that was possible, I’m shaken to my core. (too much sarcasm?)

    Comment by Smoke Eater — 10/18/2005 @ 5:43 pm

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24. Nope…that was light on the sarcasm bud….

    Comment by Kender — 10/19/2005 @ 2:10 pm

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