Posted on 11/15/2005 6:44:48 AM PST by freema
Michael Newdow, who has already filed a suit to take "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance, is now suing to remove our national motto from our currency.
Newdow told the ACLU of Oklahoma that the national motto on U.S. currency is a violation of the separation of church and state. He is offended because he is an atheist. He wants to use the Federal courts to make his atheism the official religion of America.
Newdow filed in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which recently ruled that judges, not parents, have the final say in what will be taught school children concerning sex education. These same liberal judges supported Newdow and ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional. That suit was dismissed due to a technicality so Newdow sued again.
The 9th U.S. Circuit is expected to agree with Newdow. The case will then go to the U.S. Supreme Court for final action.
Help us secure one million signatures on the petition below to stop Newdow. Remember that only one person—Madelyn Murray O'Hare—was able to get prayer in schools banned. We must not allow one person—Newdow—to get our national motto removed from our currency by our silence.
During the last session of Congress, Representative Chip Pickering introduced a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to use and recite the motto and the Pledge of Allegiance. Your petition will encourage Rep. Pickering to re-introduce his constitutional amendment in the present session of Congress and send a message to the liberal judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit.
Please act quickly, and forward this to friends and family.
Click here to sign the petition now! http://www.afa.net/petitions/signpetition.asp?id=1460
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association
P.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends!
I hope I posted this correctly.
I really hate this guy.
This guy has nothing useful to do.
Castro needs sugar cane cutters.....send this assclown to Cuba at once!
Now we know why he has an EX-wife and his daughter thinks he's a nutcase........
I just hope Alito in on the court by the time it gets there.
i think the motto is e pluribus unum
The guy is a professional a$$hat and media whore.
Could he be "SaaaTaaaaaN"!!!!!
You know, if the whats said on the cash bothers him so, maybe he shouldn't use it.
;-)
Hmm... so what would happen if others would refuse to accept his ungodly money from him?
The way I understand it, there are actually 2 mottos. In God We Trust became the second motto, after E Pluribus Unum, in the 50s.
No, no, no, no, no. Not just no but HELL NO! This guy is a jerk, a trouble maker and maybe just maybe he should think about what he is doing or trying to do. This is an assinine proposal from an assinine human being!
Get a job dude and move on doing something constructive with your life for GOD'S sake. If the currency design is bothering you so much you better go see and talk with someone cause you've got a problem. A REAL problem.
I hear Cindy Sheehan is availible since her hubby disowned her for being a class A nutjob. Maybe these two can hook up.
Someone should file suit to take Newdow off whatever he's on.
I vote to take Newdow off the planet.
Why are atheists so offended whenever someone mentions something that they don't even believe in? Wait, don't tell me, I know the answer.
Anyway, if this puke is offended by our money then I have a simple soulution for him: give the money you have to me if it bothers you so much. This way he won't have to read those words that offend him so much. Problem solved.
I saw old interviews with her on TV years ago. I believe that loony b!tch ended up getting herself murdered. I can see some loon on our side doing the same to this Newdow idiot if he keeps pushing.
Nobody's FORCING him to use our currency. He can easily move to China and not have that problem...
This guy's entire schtick can be summed up in three words - "Look at me".
From what I have read, he was never married to the mother of his daughter. Are you referring to a different woman?
Just tell him that if he doesn't like the motto on the US currency, he should go to a country where they don't have it.
I'd contribute to send him to... How about Zimbabwe... Or Cuba.
Mark
NOOO! THEY MIGHT REPRODUCE!!!!!
"From what I have read, he was never married to the mother of his daughter. Are you referring to a different woman?"
Funny you should mention this - it does not sound like his parents had any children that lived!!!
"I crave attention. I need my 15 minutes of fame. Someone please notice me!"
---Michael Newdow
I hadn't heard that he was never married. He's a typical, dippy-hippy type in a new suit AND shoes I suppose.........
"E Pluribus Unum" means "out of one, many," according to Al Gore.
Because "treason" is such a black and white term and not nuanced enough to be taken seriously.....Sorry I was channelling Jean Effin Cherri there for a minute.
I'm sure his kindergarten reports must have read "doesn't play well with others".
Instead of counter suing; why don't we file suit against this idiot?
Newdow never married the mother of the child and the two are in a battle over his parental rights.
The mother, Sandra Banning, has said she has no problem with her daughter reciting the full pledge and argued that Newdow had no right to bring the case.
I doubt it's that he can't be elected. He probably can't get hired. So you pay a couple hundred dollars, file a lawsuit and then proceed to fundraise to support you and your lawsuit for the next couple of years. It's a scam but a legal one.
As to being offended by the mention of God, he ought to be patient and he will get his wish--because where's he's going someday, there really is no God. At least not where he can see Him.
You did great with the post. What I want to know is who's funding this guy? It's naive to think he's doing all this stuff on his own. ACLU, People for the 'American Way,' moveon.org, Soros are a few of the usual suspects that come to mind. Does anyone know?
If the sorry sob didn't want to give the girl his name he has no rights to her as a parent...........
Just remember, When Al Gore is at a big Dem fundraiser someplace, he really IS the smartest man in the room...........
Local talk radio host was wondering when this guy will be pushed down an escalator or elevator shaft. He's cruising for a bruising. Newdow has gay written all over him
> So you pay a couple hundred dollars, file a lawsuit and then proceed to fundraise to support you and your lawsuit for the next couple of years. It's a scam but a legal one.
I thought there was a penalty for filing frivolous lawsuits? This guy Newdow really is a pest.
Mike Newdow wants to remove God. He is really in trouble when God has decided He's had enough and decides to remove Mike Newdow. Consider the plight of MMO.
Frivolous lawsuits are rather narrowly construed and most courts will bend over backwards to avoid finding frivolous claims (unless an attorney really ticks them off somehow). This one would be considered in the "public interest". The lawsuit is not legally frivolous but it is frivolous in that no reasonable person would put their own money behind such a lawsuit unless there was some pot of gold backing it. Think of all the things that offend you. Would you be willing to pay thousands of dollars to go to court to stop them?
Newdow has the advantage of no legal fees and only out-of-pocket costs and he is up and running as a "cause" to support. That's the scam part. He can claim to be aggrieved, be the plaintiff and attorney and thereby put himself to work, paying himself from the money he raises, and, not incidentally, not having to share any money award he might claim and get. Now I haven't heard whether he will claim monetary damages but it doesn't matter. Plenty of money will be flowing from the groups who want to banish God from society.
Well, at the risk of being flamed....If we are not going to be a Christian nation and accept that Muslims, Hindus, and Wiccans, and every other religion has the right to tell Christians to stuff it, we cannot ethically put such Christian statements on our currency.
Frankly, I am all for people having faith in whatever religion they chose as no other person has the right to tell them any different, but we should declare ourselves a Christian nation and hold on to our traditions, morals, and values as Christians. Christianity is a key component in what made this country great and every other religion seems to want to tear that greatness away.
> Think of all the things that offend you. Would you be willing to pay thousands of dollars to go to court to stop them?
I'm a tough old bird, and not much offends me :) Bad taste isn't against the law...yet.
I read you on the scam. The scum!
But it seems that, having already lost the "under God" suit, Newdow is just wasting the court's time.
I wish we could send the 9th circus along with him.
If he hates money he should boycott it.
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