God is at work.
No wonder the ACLU is ticked off. But don't worry, they can't kill God - as much as they want to do so.
Posted on 07/26/2006 2:04:36 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The American Civil Liberties Union, that bastion of secular extremism, is fighting hard to bring down the Mt. Soledad Memorial Cross (part of the veterans memorial in San Diego, California built in 1954 as a memorial to veterans of the Korean War). As usual, the ACLU is not about to let the truth, America's religious history or constitutional intent get in its way as it backs atheist Philip Paulson, who brought a lawsuit in 1989 to force removal of an object that is anathema to Satan, Osama bin Laden and him (among others).
On July 19, 2006, the House of Representatives, the legislative body closest to the people, passed a bill (H.R. 5863) to transfer ownership of the veterans memorial to the federal government, 349 to 74.
Congressman Duncan Hunter, Republican of California representing the people of San Diego: "Today's vote is promising news in the effort to preserve the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial and brings us one step closer to permanently securing this historic landmark's place in San Diego County."
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel for the Thomas More Law Center: "The overwhelming support for this bill demonstrates that the ACLU and the liberal judges who support the ACLU's anti-Christian agenda are out of touch with America. No doubt, the ACLU will return to its liberal judges to try to undo, once again, the democratic process and the will of the people. However, an effective coalition of veterans groups, political leaders, and public interest organizations is developing to stop them."
President Bush issued a "Statement of Administration Policy" "strongly" supporting H.R. 5683 and stating in part: "In the face of legal action threatening the continued existence of the current Memorial, the people of San Diego have clearly expressed their desire to keep the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in its present form. Judicial activism should not stand in the way of the people, and the Administration commends Rep. Hunter for his efforts in introducing this bill."
Charles LiMandri, the west coast director of the Thomas More Law Center, emphasized the national significance of the case: "This case is one that should concern all Americans. It is a direct attack on our national heritage, and it is an attack that is occurring on our own soil. The ACLU and its minions, with the help of activist judges, seek to destroy what our Founding Fathers created-One Nation Under God."
Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, introduced a Senate bill identical to H. R. 5683. it should be passed swiftly.
ACLU lies must be exposed, so that they do not give Senators an excuse to stall.
Examples: In a letter to the House of Representatives opposing H.R. 5683, the ACLU misstated important facts and misrepresented the law.
ACLU lie: "service members are unable to choose their symbols when, as in Mt. Soledad, the government erects a 43-foot Latin cross upon public property."
Fact: the memorial cross was erected by a private organization; many family members, friends, and comrades of those buried there honored their dead by placing nearly 2,000 memorial plaques at the foot of the cross; and many of the plaques contain the Star of David, honoring fallen Jewish veterans.
ACLU lie: "Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice Scalia, and Justice White joined Justice Kennedy in noting that Latin crosses on government property violate the Constitution."
Fact: The ACLU's basis for that specious claim is dicta in a dissent written by Justice Kennedy in which he hypothetically claimed that the Establishment Clause would forbid "a city to permit the permanent erection of a large Latin cross on the roof of city hall." Unsurprisingly, the ACLU chose not to note that Justice Kennedy was dissenting from a decision in which liberal, activist justices held that it was unconstitutional for the government to display a Nativity scene at a county courthouse. In his dissent, Justice Kennedy stated that the ACLU-backed majority decision to remove the display "reflects an unjustified hostility toward religion, a hostility inconsistent with our history and our precedents." Significantly, it was Justice Kennedy who recently issued the stay to prevent the removal of the memorial cross until all of the legal appeals had been exhausted.
Robert Muise, a Thomas More Law Center trial attorney working on this case, ridiculed the ACLU's malignant misrepresentation: "Any first-year law student knows that dicta is not the law, particularly dicta from a dissenting opinion that does not directly address the legal issue at stake. The ACLU's misrepresentations may work on activist judges, but they are not fooling the American public or Congress. This case is plainly exposing the ACLU's anti-Christian agenda."
The good news is that earlier this year Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. replaced Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. That development appears to have resulted in the United States Supreme Court's recent intervention in the long legal battle over the constitutionality of having the Mt. Soledad Cross (a Latin cross) on city-owned land: Justice Kennedy issuing a stay of a federal judge's ruling ordering the City of San Diego to remove the Cross by August1 or face fines of $5,000 per day. Three years ago, the United States Supreme Court refused to consider the dispute.
Voters, take note of how your representative voted, demand that your Senators act immediately to save the Cross, and go to the polls and show those who want to bring down the Cross that, in America, "one nation, under God," God's people, not the secular extremists, are the boss and what is good for America is the ACLU's loss.
I ave said and stil say that evey alcu member should be hung from the nearest telephone pole or tree. The alcu was founded for the purpose of destroying the United States of America by using the laws of the United States against it. It has never deviated one 1,000,000 of an inch from that goal.
Either the United States as we know it or the alcu will be destroyed. There is no third option.
Each and every judge who ruled favorably on the complaint should not only be removed from the bench, he or she should also be subjected to an intense psychiatric examination, and if possible, restrained from mixing with the general public.
When you have a judiciary that reduces itself to grave robbing and desecration of the dead, it's probably better that we not have a judiciary.
I just wonder these ACLU moonbats think where they enjoy their freedom from, Michael Moore or George Soros!!! They want to take down what reminds us from veteran who has built and protected this d*mn country with their sacrifice... I need to stop before I'll be taken off the board for profanity!!! SIGH...
Boy howdy do I share your feelings. I sincerely hope that the Senate acts quickly to protect that memorial. If the aclu doesn't get slapped down the next thing they are going to go after is crosses in cemetaries!
ACLU=American Communist Liberation Unit.
You think they would at least have a decency to leave something as sacred as the veteran memorial alone... What else do they want to destroy this country? I'm sure EVERYONE know by now what ACLU really believe!!! These moonbats need to be exposed for what they are: MAGGOTS of society.
What a bunch of commie atheist bastards! dont hang them... shoot them.the founder of the aclu was a communist and it seems the group follows this pretty close.
FTACLU!!!
It woke my lazy tail up and I realized their goal was to use judges to rewrite the meaning of the Constitution to suit their selfish political goals. Coming from a Catholic school, I did not see the perversions they had infiltrated into the public schools. They now run the public schools.
They hate God and they want to use the schools and the judges to shape the culture to hate God instead of our history of honoring God.
The ACLU and their enablers simply ignore any law that conflicts with their elitist notions, and left wing judges are more than willing to fulfill their every command.
God is at work.
No wonder the ACLU is ticked off. But don't worry, they can't kill God - as much as they want to do so.
ACLU v. the Cross??? I'm PRETTY sure The CROSS will win!!
ACLU = Anti Christian Lawyers Union
so I better be quiet 'for I get in trouble again.
Any enemy of the ACLU is a friend of mine.
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