Posted on 05/05/2008 1:37:45 PM PDT by BBell
Edited on 05/05/2008 1:41:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana has asked a federal judge to award the organization more than $65,000 in attorneys fees and court costs, stemming from a ruling earlier this month that said Slidell officials broke the law by hanging a portrait of Jesus on the wall at Slidell City Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nola.com ...
What they ought to do, since nobody actually knows what Jesus looks like, is just hang the picture without any inscription. When challenged by the ACLU, just say “that’s not Jesus”, that’s Cletus who lives out on farm road 56.
Tell them it’s a picture of a tortilla.
I say if the ACLU want to pay 65k for costs incurred due to their nuisance suit then let them.
When did Jesus sit for a portrait?...................
The ACLU has a record of winning so many similar cases in the past, you’ve got to wonder about the mentality of the city officials who respond, “On, screw you” when the ACLU demands they stop violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. How can a public official anywhere in the U.S. feel so immune to Constitutional principles that he or she feels safe in arrogantly refusing to abide by them?
The city officials don't lie about what the picture shows because lying doesn't serve their emotional needs as well as saying "Oh, screw you" when confronted by the ACLU with their blatant violations of the U.S. Constitution.
The idea that hanging up a picture establishes a religion is a joke. The real problem here is the law that forces everyone to pay outrageous legal fees the ACLU conveniently runs up in these cases.
I wonder what the average IQ is in that town.
They can collect it from the athiest idiot that wanted the picture out in the first place. Otherwise, how they call it? Pro bono?
here is the problem.
WIN OR LOSE the ACLU has STATUTORY provisions giving attorney’s fees.
IOW the LAW has to be rewritten to deny the ACLU any lawyer fees. Lawyer fees are the oxygen of these nusance suits.
Hang a painting of Mohammed, Buhda, Ghandi, etc and it’s religious freedom. Hang a painting of the virgin Mary made of feces and it’s art. Hang painting of Jesus and it’s against the law. Pathetic.
Oh yeah...BTW...It’s probably the same idiot that lives on the Northshore of Lake Pont. that wanted to get rid of prayers in the schools/football games, and stop the prayers at the parish/city council meetings.
At the end of the Roman Empire segment in History of the World. Try the Mulve Wine.
The council should have said the picture was simply that of the great ACLU hero-pedophile, Mr. Charles Rust-Tierney, of Arlington.
Everybody knows that outside of the Shroud of Turin, there's no picture of Jesus ~ they're all fake! (you knew that, right?).
ACLU = Anti Christian Lawyers Union
Let the aclu enjoy their ill gotten gains. Their actions will cost them so much more at a later time..........
Hahahahahaha. Thanks for the belly laugh!
Without the book it could be Cletus
Can’t be Jesus. They didn’t have books 2000 years ago.
"Confucius, Hammurabi and more than a dozen other historical figures have joined Jesus Christ on the wall at Slidell City Court in a move that officials believe will reassure visitors that it has always been the court's intent to showcase the people who helped to create the laws of civilized nations."
You can read the rest here.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/jesus_gets_company_on_slidell.html
“Lawyer fees are the oxygen of these nusance suits.”
Yep. And the same thing applies to all these damned enviro-nazi law suits also.
It’s not Jesus, it’s Cletus from farm road 56.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_lawyers_party.html
The city officials were not establishing a religion. Regardless, the court has no constitutional authority in this matter at all. None. The only government branch the first amendment prohibits from establishing a religion is congress. Further, the congress is not allowed to prohibit the free exercise of religion anywhere. Per the Constitution, the SCOTUS is not allowed to make law at all, much less prohibit the free exercise of religion. The ACLU has no right to sue any state or locality over this issue. NONE! I suggest you read the constitution before tung lashing decent people in support of the monstrous ACLU and dictatorial Supreme Court. BTW I say SCREW YOU to the SCOTUS. And I guarantee you I am not alone.
Yep... That’s Cletus and his Farmer’s Almanac.
This post (<-click), while addressing the USSC's scandalous decision to legalize abortion, provides more details as to how corrupt justices began using FDR's "license" to ignore 10th A. protected state powers to eventually stifle free religious speech. This case concerning the portrait of Judge Jesus on a courthouse wall is just another example of a judge ignorantly applying FDR's bogus license to ignore 10th A. protected state powers to address religious issues.
The bottom line is that the people need to reconnect with the Founder's intentions for the division of federal and government state powers as reflected by the 10th Amendment. The people then need to get in the faces of the feds, demanding that the feds start respecting the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, particularly where the wrongly ignored 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues is concerned, power now limited by the honest interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
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