The Cross on the County SealExcerpt:The ACLU and the pusillanimous liberal members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have obviously not read the First Amendment recently. The language of the First Amendment is pretty clear, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free expression thereof;..." It is clear that the First Amendment is only a restraint on the Congress of the United States preventing it from passing any laws establishing a national religion. It also restrains Congress from prohibiting the free expression of religion by citizens. Nowhere in the Constitution is there any other mention of religion - or "separation of church and state."
No reasonable person could possibly think that a small cross on a local county seal means that Congress has passed a law to establish a national religion. There is no legal justification, under the Constitution of the United States, or under any statute, ordinance or law for the removal of the cross. Nor could it possibly mean that the County of Los Angeles is establishing a 'County Religion'. To force the removal of the cross from the County Seal is the height of absurdity and the rewriting of the Constitution, as we have seen so often from liberal judges.
David Hernandez is now heading up a petition drive to put the removal of the cross before the voters of Los Angeles county on the June 6, 2006 ballot. To get a petition, or to sign a petition, or to volunteer your services, please go to http://www.savetheseal.net
The ACLU may have served a useful purpose at one time, and I suppose there are instances even now where the ACLU acts to protect individuals whose civil rights may have been abused. Nonetheless, the ACLU is the proponent of its own religion - humanistic secularism. No less fanatical then Wahhabi Muslims or Afghan Talibanis who have to destroy the icons of religions other than their own (e.g. the destruction of ancient Buddhist statues in Afghanistan), the ACLU is determined to do the same. Notwithstanding the fact that most Americans consider themselves religious and live a life consistent with Judeo-Christian values, the ACLU cannot tolerate any public displays of Christianity anywhere.
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