Lets See The ACLU Remove These Crosses From Federal Property!
Posted on 01/18/2005 10:15:21 AM PST by alessandrofiaschi
WASHINGTON - The atheist who tried to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to bar the saying of a prayer at President Bush's inauguration. In an emergency filing, Michael Newdow argued that a prayer at Thursday's ceremony would violate the Constitution by forcing him to accept unwanted religious beliefs. His request has been rejected by two lower courts. Newdow also asked that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who is designated as the justice to hear emergency appeals for the D.C. Circuit, recuse himself because he is scheduled to swear in Bush and thus has a conflict of interest. Rehnquist previously has sworn in four presidents since becoming chief justice in 1986. "He has become a fixture in a governmental ceremony that has become infused with sectarian Christian religion and not once — as far as can be determined — has he made the slightest attempt to end that ... violation," Newdow wrote. If Rehnquist does remove himself, the case will go to the next senior justice, John Paul Stevens, who has the option to refer the appeal to the full court for consideration. Two lower courts have rejected Newdow's request to ban the prayer, suggesting he couldn't show actual injury in hearing it. In his ruling last week, U.S. District Judge John Bates also said the court did not have authority to stop the president from inviting clergy to give a religious prayer at the ceremony. Attorneys representing Bush and his inaugural committee have argued that prayers have been widely accepted at inaugurals for more than 200 years and that Bush's decision to have a minister recite the invocation was a personal choice the court had no power to prevent. Newdow gained widespread publicity two years ago after winning his pledge case before the San-Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) in San Francisco, which ruled that public schools violated the separation of church and state by having students mention God. The Supreme Court later threw out the ruling, saying Newdow could not lawfully sue because he did not have custody of his elementary school-age daughter, on whose behalf he sued. Newdow refiled the pledge suit in Sacramento federal court this month, naming eight other parents and children.
PING!
PING!
Uh.....didn't he already get slapped down?
please change "athiest" to "jerk"
What a jerk this guy is.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
The guy is a nutbag and a fine example of a Democrat.
If they try to remove them let the America vets take care of the problem of how to deal with the situation!
He sure seems to enjoy being smacked down.
Maybe he's practicing for Judgement Day.
Yes but I hear that he's praying the Supreme Court takes his case today. Apparantly, he believes in miracles!
Evolutionist-Atheist Asks Evolutionist-Court to Ban Inaugural Prayer?
If, by some odd chance, Nedow were able to win this, then Bush should start his speech with a prayer. Ha ha!!!
I am looking forward to GOD taking a GIANT DUMP on this libaweenie.
I hate this man. He gives decent atheists a bad name. Most of us don't get off on making other people miserable at every turn, but that's obviously what brews his coffee.
Look up "jerk" in the dictionary and there is a picture of Newdow.
Where does this idiot (Michael Newdow) live? In San Francisco?
Why is it that liberals define a conflict of interest as anytime someone appears to have an opinion different than theirs.
Renquist's swearing in Presidents in the past without commenting on the religous aspects of the ceremony does not show a conflict of interest. It does appear to show that he is not in agreement with Newdow.
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