Bill to take profit out of anti-religion suits

World Net Daily ^ | May 7, 2005 | Unknown

[Jay777]

An Indiana congressman plans to curb the ACLU's appetite for filing suits targeting religion in the public square by introducing a bill that denies plaintiff attorneys the right to collect attorneys fees in such cases.

Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., is expected to file his measure next week to amend the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. Section 1988, to prohibit prevailing parties from being awarded attorneys fee in religious establishment cases, but not in other civil rights filings.

"Every other civil right case, there is some injury to somebody," American Legion attorney Rees Lloyd of Banning, California, told a Thursday rally in front of ACLU's Los Angeles offices. "Somebody lost their job ... somebody got beat up by authorities – they have some physical, mental, economic injury. But in an Establishment Clause case, it is someone who says, 'I take offense,' and the offense is based on religions, politics, philosophy, but there is no injury."

Hostettler introduced a bill with identical language in 2003 to permit only injunctive relief in cases filed under the religious-establishment clause of the Constitution and to deny attorneys fees. Although that bill failed in subcommittee, Lloyd is optimistic that the current offering will pass this session because of the more conservative makeup of the current Congress and escalating calls to curb an activist judiciary, particularly on religious matters.

"The issue is about the absolute fanaticism of the ACLU and the absolute arrogance of a judiciary that says we have to wipe out of history all the evidence of our heritage," Lloyd told the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a legal newspaper.

[purpleland]

You can join the fight against the ACLU and their ilk by becoming involved with and supporting the following organizations:
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 group just started on December 3, 2004 and are looking for new members to their yahoo group

My Personal Anti-ACLU Blog (Check it out and leave a comment!)

Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU Ping List!

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Good work, Jay!

ACLU has transgressed from trivial pursuits to hateful persecutions. Fight the ACLU at their level with class action suits. BTW, how come the GOVERNMENT funds the ACLU?
Are taypayers paying for the ACLU's legal action abominations based on the subversive political agenda?

I cannot understand why a few neurotic atheists can prevail in the courts against traditional Christian representations in public view and in public places! It is so SOVIET!

[purpleland]

JUDICIAL WATCH CALLS ON SUPREME COURT TO UPHOLD TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAYS
... COURT TO UPHOLD TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAYS Judicial Watch Filed Amicus Brief Opposing ACLU Effort to Remove Displays (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Tomorrow, March 2, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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... COURT TO UPHOLD TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAYS Judicial Watch Filed Amicus Brief Opposing ACLU Effort to Remove Displays (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Tomorrow, March 2, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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... COURT TO UPHOLD TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAYS - Judicial Watch Filed Amicus Brief Opposing ACLU Effort to Remove Displays (Mar 1, 2005) - Vermont Supreme Court To Hear Lawsuit Seeking Dean’s ...
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[Jay777]

Awesome!

[ViLaLuz]

This thread has a lot of info on stopping the ACLU from being awarded taxpayer funds:

Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005 (FREEPERS stop taxpayer funding of ACLU)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413875/posts

Our job now is to contact our representatives to support the PERA bill, and to spread awareness of this bill. At the very least the ACLU should not be funded by our tax dollars. Let's close up this loophole--it's a good start.

[Liz]

Our job now is to contact our representatives to support the PERA bill.....the ACLU should not be funded by our tax dollars. Let's close up this loophole--it's a good start.

More needs to be donw. The ACLU needs to learn payback is a **tch.

It's an outrage that US law, passed during the Watergate era, allows the ACLU to collect from taxpayers attorney's fees for makework----Christian-hatng lawsuits it itself launches.

That means "values voters" have been footing the bill for the ACLU's launching a juggernaut to remove Ten Commandments images, Christmas creches and Christmas carols, taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, and because they claim they have a civil right not to see the Ten Commandments, a civil right not to hear the word “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, not to see a creche of the Baby Jesus, not to hear Christmas carols. The ACLU has collected a huge amount of our tax dollars in this left-handed fundraiser for the ACLU.

FReepers can silence the ACLU with a bit of activism. We need to insist our Congressmen repeal this abusive law that allows the ACLU to get rich on harassing Christian America. Congress must repeal laws enabling the ACLU's Christian-hating activities. Cut off the ACLU's funds and watch them disappear. Here's what we can do.

Under the aegis of the ACLU's Foundation---worth some $135 million---any number of financial travesties can be hidden. The IRS should determine whether the ACLU is properly accounting for all its tax-funded activities, whether it is inflating legal costs, and whether it is using tax dollars for the purposes stated. We need to know whether the ACLU is engaged in Enron-style accounting and spending practices.

[ViLaLuz]

I'm with you 100%, liz.

[Fedora]

Good ideas. The National Lawyers Guild and Center for Constitutional Rights should also be looked into.

[Libloather]

We need to insist our Congressmen repeal this abusive law that allows the ACLU to get rich on harassing Christian America.

Just wait until church property can be seized for the collection of potential future tax revenue. I believe the Supremes gave that notion a shove forward with today's ruling...