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What happens when Your rights are trampled on by some lefty manned government
entity?
Will you take your case to the courts or let it ride because of the cost?

You win! Should you not recover your costs?

Street preachers arrested on Strip(ACLU defending)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408572/posts

"What happens when Your rights are trampled on by some lefty manned government entity?"

Come on now. This is ALREADY HAPPENING.

Right now, over and over again, unethical lawyers and secular groups are taking away your civil rights. They are the ones running around suing those exercising their first amendment right to religious expression.

It's ridiculous to equate civil rights actually being trampled to being "offended."

The secular groups do it because they hate religion so much, they are "offended" at every expression. They are the fanatics pushing us toward a godless socialist society.

The lawyers do it because they've discovered they can sue or threaten to sue and get paid anyway.

The bill puts into perspective the difference between actual civil rights from being "offended" over any mention of anything religious. It plugs the loophole that allows unethical lawyers to exploit public funds provided by the taxpayers.

This bill isn't about taking away anyones' rights. Didn't you read any of the posts to you? Or are you one of those who will say anything irregardless of the facts to stop something you don't agree with? I suspect the latter.

In these kinds of cases, let each side assume its own costs regardless of outcome. State and local governments have relatively economical ways of defending these cases. The ACLU has no incentive to be economical when pursuing a case. Quite the opposite. The ACLU has powerful incentive to rack up outrageous claims for fees for the very purpose of chilling future defenses by other state and local governments.

Pass this law and you will the ACLU suddenly become frugal in its operations, at least with respect to these kinds of cases. At the same time you will see more popularly-elected state and local governments willing to stand up to the ACLU's bullying.

The net result: long-silenced citizens will reclaim their voices from ACLU free-expression prison and less of this nation's resources will be wasted on attorneys. That's a win all around.