Posted on 07/13/2005 12:11:34 PM PDT by Jay777
Restoring a tiny cross to Los Angeles County's official seal is the goal of a signature-gathering campaign announced Monday that aims to put the issue to a public vote.
Supporters -- including Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn and county Supervisor Mike Antonovich -- said they have already collected 20,551 signatures in recent weeks, and hope to gather 171,000 by Sept. 26 to qualify their initiative for the county's June 2006 ballot.
An attempt earlier this year to qualify a similar initiative for the countywide November 2005 ballot fell well short of its goal.
In fact, this is the third attempt to bring the issue to a public vote since the county Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 in 2004 to have the seal redesigned without the cross, noted David Hernandez, who has organized all three attempts.
The supervisors acted after the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California threatened to sue the county over the cross, which ACLU officials said constitutes an endorsement of Christianity and violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
Hahn and Antonovich said they believe the latest signature-gathering effort has a better chance of success than the previous drives.
Hahn, whose district includes the Harbor Area, said the "Save The Seal" campaign stands to gain from a recent Supreme Court decision allowing Austin, Texas, to keep a display of the Ten Commandments on government property.
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PING!
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 (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - 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
The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)
American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
Remember the words of State Sen. Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, regarding the peoples rejection of gay marriage:
"The people have spoken. They have spoken. But people aren't always right."
So take that, pissants.
I guess I better put a /sarc tag here.
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