Posted on 04/11/2006 6:41:45 AM PDT by Jay777
A federal judge has ordered an upstate New York school district to return bricks inscribed with Christian messages to a high school walkway, and a pro-family civil liberties attorney is praising the outcome as a victory against viewpoint discrimination.
The dispute arose after the Mexico Academy High School class of 1999 in Mexico, New York (Oswego County), sold bricks that could be inscribed with personal messages and included in a walkway as a fundraiser. However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) complained that certain bricks, particularly those inscribed with the messages gJesus Saves/John 3:16 and gJesus Christ, the only way,h constituted public school endorsement of Christianity.
The ACLU maintained that the bricks violated the so-called gseparation of church and state,h and the groupfs complaints prompted school officials to remove the contested bricks in 2000. Other bricks purchased by private individuals bore messages that referred to God or to local churches but were allowed to remain in place; only the bricks mentioning Jesus were taken out of the walkway.
Leave it to the ACLU to complain that upholding the first amendment actually violates it. How much more twisted can logic be and still be called logical. Seriously, according to ACLU logic the first amendment violates the first amendment!! The school encouraged people to express themselves individually, and because they did not act to censor Christian expressions, the ACLU concludes they have endorsed it. And then through legal threats the school caved in and censored them! Insanity!
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The ACLU has never been for civil liberties.
So it looks like the ACLU was championing the cause of violating these students' civil rights.
I once heard an ACLU spokesperson say on the radio that the government could show favoritism to any religion except Christianity, because Christianity is the majority religion. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. This stands the intent of the framers on its head; they believed that the government could and should show favoritism towards what they called "general Christianity," i.e., non-sectarian Christianity, which was understood as the moral foundation of society. Thus we have the practice of swearing on the Bible and myriad other practices which gave Christinity pride of place in society, while generally allowing freedom of religion for non-Christians. (I say "generally" because there were regrettable instances where this did not happen, as when Indian children were separated from their parents and forced into church-run schools.)
So True. It is not for free speech it is anti-Christianity.
I see the Anti-Christ Litigation Union is still working hard to advance their cause.
"The ACLU, working hard to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties of every athiest in the United States, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual preferences, or what the Constitution has to say!"
The ACLU was established in 1920. Its co-founder Roger Baldwin candidly stated, "I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. It all sums up into one single purpose -- the abolition of dog-eat-dog under which we live. I don't regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it."
Your free speech ends where the ACLU doesn't like what you say.
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Good News!
The Anti Christian Lawyers Union isn't used to losing in court. They usually have one of their card carrying judges making the rulings.
ACLU.
American Communist Liberals United (against God, family, America's sovereign Constitution, moral integrity, freedom of religion and free speech, the right for only non violent citizens to own guns, military and police holding criminals responsible for their crimes, etc. etc. etc.
ACLU
American Anti-Christ Legions (from the )Underworld secular humanist perverts united to destroy Christian American moral standards and replace them with no smoking, no thinking signs, no freedom, love is the answer IF you agree with their hate filled, hateful, arrogant, ignorant, unholy, unthankful, ungodly perverted lifestyles.
The seed of evildoer's will never be renowned.As it is written in the scriptures of Jesus Christ the Lord;
II Timothy 3:
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
And there are a LOT of them in NY.The same people who are crying, because sane people are leaving the state in droves.
"And there are a LOT of them in NY. The same people who are crying, because sane people are leaving the state in droves."
Sometimes I think that we need to make the left wing Blue Cities like NY City, Chicago, LA and San Francisco separate states. Then the rest of us can have a decent state government.
I say that is a great idea.Canada has lots of room,and their social policies would fit them to a tee.
I can't get any of the whining rats in N California to move to Canada. I have tried.
Thats too bad.N.California is some pretty country.But, no matter how pretty the countryside,it is still liberal wasteland!
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