ACLU seeks $65,000 for Jesus portrait case

Times-Picayune ^ | April 30, 2008 | Christine Harvey

[BBell]

Screw the ACLU.

[Ron Jeremy]

What they ought to do, since nobody actually knows what Jesus looks like, is just hang the picture without any inscription. When challenged by the ACLU, just say “that’s not Jesus”, that’s Cletus who lives out on farm road 56.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Tell them it’s a picture of a tortilla.

[DaveyB]

I say if the ACLU want to pay 65k for costs incurred due to their nuisance suit then let them.

[Red Badger]

When did Jesus sit for a portrait?...................

[MurryMom]

The ACLU has a record of winning so many similar cases in the past, you’ve got to wonder about the mentality of the city officials who respond, “On, screw you” when the ACLU demands they stop violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. How can a public official anywhere in the U.S. feel so immune to Constitutional principles that he or she feels safe in arrogantly refusing to abide by them?

[MurryMom]

When challenged by the ACLU, just say “that’s not Jesus”, that’s Cletus who lives out on farm road 56.

The city officials don't lie about what the picture shows because lying doesn't serve their emotional needs as well as saying "Oh, screw you" when confronted by the ACLU with their blatant violations of the U.S. Constitution.

[xuberalles]

[Always Right]

The ACLU has a record of winning so many similar cases in the past, you’ve got to wonder about the mentality of the city officials who respond, “On, screw you” when the ACLU demands they stop violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

The idea that hanging up a picture establishes a religion is a joke. The real problem here is the law that forces everyone to pay outrageous legal fees the ACLU conveniently runs up in these cases.

[Arguendo]

I wonder what the average IQ is in that town.

[chemicalman]

They can collect it from the athiest idiot that wanted the picture out in the first place. Otherwise, how they call it? Pro bono?

[longtermmemmory]

here is the problem.

WIN OR LOSE the ACLU has STATUTORY provisions giving attorney’s fees.

IOW the LAW has to be rewritten to deny the ACLU any lawyer fees. Lawyer fees are the oxygen of these nusance suits.

[al_c]

Hang a painting of Mohammed, Buhda, Ghandi, etc and it’s religious freedom. Hang a painting of the virgin Mary made of feces and it’s art. Hang painting of Jesus and it’s against the law. Pathetic.

[chemicalman]

Oh yeah...BTW...It’s probably the same idiot that lives on the Northshore of Lake Pont. that wanted to get rid of prayers in the schools/football games, and stop the prayers at the parish/city council meetings.

[massgopguy]

At the end of the Roman Empire segment in History of the World. Try the Mulve Wine.

[muawiyah]

This is actually the ACLU's own authorized Jesus picture.

The council should have said the picture was simply that of the great ACLU hero-pedophile, Mr. Charles Rust-Tierney, of Arlington.

[muawiyah]

Are you being cynical or ignorant?

Everybody knows that outside of the Shroud of Turin, there's no picture of Jesus ~ they're all fake! (you knew that, right?).

[353FMG]

ACLU = Anti Christian Lawyers Union

[SECURE AMERICA]

Let the aclu enjoy their ill gotten gains. Their actions will cost them so much more at a later time..........

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When challenged by the ACLU, just say “that’s not Jesus”, that’s Cletus who lives out on farm road 56.

Hahahahahaha. Thanks for the belly laugh!