Posted on 09/26/2006 4:18:43 PM PDT by Jay777
Well, we are half way there! Now the legislation needs to pass the Senate. This will be more difficult to do, so we continue to need all of the support we can get. The roll call is in from the House and its not good news for the ACLU! The bill, H.R. 2679, would deny legal fees and out-of-pocket expenses to be taken from taxpayers and given put into the pockets of groups like the ACLU when they successfully sue against references to God and religion in public settings, has passed by a vote of 244-173! This is good news, but it isn't the end of the battle. The legislation still needs to pass the Senate and for that to happen we will need all the support we can get. Keep contacting your Senators and let them know you support it!
Americans United for Seperation of Church and State are quite upset!
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, said the House leadership is obsessed with playing to powerful Religious Right lobbying groups that have been pressing for the legislation.
(Excerpt) Read more at stoptheaclu.com ...
I stuck one on the local branch's front door with a push pin this past year. It was the same one I sent to all my friends. I wonder what their reaction to it was.
I'm not sure that this is a good thing. I don't like legislation written specifically against a lawful organization, no matter how much we don't like that organization.
What's to stop a Dim Congress from writing laws explicitly punishing conservative groups?
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BTTT!
True, but how many conservative groups advocate rights to distribute child porn and let convicted child molesters have free reign without restrictions? They want to fight for the rights of John Evander Couey but not Jessica Lunsford. Jessica was an adorable, God-loving little girl and Couey is an oxygen thief, plain and simple, that buried that precious little girl alive.
These people are evil, plain and simple. I would not only like to see funding cut off, I would like to see this group totally disbanded.
Amen Halleluia! BUMP
Great news Jay. Would you add me to your ping list, please?
These people are evil, plain and simple. I would not only like to see funding cut off, I would like to see this group totally disbanded.
As soon as they break the law, then I would agree. But writing legislation specifically aimed at odious groups gives the Libs the ability to write legislation aimed at groups they find odious. And you know what those will be.
If the ACLU is violating the law, shut them down on that basis. But politically-minded legislation is a bad idea in principle because it gives the state too much power. Using the weight of our majority against opposing groups is not a conservative tactic, because it only feeds the Fed monster.
What is lawful about the aclu anymore?It was founded by a communist in the 20s.I dont think it has strayed to far from the inception.
It was founded by a communist in the 20s.I dont think it has strayed to far from the inception.
Being a commie is not against the law.
It's silly, and stupid, and doesn't show much of a thought process, but it is not itself against the law.
Again, we must remember that the weapons we use will also be used by the Dims. We won't control Congress forever.
"The bill, H.R. 2679, would deny legal fees and out-of-pocket expenses to be taken from taxpayers and given put into the pockets of groups like the ACLU when they successfully sue against references to God and religion in public settings..."
Wait a minute! The ACLU would remain free to continue their dastardly deeds; only you and I will no longer pay for it! What is wrong with that?
The ACLU would still be able to sue, they just would have to find another way to PAY for it.
Agreed! Let them pay for their own agitation against Christians.
you are right there is nothing in the constitution banning stupidity.But! there should be.The libs dont have a chance of taking control anymore like they used to.When we finally get rid of the 60s socialist, by old age,and get two more conservatives on the supreme court the libs will be done.
Good News. Maybe we have a glimmer of hope that this is the beginning of the end for the ACLU.
Read the act please!!
It prohibits taxpayer funding of the aclu's activities. The act does not proscribe the organization, it just shoves them away from the taxpayers' trough.
Why should any advocacy group, liberal, conservative, or commie (aclu) be funded by taxpayers because of rigged judicial shakedowns (winked at by stupid / complicit judges)?
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