Posted on 10/07/2005 9:30:58 AM PDT by Jay777
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -- The Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Haskell County, demanding that a Ten Commandments monument be removed from the courthouse grounds in Stigler.
Haskell County commissioners had no immediate comment on the lawsuit.
It alleges the display violates constitutional protections against government endorsement of religion and entanglement of government with religion.
The ACLU brought the complaint on behalf of Jim Green, a retired veteran and a longtime resident of Haskell County. He objects to the monument because he believes the display violates the U-S Constitution and trivializes religion.
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The ACLU is anti-Christian and anti-American and should be regarded as an enemy to freedom.
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The word "entanglement" is in the Constitution? I gotta go re-read that penumbra!
And run by a militant homo.
What a life. Wake up everyday and look for lawsuits you can file, get paid for it from taxpayer money, shakedown whomever you can. These people are dispicable. Worse than j jackson and a sharpton, and most definitely, in my book, anti-american. There is a website and movement to rescind the ability of the aclu to use taxpayer money to file these actions. EVERYONE should sign it and support this movement. It is infuriating, while I am struggling to provide for my family, that my taxes go to this abomination.
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/ACLU/
"trivializes religion"
Huh?
Harriet, what is your opinion on this?
One has to ask:
Since the plain language of the Bill of Rights prevents the FEDERAL Government from using its power to prevent the "exercise" of religion, why is this a "Federal Case" at all?
I think Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Miers understand that.
Is there any other SCOTUS Justice who understands plain language?
What else is new? What conservatives have to do is make it well-known that the ACLU defends child molesters and the legalization of hard drugs. The ACLU can't survive if no one funds them.
Don't those ACLU freaks - and they are bona-fide, 100% freaks - have anything better to do with their lives than get 10 Commandments monuments removed from courthouses? They are absolutely obsessive about this.
The ACLU is a disgrace these days. they're nothing but a political hitjob machine... funded by tax payer's money
These idiots are almost in my backyard. Now, if I can just get em within 300 yards...
It seems to me, that whether the ACLU believe in a Creator or not, it would be in the best interest of civil liberties that things remain as they are. I see the phrase 'in God we trust' in the pledge as reaffirming the notion of our Rights being given by a Creator, and declaring the pledge unconstitutional a step in the direction of giving our Rights over to the Government.
I find it curious that the President of the ACLU, IIRC, is a Muslim woman...
I believe it is by a group that is backed by the ACLU.
"The ACLU is a disgrace these days. they're nothing but a political hitjob machine... funded by tax payer's money."
Until recently, ACLU's subversive activism was covert and subtle. Destructive Leftist "political hitjob machine" describes them. However, the problem is the judges who do not dismiss ACLU's insanely trivial court actions. Attack the judges, name the judges who do not dismiss these ridiculous court actions if you want to defeat the ACLU. Focus on the court and the judges.
Their business is suing all things Christian.
According to most in law and those Elitists I heard on Fox News the other night claiming that Miers was unfit for the SCOTUS because she had never been a judge and had not attended an "ivy league college", neither you nor I have the wherewhithall to understand the language in the Constitution.
later pingout.
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