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ACLU targets Christmas (AGAIN!!!!)
American Center for Law and Justice ^ | Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel

Posted on 11/28/2006 8:07:38 PM PST by SandRat

The ACLU is at it again.

With an outrageous boldness that only they could muster, the ACLU has set their sights on Christmas ...

In their never-ending quest to completely eradicate all things religious from public life, the ACLU's latest lawsuit is an all-out frontal attack on the freedom of speech.

Let me ask you - when did a children's Christmas program become illegal? When did the nativity story and Christmas songs become unconstitutional?

Because this is the dangerous charge the ACLU has leveled. A children's Christmas program has been deemed unconstitutional by the ACLU.

I have assembled a senior team of attorneys to work on this case, and I will be going to Tennessee to handle this matter with ACLJ Senior Counsel Larry Crain.

The ACLU is determined to censor Christmas ...

... but make no mistake: this is a case THAT I AM DETERMINED TO WIN.

In Case #3-06-0924, Doe v. Wilson County School System, the ACLU has sued the Wilson County School District, Lakeview Elementary School, the school principal, and two teachers for what they have deemed ''illegal acts.''

The ACLU claims that the plaintiffs ''have been harmed ... injured ... and suffered irreparable damage'' through the ''Christmas program with Christian themes and songs.'' The ACLU is asking that those actions be declared ''unconstitutional and illegal.''

It gets even worse. The ACLU alleges that several KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS role-played a nativity scene of the birth of Jesus - AND HAD THE AUDACITY TO SING ''AWAY IN THE MANGER'' AND ''JOY TO THE WORLD.''

This is the real issue at play: If the ACLU wins here, it will set a precedent across the nation.

Friends, make no mistake about it, the ACLU will not stop with this lawsuit. They will come to YOUR TOWN. They will target YOUR SCHOOL. They will march across this nation, loosening the threads of our religious heritage and chipping away at the foundation of our freedom.

So today, I am launching a nationwide campaign, ''KEEP HIM IN CHRISTMAS.'' The ACLJ will fight for freedom of speech this Christmas ... standing ready to protect YOUR children's and grandchildren's school systems, YOUR dedicated teachers and principals, and YOUR town from this type of blatant, religious censorship from the ACLU.

I will not back down. I will vigorously defend the rights of students to engage in free speech on public school campuses. Please stand with me now in prayer and giving.

Thank you!

Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: aclu; antitheists; attacks; christmas; commieassclowns; communist; frivolouslawsuit; godhaters; jesushaters; traitors; treason; waronchristmas; waronjesus
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American Center for Law and Justice P.O. Box 90555, Washington, D.C. 20090-0555 Phone: (800) 296-4529
1 posted on 11/28/2006 8:07:41 PM PST by SandRat
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To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...

The ACLU. The GRINCH continuing to try and steal Christmas.


2 posted on 11/28/2006 8:08:32 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
We need to pursue an amendment, to reaffirm the first, which allows for the free expression of religion. We also need to stop funding the aclu, and establish a law the courts should not hear these petty cases. Otherwise we will be looking at a muslim nation, and don't doubt it! Schools are teaching muslim prayers, and we now have a congresscritter who wants to take his oath on the koran!
3 posted on 11/28/2006 8:13:31 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: gidget7

All we have to do is FINE them when they lose. Fine them big bucks for frivolous lawsuits. Make them HURT.


4 posted on 11/28/2006 8:28:15 PM PST by irishtenor (Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
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To: wagglebee; Jay777

ping


5 posted on 11/28/2006 8:29:58 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SandRat
It gets even worse. The ACLU alleges that several KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS role-played a nativity scene of the birth of Jesus - AND HAD THE AUDACITY TO SING ''AWAY IN THE MANGER'' AND ''JOY TO THE WORLD.''

But if were islam during ramadam, ....

6 posted on 11/28/2006 8:31:26 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SandRat
The ACLU. The GRINCH continuing to try and steal Christmas.

Santa Claus's birthday?

7 posted on 11/28/2006 8:33:34 PM PST by oldbrowser (This war isn't over until it's OVER.)
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To: SandRat
Send them a message on the ACLU FEEDBACK Page
8 posted on 11/28/2006 8:39:21 PM PST by MrCFdovnh
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To: SandRat

Letters I like letters..........ACLU..STFU. My sort of Holiday spirit!


9 posted on 11/28/2006 8:46:32 PM PST by badpacifist (I want you, I need you. But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you. So don't be sad.)
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To: SandRat
FWIW,

I bought the most religious Christmas cards I could find.

I made up some bright yellow stickers that say, "In God We Trust."

I made up some bright pink stickers that say, "Donation Enclosed."

I bought the Christmas stamp that has the Virgin Mary on it.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays I affix the stickers and stamp to one of these cards and mail it to the ACLU's New York City office.

I enclose with the card a $.01 check.

I started doing this on 10/31/06 and will mail the last card 12/19.

Thus far, none of the $.01 checks have cleared the bank :)

10 posted on 11/28/2006 8:46:39 PM PST by upchuck (Republicans didn`t lose this time around because they were conservative, but because they WEREN`T!)
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To: SandRat
If the ACLU claims that someone might, maybe, possibly be offended by Christian activity, that it taken as just as serious as getting a killer off death row. 

If a Christian IS offended by actions hostile to Christian traditions, then that is dismissed by a scoff and a hand wave by the same ACLU.

I noticed that the ACLU isn't offended that some students learn the 5 pillars of Islam in the name of "Cultural Diversity Education" at the tax payer's expense. 

 Now that it is PC.

 

11 posted on 11/28/2006 8:47:47 PM PST by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: SandRat

We need an angel to sue the ACLU into bankruptcy.


12 posted on 11/28/2006 8:49:50 PM PST by x_plus_one (Franklin Graham: "Allah is not the God of Moses. Allah had no son")
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To: upchuck
Thus far, none of the $.01 checks have cleared the bank :)

That's the spirit! Not a bad way to get in your .02! ;-)

13 posted on 11/28/2006 8:50:21 PM PST by MrCFdovnh
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To: upchuck

Everybody should send them religious Christmas cards. I think mine will be in a plain envelope.

What is their NY address?


14 posted on 11/28/2006 8:54:51 PM PST by Kryptonite (Keep Democrats Out of Power!)
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To: MrCFdovnh

Nothing like anticlerical bigotry. The ACLU is the Left's equivalent of the KKK. Instead of blacks, they target Christians.


15 posted on 11/28/2006 8:55:55 PM PST by Joseph DeMaistre (There's no such thing as relativism, only dogmatism of a different color)
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To: upchuck

I like your style.


16 posted on 11/28/2006 9:08:25 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Thank you!


18 posted on 11/28/2006 9:09:54 PM PST by upchuck (Republicans didn`t lose this time around because they were conservative, but because they WEREN`T!)
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To: upchuck

Thanks. If Christians everywhere send them cards, it will send a strong message. Maybe I'll add a personal note of receiving the Holy Spirit too.


19 posted on 11/28/2006 9:16:00 PM PST by Kryptonite (Keep Democrats Out of Power!)
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To: upchuck

Are there also state offices? Maybe we should also target our state ACLU offices as well.


20 posted on 11/28/2006 9:16:00 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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Hasnt someone said that RICO could be invoked against the ACLU ???

Its still a Civil Rights issue though...


21 posted on 11/28/2006 9:30:50 PM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: LiteKeeper
Are there also state offices?

Yep, check here:
http://aclu.org/affiliates/index.html

22 posted on 11/28/2006 9:34:21 PM PST by upchuck (Republicans didn`t lose this time around because they were conservative, but because they WEREN`T!)
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To: SandRat
In their never-ending quest to completely eradicate all things religious from public life, the ACLU's...

Jay, if I may, I would change "all things religious" to "all things Jewish and/or Christian". They don't fear anything else. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, now why do you suppose that is?

23 posted on 11/28/2006 9:34:50 PM PST by Frwy (Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
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To: upchuck

We can't edit posts. The system does not allow it.


25 posted on 11/28/2006 9:38:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: cubstoworldseries07

If they are offended, look away. So much stuff offends me and nobody gives a rip. Yes, I can change the channel, not go to the movies, not eat exotic foods, not listen to Nancy Pelosi screetch, and on and on and on.....it works.


26 posted on 11/28/2006 9:39:35 PM PST by Frwy (Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
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To: SandRat

I was surprised to see Charlie Brown's Christmas special on ABC this evening. And Christ wasn't even bleeped out!


27 posted on 11/28/2006 9:43:11 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President**)
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To: Admin Moderator
We can't edit posts. The system does not allow it.

Didn't know that. Thanks for pulling the reply with the wrong address.

Corrected address:

American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004

28 posted on 11/28/2006 9:53:23 PM PST by upchuck (Republicans didn`t lose this time around because they were conservative, but because they WEREN`T!)
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To: MrCFdovnh

BUMP


29 posted on 11/28/2006 10:08:22 PM PST by SweetCaroline (***Your own healing is the Greatest Message of Hope to others!***)
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To: MrCFdovnh
Send them a message on the ACLU FEEDBACK Page

Thanks for the link. Sent them a merry christmas note from Chuck U. Farley...

30 posted on 11/28/2006 10:09:29 PM PST by Domandred
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To: MrCFdovnh

I sent them a message.....not that they'll care. i did manage to stay calm ....
Asked them what are they gonna do when the vacuum of beliefs they create here in the US is filled by Shira law...
I recently read about the Jew who was raised by hippies...no beliefs..everything is ok...who gravitated to Islam and then eventually left it. He now helps the government to understand radical Islam. He blamed being brought up without defined beliefs and said that he shared that with the other two well known Americans who ended up Islamic. Now he is a Christian - thanks to his wife.


31 posted on 11/28/2006 10:51:18 PM PST by Aria (Terri: Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for theeii)
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To: potlatch; getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL


32 posted on 11/28/2006 10:53:57 PM PST by devolve ( .................always shop, invest, & hire wisely)
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To: devolve

Very nice! Looks like Christ in Christmas is going to be a constant battle from now on.


33 posted on 11/28/2006 10:59:13 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: SandRat
The ACLU is determined to censor Christmas ...

It's bigger than just Christmas, I'm afraid.

The ACLU appears to be out to steal our entire culture.

Christmas, religion, Boy Scouts, Family, our defense against terrorists, our social fabric.

Our arguments really need to go beyond defending Christmas...we must consistently and continually question the ACLU's uber alles motives.

When we present the ACLU's America-hating activities as a collection of many different culture thefts, then folks might add things up and be genuinely afraid.

Bill O calls the ACLU the most dangerous organization in our country, and on this, I agree with him.

34 posted on 11/28/2006 11:00:40 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: irishtenor
All we have to do is FINE them when they lose. Fine them big bucks for frivolous lawsuits. Make them HURT.

They get taxpayer money to do this sort of stuff. the more they do, the more cash they get. Sick, huh?

35 posted on 11/28/2006 11:03:52 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ( <h2>SAY NO TO RUDY! I know how to spell, I just type like s#it.)
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To: SandRat

What can we do to help?

Also, have yall considered going after the ACLU under the RICO statutes?


36 posted on 11/28/2006 11:06:58 PM PST by BamaGirl (The Framers Rule!)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

We all pay them to destroy our country? How does this work?


37 posted on 11/28/2006 11:09:15 PM PST by Aria (Terri: Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for theeii)
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To: Aria

try googling 'aclu taxpayer funding' for more info.


38 posted on 11/28/2006 11:13:37 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ( <h2>SAY NO TO RUDY! I know how to spell, I just type like s#it.)
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To: SandRat

There is a bill right now in Congress ready to be passed that will take away all monies from the ACLU. But no matter what they, (the ACLU and others) do, they can not stop the will of GOD. They may stop it on public property and a few businesses but they won't stop it. Before America was even a word Christians and Jews have been put to death for their beliefs and yet we are still here and we will still be here long after their ideology is long gone.


39 posted on 11/28/2006 11:40:25 PM PST by AIC
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To: SandRat
In their never-ending quest to completely eradicate all things religious from public life

Not true.

I see no attacks by the ACLU on Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism or any other religion - Except Christianity.

40 posted on 11/29/2006 12:02:19 AM PST by Wil H
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To: irishtenor
All we have to do is FINE them when they lose. Fine them big bucks for frivolous lawsuits. Make them HURT.

I hate to tell you this, but WE actually pay all their costs, win or lose....

41 posted on 11/29/2006 12:03:50 AM PST by Wil H
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To: SandRat

The send a message crowd gave ACLU the mandate.


42 posted on 11/29/2006 12:12:18 AM PST by Schnucki ("When a mullah calls, an undertaker is sure to follow." -- old Persian saying)
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To: upchuck
I enclose with the card a $.01 check.

You should also enclose a letter demanding a receipt.

Personally I think we should all send a Money Order for 1 cent by certified mail and demand they return it or receipt it.

If you hear nothing back you write to them saying "I sent you a money order number xxxx on mm/dd/yy please advise that you have cashed this and provide me with a receipt.

Net loss to them on every "donation"

Get enough people to do this we could run them into the ground.

43 posted on 11/29/2006 12:14:06 AM PST by Wil H
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To: upchuck

THANK YOU!!!

I'm sending the ACLU Christmas cards!!

Damn grinches...


44 posted on 11/29/2006 4:49:49 AM PST by gabidale89
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To: badpacifist

Flood the ACLU with Mail, and make sure your envelopes vary, if each FReeper spent 5$ worth of stamps on sending letters this Christmas season, along with many of our other like-minded friends we could flood the ACLU with mail. Freezing them.


45 posted on 11/29/2006 6:39:53 AM PST by HHKrepublican_2
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Against
Christian
Love and
Unity

Assclown
Communist
Lawyers
Union

47 posted on 11/29/2006 7:17:51 AM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (I'm boycotting Best Buy, so yay for me.)
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To: upchuck
How very enterprising of you!

Well done.

48 posted on 11/29/2006 7:58:17 AM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: SandRat

The ACLU is an enemy of the USA. Michael Savage writes and speaks about these people at length and he is right about them.


49 posted on 11/29/2006 7:59:24 AM PST by PeterFinn (B’fhearr Gaeilge briste na Béarla cliste.)
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To: Churchillspirit

Thank you.


50 posted on 11/29/2006 1:26:36 PM PST by upchuck (Republicans didn`t lose this time around because they were conservative, but because they WEREN`T!)
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