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A Victory!
ACLU bats .000 in TN school case
The ACLU has come up empty in another attempt to stop religious expression by students in a public school.
The American Civil Liberties Union asked the court to ban students in the Wilson County, Tennessee, schools from five faith-related activities — playing a song with a religious reference in honor of a three-year-old cancer victim; observing the “See You at the Pole” student prayer event; participating in the National Day of Prayer; and holding any Thanksgiving or Christmas observances that included religious references. The liberal legal group also wanted to ban a parents’ prayer group from meeting anywhere on campus.
Nate Kellum, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), represented two students’ families: the Walkers and the Golds. He says the ACLU came up 0-for-5 on its requests.
“This is a clear win for religious freedom and, if not a total loss for the ACLU, certainly a hollow, shallow victory. The court acknowledged that Christians — like the Walkers, like the Golds and their families — cannot be discriminated against for their beliefs, and that personal prayer, mentions of God, and Christmas references are constitutionally appropriate in the school,” Kellum contends.
The ADF attorney says the lawsuit should clear up any confusion about the ACLU’s goals with regard to any public expression of Christian belief. “The ACLU, with this lawsuit, hoped to wipe out every reference to God, but walked away with a ‘take nothing’ judgment. We are very pleased that the Walkers and the Golds were able to repel the ACLU’s unmerited attacks,” Kellum explains.
The order issued by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee states that all of the activities the ACLU contested at the school may continue.
The way to beat these weasels is to stand up against them! The more who do, the less their influence will be, the more victories will be won for the good guys!
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“The way to beat these weasels is to stand up against them! The more who do, the less their influence will be, the more victories will be won for the good guys!”
And the way those weasels will defeat us is by continually bringing frivolous law suits forward until we grow weary and quit. Mark my word; just as the continual rhetoric of the gay and lesbian special interest group finally made the once repulsive idea of homosexuality a ‘normal and acceptable way of life’, so will the ACLU with its continual attacks on Christianity end with a profound persecution of the Church.
We’ve already got the head’s up on that one.
where was the ACLU when they were forcing kids to learn all about the muslim religion in texas?
yup….another thinker………
@Gawfer:
Romans 8: 35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I think in the long run, we’re gonna win! Heh.
@christmasghost:
They were in the mosques, bowing to Mecca!
“I think in the long run, we’re gonna win! Heh.”
I think we already have…
@Gawfer:
I do believe yer right!