The ACLU -
ACLU - the organization that wants to completely secularize our nation
Working hard to Remove God from One Nation Under God


No one can explain better exactly how the ACLU is doing everything they can think of to remove God from society, than the ACLJ. (American Center For Law & Justice). The following information is from their e-mail list and/or their postal mailings. Right down to wishing to remove our right to pray in a moment of silence! They are going too far in a Nation whose very foundation was created under Christianity and respect of those of other faith.
God Bless America

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ACLU PUSHING TO SILENCE CHILDREN FROM DECLARING PATRIOTISM
Source:   The American Center for Law & Justice
The ACLU, Freedom From Religion Foundation and their allies don't really want you to know about this ...
... but they have sought to intimidate school boards into removing "God Bless America" signs across the country, in a vicious attempt to SILENCE our children and grandchildren from declaring their patriotism while America is at war!
They can be stopped - but I must ask you to sign our right away -
PATRIOTIC EXPRESSION OF RELIGIOUS FAITH PETITION
- and after signing, send this message to your friends so that others can join this NATIONWIDE petition campaign!
It's absurd that our national leaders can call for prayer ... that the song "God Bless America" can play in stores ... that the phrase "God Bless America" is showing up everywhere from T-shirts to highway billboards... but our children and grandchildren cannot even UTTER these three words at school!
Why?
- The ACLU has determined that "God Bless America" is "a hurtful, divisive message" ...
- They claim that schools who allow its display are "dividing its young students along religious lines" ...
- And other liberal groups have also gone after the Pledge of Allegiance because of its "one nation, under God" phrasing.
Both "God Bless America" and the Pledge of Allegiance are CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED free speech. The ACLU and other anti-faith, anti-freedom organizations have no sound legal argument to silence our students ...
... but for some reason, they keep trying to ELIMINATE religious speech - especially in schools!
That is why I need you to sign the American Center's "Patriotic Expression of Religious Faith Petition."
We will be sending a letter to each school superintendent in every state that outlines the legal issues on why such phrases as "God Bless America" and "One nation, under God" are constitutionally permissible. It will let each school superintendent know the number of specific people, and their names, who have signed on to the petition from their state. The petition sends a strong message of encouragement and admonishment to NOT give in the ACLU's threats. Our children and grandchildren need to know that they have the right to free speech - including religious speech - even when they're in school!

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ACLU DEMANDS CALIFORNIA SCHOOL TO DROP "GOD BLESS AMERICA DISPLAY
By Matt Pyeatt
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
October 15, 2001
GOPUSA
(CNSNews.com) - The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is battling to prevent a school in Rocklin, Calif. from displaying the phrase, 'God Bless America.' The group argues that any demonstration of patriotism in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks should be secularized. The American Center for Law and Justice, however, is pledging to defend "any school district or student organization in America that desires to display 'God Bless America' in schools," the public interest law firm stated. "At a time when America desires to exhibit patriotism, the ACLU sees fit to undermine the Constitution by attempting to exert a heavy hand of censorship," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the ACLJ, said. "The ACLU is out of step with the law and is reacting in a manner that is totally absurd and irresponsible. The message 'God Bless America' is constitutionally protected speech and the ACLU's legal analysis is both skewed and very troubling," Sekulow said. Stuart J. Roth, senior trial counsel for the ACLJ, said the First Amendment to the United States Constitution gives schools and students the right to use the phrase 'God Bless America.' "It is fully protected free speech. It invokes no Establishment Clause violation, as doesn't the phrase 'In God We Trust' on the currency and neither does the acknowledgement of God in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution," he said. "The fact that this is being made an issue by the ACLU is intellectually dishonest because our country has a long-standing history of invoking the name of God in founding documents and throughout our history," Roth said. Breen Elementary School in Rocklin, CA is the school the ACLU singled out for using 'God Bless America' on a marquee outside the school. The ACLU sent letters to Breen Elementary, demanding that the school remove the phrase, Roth said. "The school is going to stick to their guns and if the ACLU wants to file the lawsuit, I have told the school board attorney for the Rocklin school district that the [ACLJ] would gladly step in and defend the school district."

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As our nation tries to heal ... as we seek justice ... and as we continue to pray for our country's leaders, military, and grieving families...

I say "GOD BLESS AMERICA."
It's the simplest, most honest, most heartfelt phrase we've heard since September 11. And yet, astonishingly - the ACLU has objected to it and tried to censor its use. During this time of crisis, the ACLU has even had the audacity to threaten a lawsuit in one recent case. "God Bless America" went up on a sign outside Breen Elementary School in Rocklin, California ... and the ACLU contended it communicated "a hurtful, divisive message"! In a letter to the school, the ACLU said that "God Bless America" is a "violation" of the U.S. Constitution - and "must be replaced immediately"! An ACLU attorney called the phrase "a religious message" and said that the school is "dividing its young students along religious lines" ... "hurting" and "isolating" the school children! How can this beloved phrase - words that have resounded through our history as a cry of encouragement and freedom - in any way threaten our children? The ACLU says that displaying "God Bless America" "implies" that "only students who share the faith are truly patriotic." ACLU's attacks on the very spirit of our nation are absurd! THEY ARE ATTACKING YOUR FREE SPEECH! It's incredible - especially since "God Bless America" is actually CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED SPEECH. And yet, such attacks are actually happening all over our country....
- A Parent Teachers Association president in Illinois created and distributed a flyer inviting students to wear red, white and blue to school. The district demanded she cut off "God Bless America" from each flyer before children took them home!
- In Oklahoma, one community is in uproar because the school district had a sign removed from the front of a school. The supposedly offending message? "God Bless America"!
This kind of censorship must not be allowed to continue. So we are getting involved in these cases and others - setting the record straight. "God Bless America" is COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE under the law!
We are also working on dozens of religious liberties cases from the lower court to the Supreme Court, from coast to coast. And we've kept you informed on the strategic role we've been asked to play in Washington, in the fight against terrorism.
The ACLJ is an amazing organization fighting and working above and beyond the call of duty to defend our religious freedoms. Sadly, our religious freedoms are quite clear in the Constitution and we should not be in need of an organization of this nature, but liberals insist on persuing this evil agenda. Visit the ACLJ website: ACLJ Online

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Letter to Breen Elementary School in Rocklin, CA from the ACLU
The ACLU amazingly called the "God Bless America" signs "a hurtful, divisive message" that is in "violation" of the Constitution, and demanded the sign "be replaced immediately." You can read the ACLU letter to the Rocklin District by visiting this link:  Click Here
Please, read the TRUTH on the "Separation of Church and State"
Click Here

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PRO ABORTION COURT
In Hill v. Colorado, the First Amendment rights of pro-life protesters was silenced. The Supreme Court choose to relegate First Amendment speech to the same category as pornography. Pro-life citizens must now squarely face a shocking reality: the current United States Supreme Court is a pro-abortion institution that can be counted upon the actively promote abortion. Not only has the court upheld infanticide, it continues to silence those who wish to speak out against it!
Source: The Sekulow Report. Visit  The American Center for Law & Justice

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DEFEND STUDENTS
The ACLU have pledged to stifle student rights. Five members of the Supreme Court truly believe that a prayer by a student at a high school football game amounts to a constitutional crisis. Sadly, hostility toward religion has become the prevailing legal sentiment in our nation today. Credit the ACLU for this sad occurence.
Source: The Sekulow Report
Web Site: American Center for Law & Justice

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DEFEND PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF FAITH
The ACLU and others have unleashed an all-out assault on public displays of faith such as the Ten Commandments. We simply cannot allow the anti-faith activists to strip every last vestige of our religious heritage from our public life.
Source: The Sekulow Report
Web Site: American Center for Law & Justice

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ACLU Combats 'Missionary' Discounts
SALT LAKE CITY - The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is challenging a common practice in Utah wherein restaurant owners give discounts to Mormon missionaries. The ACLU has sent letters to the state attorney general's office and the state Restaurants Association advising that the practice of offering the missionary discounts at local eateries and retail businesses violates Utah's non-discrimination law. "Conferring a discount on the basis of religion is clearly illegal discrimination under the law", said ACLU staff attorney Janelle Eurick. "The practice ostracizes the religious minority in Utah and perpetuates feelings that non-Mormons are not as welcome in our communities or business establishments". Most non-Mormons in the state would probably have no problem with the discount, just as most Americans have no problem with discounts for senior citizens' discounts that "discriminate" against those under 55 years old. Orem resident Judy Bruyette contacted the ACLU after a priest and deacon of her church accompanied her to a restaurant, but were told that only Latter Day Saints missionaries and their families were offered discounts. "This is just like offering a 15-percent discount for whites in the South. Just because they are the majority does not mean that a business can discriminate against the minority community", said Ms. Bruyette.

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Columbine Ordered to Stop Anti-religious Censorship
A Small Victory
NewsMax.com Wires
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001
DENVER - The families of two students slain in the Columbine High School massacre two years ago are finally allowed to mount their hand-painted religious tiles in a memorial at the school. After the April 20, 1999, shooting in which 13 people died, the suburban Denver high school invited students, teachers, parents and others to paint the tiles to promote healing. The tiles were mounted in a memorial at the school.
"I didn't feel that I did anything that was not my constitutional right to paint," said Sue Petrone, Rohrbough's mother. She painted a tile with a heart, a cross and her son's name. The school's attorney said Daniel's anti-censorship ruling would probably be appealed.
Comment: Do not be surprised if the ACLU steps in to help...

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