The ACLU is Against Christianity, Not Prayer
Posted on October 19, 2005
Officials from Cobb County opened each meeting with prayer. Many times they mentioned Jesus in their prayers. The ACLU says that they have nothing against public prayer, but they do have something against Jesus. The ACLU has now filed a lawsuit saying it is unconstitutional for the officials to mention Jesus. Cobb Country Officials are now pleading with a judge to get the lawsuit dismissed.
MARIETTA, Ga. - Cobb County officials are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed in August by the Georgia Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union charging the county with making “overly Christian” prayers before meetings.
Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens and Cobb Planning Commission Chairman Bob Homan were both named as defendants in the ACLU’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta. Seven Cobb County residents were also plaintiffs in the suit.
The ACLU claims the prayers before commission meetings are too Christian. One prayer ended, “in the name of Jesus our savior,” and dozens more since 2003 mentioned Jesus, according to the lawsuit.
The ACLU is not challenging the commission’s right to pray before meetings.
In its response to the lawsuit, county officials denied that the prayers alienate certain citizens, said the prayers were not “an unconstitutional endorsement of religion” and did not “trivialize religion.”
Prayer continues at county meetings while the lawsuit is pending. SOURCE
This just continues to drive home the Anti-Christian agenda. The ACLU would be fine if this was an Islamic prayer, or a Scientologist speaking about his religion. However, if it mentions Jesus, it’s all of a sudden against the law. Make up your mind.
REAL Teen is a contributor for Stop the ACLU. He runs Right on the Right and also contributes to Conservative Spirit.
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Good post RealTeen. I don’t truly understand why the ACLU is opposed to God but they most surely are that and militantly so. They simply want an atheist state it seems.
To heck with those that are offended. No one is excluding them, they can go do what they want while those who wish to pray, pray in the fashion they feel like expressing. These people would exclude themselves. The prayer isn’t forced on anyone. So, they can go off and worship their own god, whatever it may be…if its money they worship, let them go count it, if its themselves, they can go to the bathroom mirror.
Cobb county meetings, I assume, are government meetings. By praying Christian prayers, or prayers that are identifiable as any particular religion, it is government endorsing a particular religion. This comes dangerously close the the establishment of a “state” religion. (”state” as in “government”.)
If the prayers were identifiably Muslim, Jewish, Wiccan, or ANY religion, the ACLU would have issues with it becuase these are government meetings.
Thats B.S. Moonbatty! There was a recent article I just posted on how they fought for a Wiccan to be able to do invocations at these kinds of meetings. I don’t care who you pray to, this isn’t anywhere close to “government establishment of relgion.” The government hasn’t established anything. These are individuals in voluntary prayer.
And I don’t care how “dangerously close” it is, it isn’t. Nothing that prohibits something being dangerously close to anything.
It is inappropriate in a public city sponsored forum for city officials–i.e. government–to advocate one religion over another. They City Council was free to open the meetings with a non-denominational prayer–why did they feel the need to force it to be a Christian prayer…they represent the entire city and that includes people of non-christian faiths and no faiths–this isn’t the ACLU being anti-Christian it is the City Council being discriminatory and advocating a state/city sponsored religion. We have laws against that and we should.
Prayer in the Public Square…
I was over reading at Stop the ACLU. I was suprised to find how often I agree with them.
I agree that it is stupid and wrong to obscure the homework of a Kindergarten student because it includes a picture of Jesus.(Story here)
I don’t however think…
[...] It is happening all across the nation. The ACLU sue city counsil after city counsil over praying in Jesus name. They don’t sue to stop all prayer, but in every case the target has been Christian prayer. They even fought for the right of a Wiccan to pray at a counsil meeting. Many times it doesn’t even take a lawsuit. They just type up a threatening letter and that does the trick. This was the case in Fredericksburg. But one man isn’t taking things lying down. Fredericksburg City Councilman Hashmel Turner has filed suit against his fellow council members, saying the council’s newly adopted prayer policy violates his constitutional rights. [...]
[...] It is happening all across the nation. The ACLU sue city council after city council over praying in Jesus name. They don’t sue to stop all prayer, but in every case the target has been Christian prayer. They even fought for the right of a Wiccan to pray at a council meeting. Many times it doesn’t even take a lawsuit. They just type up a threatening letter and that does the trick. This was the case in Fredericksburg. But one man isn’t taking things lying down. Fredericksburg City Councilman Hashmel Turner has filed suit against his fellow council members, saying the council’s newly adopted prayer policy violates his constitutional rights. [...]
[...] It is happening all across the nation. The ACLU sue city counsel after city counsel over praying in Jesus name. They don’t sue to stop all prayer, but in every case the target has been Christian prayer. They even fought for the right of a Wiccan to pray at a counsel meeting. Many times it doesn’t even take a lawsuit. They just type up a threatening letter and that does the trick. This was the case in Fredericksburg. But one man isn’t taking things lying down. Fredericksburg City Councilman Hashmel Turner has filed suit against his fellow council members, saying the council’s newly adopted prayer policy violates his constitutional rights. [...]
[...] It has become a tradition for the ACLU to attack Christian nativity scenes every Christmas. They has already started early this year. We have all witnessed the ACLU’s hatred of Ten Commandment displays across the nation. The ACLU sue city counsil after city counsil over praying in Jesus name. They don’t sue to stop all prayer, but in every case the target has been Christian prayer. They even fought for the right of a Wiccan to pray at a counsil meeting. Many times it doesn’t even take a lawsuit. They just type up a threatening letter and that does the trick. [...]
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