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SBD
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 Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: Cross Challenged by ACLU |
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| Quote: | Cross Challenged by ACLU
The famed, feared and reviled legal organization enters the battle over the Mount Soledad Cross, filing a lawsuit on behalf of Jewish vets and local residents.
By DANIEL STRUMPF Voice Staff Writer
Friday, Aug. 25 2006 | The American Civil Liberties Union has officially stepped into the legal fight over the fate of the Mount Soledad Cross.
On Thursday, the ACLU announced that it had filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on behalf of a Jewish War Veterans -- a national nonprofit organization -- and three local residents who claim the cross' presence, as well as the recent transfer of the Mount Soledad Cross from the city to the federal government, are unconstitutional.
The suit contends that the transfer, which took place earlier this month after Congress and President Bush approved of seizing the property through eminent domain, violates a clause of the First Amendment that provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
"It's just as unconstitutional for the federal government as it is for the city government to sponsor, subsidize and endorse a 43-foot tall Latin cross on government property," said David Blair-Loy, legal director of the local ACLU. "The issue is not about religion, it's about government. It's really about protecting religious freedom, because whenever the government gets into the business of religion, that's the beginning of the end of religious freedom." |
Read the rest at Voice Of San Diego
Read ACLU Suit Here
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LewWaters
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When will SCOTUS wake and read the constitution and see there is no Separation of Church and State in it?
Anyone thinking the ACLU fights for our constitutional rights is a fool. They use the constitution, or a twisted version of their own, to destroy it and our liberties.
Since it was founded by a card carrying communist and staffed by known communist for many years, that alone should tell people something of their intentions.
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