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American Legion pushes for anti-ACLU legislation..

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Stop The ACLU
Indiana’s John Hostettler is trying for the fifth consecutive Congress to
prevent the American Civil Liberties Union from receiving government funds
when it succeeds at legal challenges to public expressions of religion.

The ACLU and other organizations have gained attorneys’ fees in numerous
cases in which they have won legal challenges to religious expression and
symbols. These include:

– The ACLU was awarded nearly $800,000 in attorneys’ fees from the city of
San Diego, Calif., in its successful effort to prevent the Boy Scouts of
America, which acknowledges God in its oath, from continuing to use Balboa
Park, according to the pro-family organization Eagle Forum.

– The ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the
Southern Poverty Law Center gained about $540,000 from the state of Alabama
in a successful challenge of the Ten Commandments monument displayed in the
State Judicial Building by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, according to
Eagle Forum.

– The ACLU received about $63,000 in a successful attempt to remove a cross
from the Mojave Desert World War I Memorial in California, according to the
American Legion.

That case prompted a unanimously approved resolution by the American Legion
in 2004 urging Congress to pass legislation to bar attorneys’ fees in
successful suits calling for the removal or destruction of such symbols. It
also pointed to a special concern of the American Legion — the consequences
for crosses, Stars of David and other religious symbols on veterans’ graves.

Bock called the removal of the Mojave cross a “very dangerous precedent.
There are 22 national cemeteries with veterans at rest beneath religious
symbols. There is nothing in the law to prevent groups like the ACLU from
filing establishment-clause lawsuits against those sacred grounds and then
receiving taxpayer-paid attorney fees.

PERA “will restore legal balance in this country, and it will protect us
from being the victims of this assault on our religious liberties,”
Hostettler said in a Feb. 28 speech at the American Legion’s national
conference in Washington, according to his written text.

HT, with thanks to Jay at StoptheACLU

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