ACLU: Pushing Their Agenda....

....in stupidity. Ok, so maybe that isn't fair, but if you watch the news, or listen to the radio, you frequently hear about the ACLU attacking Americans on religious issues citing the 1st Amendment as their weapon. Thanks to a liberal Supreme Court, they have been able to win many nonsense lawsuits the prohibit "freedom of religion". Swords Being Crossed Over Memorial to Katrina Victims

NEW ORLEANS — A proposed memorial to victims of Hurricane Katrina from St. Bernard's Parish that includes a cross bearing a depiction of Jesus has spurred a conflict between parish officials and the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU says incorporating a cross in the memorial is unconstitutional because local government officials were part of the committee that conceived the idea and because the group thinks the site where it will be erected is public land. But parish officials insist that the land where the memorial will be placed is private, though it is near a public waterway. And they argue that parish employees, who are members of the memorial committee, are volunteers who worked on the project on their own time, using private funding.

Here again, the ACLU is trying to prohibit public officials from being involved in a memorial to the victims of Katrina because there is a Cross involved, going on the assumption that it is public land involved, even though they've been informed otherwise. But there's a Cross to be erected, so it doesn't matter if it's public or private land, this left wing branch of the Communist Party insist it's unconstitutional.

"We're just trying to memorialize the people who passed away during Hurricane Katrina. This has nothing to do with religion. We're going to memorialize these people, whether the ACLU likes it or not," he said. (...) Joe Cook, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, said his group had initially learned of the memorial through news reports. He is waiting to receive information from the parish about the project and the involvement of parish employees.

I don't see that it's any of the ACLU's business if a Parish wants to honor those who were lost in one of the worst natural disasters we've known in this country.

"The cross, with a government endorsement, sends a message that only Christians are welcome in St. Bernard Parish," Cook said. "That is a very inappropriate message for a government to send."

What a crock! Perhaps it's a predominantly Christian parish. If it was a mostly Jewish area, would they have hissies if the people wanted to erect a Menorah, or Star of David? How about if it was a Muslim area, would they balk at the Moon & Crescent?

"Even if it's private land, at this point it's [about whether] the government is entangled with the memorial," Cook said. "If a private group had come up with this idea and funded it, we would protect their right to do that."

For some reason, I seriously doubt it. It shouldn't matter that there are people in local government wanting to be involved in the planning of the memorial, using their own time, off the "time clock". These are still citizens, living in the parish, and should not be penalized.

Rodriguez said at least half a dozen attorneys and corporations had pledged legal support for the parish in any prospective lawsuit with the ACLU, but he predicted it would not be needed. "What are they going to sue us over? It's private property," Rodriguez said. "We're not hurting anybody. That's the last thing on our mind."

If I had any money, I'd send them as much as I could to support them in their efforts to defeat the ACLU. H/T: Stop the ACLU