http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22902
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House sponsor hopeful about bill that would bar ACLU?s rewards in religion
lawsuits
Mar 24, 2006
By Tom Strode
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (BP)--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.
This year, the Republican representative has more hope than before thanks
to the American Legion. The country?s largest veterans organization, with
about three million members, has aggressively thrown its influence behind
Hostettler?s bill, and the persistent congressman is encouraged at his
proposal?s prospects.
Hostettler?s measure, the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA), H.R.
2679, is designed to close what he considers a loophole in federal law that
has allowed organizations such as the ACLU to collect attorneys? fees when
they win lawsuits challenging religious symbols on public land or religious
groups? use of government property.
The American Legion released a 40-page document Feb. 28 urging its members
to work for passage of Hostettler?s bill. The publication, "In the
Footsteps of the Founders," provides a blueprint for building local support
for the legislation in an effort to urge members of Congress to approve it.
The document has been sent to all of the nearly 15,000 American Legion
posts, and the organization?s national commander, Tom Bock, has urged
members in a written release to ?educate and
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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