ACLU finds pot of gold at the foot of the cross

ACLU finds reasons to exercise their 16th Amendment rights rather than their 1st.

Given the row regarding Councilman Turner’s mention of Christ in his prayer before Fredericksburg City Council meetings, it was mentioned to me that the ACLU financially benefits from cases such as these.

Financially benefits? Believe it or not, it’s true:

The financial lure created by this law is the engine that drives dozens of similar cases nationwide. Every state, county, city, public park or school that has a cross, a Ten Commandments monument, or recites the Pledge of Allegiance, has become a target for ACLU fundraising.

The most famous Ten Commandments monument case is the one in the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., installed by former Chief Justice Roy Moore and ordered removed by a Carter-appointed federal judge. As their reward for winning its removal, the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Southern Poverty Law Center collected $540,000 in attorney’s fees and expenses from Alabama taxpayers.

Kentucky taxpayers have handed over $121,500 to pay the ACLU for its action against the Ten Commandments display outside its state capitol. Taxpayers in one Tennessee county had to pay $50,000 to the ACLU for the same ‘offense.’

The ACLU profited enormously, collecting $790,000 in legal fees, plus $160,000 in court costs, as a result of its suit to deny the Boy Scouts of America the use of San Diego’s Balboa Park for a summer camp, a city facility the Scouts had used since 1915. The ACLU argued that the Boy Scouts must be designated a ‘religious organization’ because it refuses to accept homosexual scoutmasters, and because the Scouts use an oath ‘to do my duty to God and my country.’

Thanks to Betty for tipping me off on this article. Excellent, and something of which we should all be aware.