We all know about all the lawsuits filed by atheists and the ACLU against pretty much any public display of religion. It’s frustrating and silly but you know what…it works. It’s an effective strategy. They intimidate all these town councils into secularism for fear of paying lawyers for a lawsuit that could drag on for years.
I sometimes think we should be filing lawsuits too. Constantly. Willy nilly. Scare the spineless town and city government bodies into allowing public displays of religion.
Here’s a story about a guy who put a cross on his lawn. At first, he was told it was too big. So he made it smaller. And then he was told that it was too close to the curb and could distract drivers. So he moved it back and all seems well.
So he could have let is go…but guess what, he’s talking about suing anyway so that he could put the cross anywhere he darn well pleases on his lawn. The cash strapped town is wondering whether they should just accede to the man’s wishes instead of paying for a court case.
Maybe lawsuits are the way to go. It works for the secularists. Maybe we should be suing a heck of a lot more to scare all these town councils from bending to the ACLU’s will all the time.
Just an idea. I’m not even for doing it but I bet it would work.
HT The Blaze
July 29, 2011 at 6:03 am
The American atheist, an oxymoron, threatens to sue a Christian school for having a Nativity creche using the unalienable civil rights endowed by our Creator, while rejecting our Creator, and imposing his rejection of our Creator on all people using our tax dollars. Somebody, please tell the atheist to shut up and sit down or else he will be forced to put up or shut up. The atheist cannot prove that he still maintains U.S. citizenship after repudiating everybody else's unalienable, endowed rights and our founding principles. Make the atheist prove that his invalid lawsuit against a Christian has merit when he rejects our Creator WHO endows the unalienable civil rights that he claims as his own to violate all other persons' rights. The atheist suggests that civil rights emanate from himself or the court, the government. The government is constituted through the sovereign personhood of the individual citizen derived through the civil rights endowed by our Creator. The atheist needs to go quietly away before he is asked to leave.
Mary De Voe
July 29, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Rejecting and repudiating our founding principles inscribed in The Declaration of Independence, rejecting our Creator, rejecting our endowed unalienable rights, the American Atheists commit sedition and are not American, and are unprincipled. The efforts the atheists employ to establish the worship of Satan, and impose their tyranny against the American people who are citizens, as the atheist has forfeit his own citizenship, if aided and abetted by the courts of America is treason and perjury against the First Amendment of our U.S. Constitution.
Mary De Voe
July 29, 2011 at 9:34 pm
I have served on our city Planning and Zoning commission for many years, mostly as the chairman. The purpose of the right of way is not a distraction-free zone for safe driving but to facilitate legal use by the government for utilities, sidewalks, curbs and the like.
If the cross were in the right of way and the city needed to dig-up a pipe, they would be within their rights to take it down and not obligated to reconstruct it. Aside from this general easement, the property is still owned by the homeowner and he is free to put the corss there.
Of course, the city can pass a law infringing on his property and free speech rights but that is not to say it would hold in court. Courts being what they are, any outcome is possible. I am not a lawyer, so take all this with a grain of salt.
You ask a very good question Matthew! I am tired of seeing the good guys loose again and again at the mere threat of a lawsuit. That shouldn't be the rules of the game but if it is, we should play too. It is regrettable, but I don't think it is wrong.
If we play in this game on a bigger scale, we must be prepared to actually follow-through when necessary.