The attack on Christmas is at full swing this season .
WorldNetDaily.com reports that the Jackson County School District in Jefferson, Georgia is banned any mention of the word Christmas, several Christmas carols because of their ‘religious’ content and any decoration that relates to the biblical representation of what Christmas.
This year, the ADF in their Christmas Project,
Surveys show that 95% of Americans celebrate Christmas. Yet, due to political correctness, disinformation, and even the threat of lawsuits from the ACLU and its allies, religious expression at Christmastime is increasingly absent from the public square. Slowly, this holy day is being turned into a secular “solstice season.”
Most school district in this country fear the ACLU and do not realize there is no law against free expression during the Christmas season. The ACLU has used the tactic if it offends, then it must be banned. Many precedents have been established at the ADF web site on Christmas.
Posted by Walt in Christmas categories at 7:32 AM EST
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Federal appeals court fully rejects ACLU lawsuit against holiday displays on Cranston, R.I., City Hall lawn
Thursday, July 07, 2005
BOSTON-A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruled unanimously Wednesday that a woman represented by the ACLU who sued the City of Cranston, R.I., after being offended by Christmas displays at City Hall had no standing to bring her claim.
"This is the court’s message: you can’t sue just because you’re an offended observer," said ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull. "The appeals court today rejected what has been a longstanding ACLU tactic-filing lawsuits simply for the reason that somebody claims to be offended. The Christmas displays in Cranston were perfectly constitutional, just as the district court ruled."
On Nov. 15 of last year, a federal district court ruled that the City of Cranston’s practice of allowing private holiday displays, including religious displays, on the front lawn of City Hall does not violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
The district court did grant an injunction against the city on other grounds at that time, but the appeals court today threw out the injunction saying that the client represented by the ACLU had no standing to sue.
In Wednesday’s opinion, the three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals wrote, "The Constitution requires that litigants have a personal stake in a case before they may sue in a federal court., and this plaintiff has not provided facts sufficient to show that she possesses such a stake." The full text of the opinion can be read at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/OsediaczOpinion.pdf.
ADF-allied attorney Tom Marcelle, based in Albany, N.Y., represented the city in the case, Osediacz v. City of Cranston, which the ACLU originally filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
U.S. District Court Judge William Smith wrote last year that nothing in the city’s public statements or in its implementation of the policy for its Christmas displays "reveals or even remotely supports an inference that a religious purpose was behind the creation of the limited public forum," as the ACLU’s lawsuit alleged.
ADF is America’s largest legal alliance defending religious liberty through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
Posted by Walt in Christmas categories at 5:37 PM EST
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Freedom of speech and expression that is guaranteed by the First Amendment is a year round fight.
ACLU relinquishes its attack on school district represented by ADF
Released: Friday, August 12, 2005
"The ACLU’s case was going nowhere fast," said Mike Johnson, an ADF attorney based in Shreveport. "Stockwell Place Elementary School’s display of a creche was unquestionably lawful and legitimate, and its allowance of equal access for Christian student organizations is in perfect compliance with the First Amendment."
One of the district’s schools displayed a nativity scene during the Christmas season of 2003 and has allowed other forms of religious expression on campus. This prompted the ACLU to file suit against the district and school officials.
"The ACLU’s case was going nowhere fast," said Mike Johnson, an ADF attorney based in Shreveport. "Stockwell Place Elementary School’s display of a creche was unquestionably lawful and legitimate, and its allowance of equal access for Christian student organizations is in perfect compliance with the First Amendment."
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that displays of religious symbols on public property-such as nativity scenes-are constitutional if placed for legitimate secular purposes such as celebrating a holiday or depicting its origins.
The ACLU, representing the parents of two former students at the school, had also objected to the school’s inclusion of religious songs in its Christmas program and to its allowance of a Christian club to voluntarily meet during recess.
On April 4, U.S. District Court Judge Maurice Hicks, Jr., granted in part the school district’s motion to dismiss the case because the original plaintiffs moved out of state. As part of the settlement, the ACLU agreed to waive any claims for damages or attorneys’ fees against the school district, and the school board reaffirmed its longstanding commitment to follow the law and its applicable policies.
ADF is America’s largest legal alliance defending religious liberty through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
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Posted by Walt in Christmas categories at 3:42 PM EST
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I will be posting information and articles on how the political correct groups in the U.S. and the world are diminishing our freedom of speech and expression.
All articles will be the truth. To make the point, some will be in humorous tongue-and-check.
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