Fundies: Infidels trying to remove Jesus from the city council meeting

[marmar]

from the American Family Association's OneNewsNow, trying to bring Theocracy to a country near you:



ACLU, Americans United target council prayers
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 7/13/2009 7:00:00 AM


A city council in the Lone Star State is under attack for praying in the name of Jesus.

The complaint comes from two groups -- the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State -- which, in a letter to the council, noted that videos of meetings over a nine-month period indicated that every prayer except one began or ended with an invocation of the name of Jesus Christ.

"We write to inform you that sectarian prayers at city council meetings are unconstitutional," said the letter. The ACLU and Americans United urge the council to either "consider ceasing the prayers altogether" or, at least, "take steps to ensure that the prayers are nonsectarian."

Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver explains the antagonists' tactic. "Both of these groups now are combining together to try to intimidate the San Marcos city council, saying that generic prayers are okay, possibly -- but don't dare mention Jesus Christ," he says.

Staver, who is also dean of the Liberty University Law School, goes on to say the two groups actually misrepresent the Supreme Court decision in the case called Marsh v. Chambers, which actually upheld legislative prayer.

"They say that that case upheld it only if you remove all references to Christ -- which is absolutely not true," he emphasizes.

According to the Liberty Counsel attorney, prayer has been a part of government meetings since America's founding -- and it is just as valid, and legal, today.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=598106

[gratuitous]

1. San Marcos probably has better things to spend its money on

But if they need a court ruling that they're violating the Constitution, I'm sure the ACLU will oblige their thirst for knowledge they should already possess. Oh, and being the "dean of the Liberty University Law School" is just slightly less prestigious than being the King Shit of Turd Island.

[billyoc]

2. You can stay, Jesus, but your friends got to GO.

[Joanne98]

3. Heretics get no respect.

[Chulanowa]

4. It clearly says there on the front door, "Shoes required"

If Jesus wants to be part of the meeting, he has to follow the dress code.

[regnaD kciN]

5. My college once elected God to the student council...

...but He got impeached after the other members decided His ways were too mysterious for proper legislative procedure. ;-)

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. My brother got a stuffed fish elected to student government....

...when they tried to sanction him for making a travesty of student government he told them that it was impossible to make a travesty of a farce.

[armyowalgreens]

7. Liberty U. School of Law= lolerskates.

[donco6]

8. Jesus sure lets people kick him around.

What with being God and all, I'd think there'd be some serious smiting going on.

[Autumn]

9. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Great now I have to clean my keyboard. Or maybe God smote me for laughing.

[KamaAina]

10. "combining together"?

Is that even legal in Texas? :eyes: