Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation

    This will be one of those rare times that i make a comment on politics and ' religion '  as far as seperation of church and state is concerned.

    The Supreme Court will soon hear a case on seperation of church and state in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, a case involving the standing (or legal right) of taxpayers to bring a lawsuit challenging federal government expenditures in violation of the Establishment Clause.

From People For The American Way:

The case is a critical one for church-state separation, as the religious right is using it as a vehicle to urge the Court to eliminate taxpayer standing in Establishment Clause cases, which would significantly undermine the ability of Americans to obtain access to the courts to vindicate their constitutional right to religious liberty.
In fact, Pat Robertson's ACLJ has taken direct aim at taxpayer standing in Establishment Clause cases, announcing that it has filed its own "friend-of-the-court brief asking the Supreme Court to put an end to federal taxpayer lawsuits by church-state separationists." According to the ACLJ, "separationists enjoy special privileges by being able to file lawsuits simply because they are 'taxpayers' without having to show they were actually injured in some way by a law or government activity." This of course is not true, as a fundamental purpose of the Establishment Clause is to protect Americans from the injury of being coerced or required, financially or otherwise, to support religious beliefs with which they may not agree.
Perhaps even more radical is the position of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who violated the Constitution by placing a huge monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the state Judicial Building and was kicked off the bench when he refused to comply with a federal court order to remove it. Moore and the Foundation for Moral Law have filed a brief in Hein taking the extreme—and extremely erroneous—position that the Establishment Clause does not even "protect an individual right and cannot be the basis for an individual lawsuit."

    I have no problem with a government official hanging the ten commandments in their office or on the government building itself. I think that the ' banners ' of Christianity should be displayed in government buildings and all of our schools and the thoughts behind then taught to the students every day.

   I do not need Pat Roberts or any of the rest of those clowns telling me when I can or cannot sue for my ' religious ' rights and beliefs. This group of idiots would have us all bowing down to just one view, theirs.

    I find that the so-called fundamentalist Christians are far worse than any devil could ever hope to be and should basically be sent into their little corner and told to shut up!

 

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