From the Indiana Republican Party-
The ACLU is attacking our religious freedoms, this time in Indiana.
A Dangerous Attack on Religious LibertyIndiana has reentered the national spotlight this week due to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union filing a lawsuit against our Speaker of the House Brian Bosma. The lawsuit has received support from across the nation including organizations such as The Family Research Council, The 700 Club, and American Values.
This week I've asked Luke Messer, our Executive Director, to share his thoughts on the lawsuit against Speaker Bosma:
This week the Indiana Civil Liberties Union (ICLU) filed a lawsuit against Indiana Speaker of the House, Brian Bosma, for allowing prayer before each day's legislative session. The ICLU argues that while prayer in the legislature is not necessarily inappropriate, since Bosma and House Republicans took over the statehouse this year, the statehouse prayers have not reflected Indiana's diverse religious communities.
Specifically, the ICLU's legal director Ken Falk argues that "At least 26 prayers were clearly Christian. They were clearly praising Jesus, which is appropriate in your home or church, but it's not appropriate for the state of Indiana to be doing from the floor of the General Assembly."
There is more to the story, but I don't have a link just yet...
Anyhow...the ACLU cannot do this. They are continuing to shred the US Constitution with their lawsuits attacking Christians, and these lawsuits are aimed are limiting our religious freedoms as Christians. No doubt, the ACLU is not a Christian-friendly organization, some of their biggest campaigns are attacks on all things Christian- including the boy scouts, prayer in public life, Christmas in schools and in government buildings, the rights of Americans to invoke the name of God anywhere they want (including the Indiana State House), etc.
These attacks by the ACLU cannot stand, and with hard work in fighting this group, they will not stand. The ACLU is a friend to no American (unless you're a nazi, a member of the KKK or NAMBLA, or an atheist), if you're not part of one of those groups, the ACLU will fight to destroy the rights guaranteed you by the US Constitution, and they do it everyday.
Prayers in the state house are not an act of Congress, and it's not an establishment of religion...no one but the fools as the ACLU could argue that it is. The 1st Amendment denies the government from limiting your guaranteed freedoms...Indiana state government officials are guaranteed these rights as well, and the rights cannot be limited to certain places or times (such as, outside of government). This is clear cut, and the ACLU is violating the law by attempting to limit the freedoms they don't think we should have. The ACLU doesn't get a say on what rights they think we should have, and which ones they don't think we should have...as the founders point out- religious freedom and freedom of government intervention isn't a right they gave us, but a right from God that no man can take away. Yet, the ACLU argues that, indeed THEY CAN take away our God given rights. That's not only illegal and contrary to the basic beliefs of the founding fathers, it's also an example of the ACLU's god complex...that they seem to think they can actually deny Americans our rights given by God (as the founders pointed out).
Contact the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and demand they stop their attack on religious freedom. Tell them to pick up a copy of the US Constitution, and obey the law.
I contacted the ICLU myself, and I've pasted the (admittedly hastily written) letter below...
I read about the ICLU's lawsuit against Indiana Speaker of the House, Brian Bosma, for allowing prayer before each day's legislative session. I urge the ICLU to drop this lawsuit immediately. The group has no right to deny the religious liberty given to us by God and written out by the Founders.
The 1st Amendement of the US Constitution (ICLU knows what it says, but refuses to abide by it, so I will paste it here) says:
Amendment I - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Speaker Bosma is not a member of the US Congress, and prayers given in the state house are not laws by Congress. The ACLU all over the US has used it's phony reasoning to claim that they have a right to such lawsuits. Spkr Bosma is entitled to the rights guaranteed to him and every other American, and these rights cannot be denied him while serving in the official capacity of Speaker of the House.
Hoosiers will not tolerate the ICLU in its attempt to deny any of us our religious freedoms, and your attacks on Christianity (with this case and others) is deplorable.
I demand that the ICLU end its attack on Christianity, and stop trying to deny hoosiers the rights we are guaranteed. As the founders pointed out- the basic rights, such as religious liberty, is a God-given right that no man can take away from us. The ICLU is included in that group...no man can take away these rights, and no group (especially the ICLU) can take them away either.
Stop your attacks on hoosiers...the ICLU loses all credibility when it claims to defend the US and Indiana Constitution, yet attacks the liberties guaranteed within those documents.