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Keep Religion Free in Your Community
Target: United States SenateSponsored by: Defcon - Campaign to Defend the Constitution
The Establishment Clause in the Bill of Rights is supposed to keep our government from interfering with religion, guard against the states' use of religion for political purposes, and ensure that the government does not act in a way
that prefers one religion over another, so that we may all worship freely.
But while the Establishment Clause protects our basic freedoms, it is not self-enforcing. If someone is forced to sue the government to protect their constitutional rights, justice and fairness dictate they be able to recover their legal fees expended to do so.
The Public Expression of Religion Act would prevent citizens from recovering their litigation costs if they sue to stop state-sponsored religion. This law is brazenly designed to make it next to impossible for private citizens to sue to protect their First Amendment rights because lawsuits are prohibitively expensive.
In other words, Congress and the Religious Right want to cement the establishment of their own religion as dominant via the force of the government, and the force of law.
Tell your Senators that religious freedom is more important than the agenda of the religious right!
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We signed the “Keep Religion Free in Your Community” petition!
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To say you can't get your money back is nothing more than theft.
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The Public Expression of Religion Act [H.R. 2679] is cynical & Orwellian. Typical neo-conservative religious extremist BS - it sounds like something worthwhile, but that's the Orwellian part, and cynical like all neo-con produced claptrap 'legislation' - it harms, not helps. Come November vote these bastards out!
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Keep them seperate, I will worship who I want when I want and people have died to give me that right and to keep it. Why besmirch the character of those who gave us that freedom like any other freedom, and try to take away mine in the process?
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Separation of religion and government benefits both!
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The Public Expression of Religion Act is a SNEAK ATTACK by the Religious Right to make it virtually impossible for ordinary citizens without the deep pockets of their opponents, to challenge infringements of our Civil Liberties, and the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Religious displays of a particular religion sponsored by the State, are an infringement of EVERYONE'S rights to worship {or not} as they choose.
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This is very disturbing, this act would compleatly destroy the values we as Americans all hold dear to us. Remember that all of us who sign this petition are voters, and if not all of us, then most of us do have family and friends who vote and care about there rights to freedom of speech and religion as well. How does the federal goverment think that it can dictate our very thoughts and worshiping ideals to us? Have we now become that SOVIET UNION that was our sworn enemy for so long?
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Although I am agnostic, religion is one thing, state and politics other. Therefore is important to get them separated or freedom will be something from the past. How about those who have no religion or a diferent one? Where do they fit in? State for who is a religeous follower the others... and the freedom of choice?
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What would be left without religion? We need it!
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