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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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Religion is a choice not all of us have it. There's atheists to consider. They have every right to practice their way of life...ONE religion ought not be forced.
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Whatever happen to enforcing the 1st Amendments and Religious Freedom- WTF were the pilgrims coming over here for then?
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The Establishment Clause is the only way that our First Amendment rights will be protected. This country was founded by those being persecuted because of their religious beliefs.
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we all have the right to worship as we see fit , & this right should not be taken away from us . it does not matter what religion you are , we should all still have the right to practice it . Stand up for what you be - lieve in !
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Everyone in America has the right to worship as they please without fear of persecution. That's the way we need to make sure it stays.
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Separation of Church and State is extremely important to the future of our country. Eliminating checks and balances is a dangerous idea. Karl Rove and Pres. Bush have already done what they can to give federal funding to religious organizations, and then they allow these organizations to discriminate against Americans who don't agree with them in some way. We have already lost much of the separation of Church and State. This would be another crushing blow. Stop this before the U.S. becomes more of a theocracy, unless our goal is to become more the countries in the Middle East - where we claim we need to spread democracy. How hypocritical is that!
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Keep religion free, and stay out of it!
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I and all of us have the right to worship and what we believe in. No one has the right to tell us how to and what to believe in.
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Christians wake up, our faith is being challenged.
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From the founding of this country freedom of religon has always been formost. Congress should worry about Congress insted.
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This country was built on the foundation of freedom of Religion. It is our Contitutional Right!
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