North Carolina City Stands up to ACLU
Officials in Thomasville, N.C., voted 6-1 Monday to ignore threats from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and allow prayer at city-council meetings.
Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), provided the council with a proposed policy in compliance with the U.S. Constitution.
“It’s amazing that, in a country founded on religious liberty, the right to open a public meeting with a prayer would be under attack,” he said. “But that is exactly what the ACLU has been doing the past several months – using its familiar tactics of fear, intimidation and disinformation to force municipalities into passive compliance with its agenda to eliminate our First Liberty, religious freedom.”
Councilman Dwight Cornelius said he hopes other municipalities will stand up to the ACLU.
“This is a freedom of speech issue, pure and simple,” he said.
ADF offers assistance to any municipality that’s under attack for “simply continuing a practice that the Supreme Court knows is ‘deeply embedded in the history and tradition of our country,’ ” Johnson added.
Congratulations to the Thomasville city council. It's amazing how the 1st Amendment of the Constitution has been bastardized to fit the ideology of the ACLU communists. The 1st Amendment regarding religion states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
To summarize, it means, freedom of religion, not freedom FROM religion. It is merely stating that we cannot have a "national religion". On a side note, I wonder how many in the ACLU work on Christmas.
