This came in my e-mail today.
June 28, 2002
Dear Fellow American,
We need you to forward this e-mail to EVERYONE YOU KNOW right away!
As you've surely heard by now, a radical left-wing federal appeals court ruled
on Wednesday that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is
unconstitutional... because it includes the words, "under God"!
The San Francisco court ruled that the phrase amounts to a government
endorsement of religion in violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause,
which prohibits the government from establishing religion.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS... but we CAN do something about it!
Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK) has introduced the Religious Freedom Restoration
Amendment (H.J. RES. 81), to amend the Constitution of the United States to
allow expressions of religious freedom on public property... including the right
to say the Pledge of Allegiance. In fact, if this amendment had already been in
place, that appeals court wouldn't have even had the opportunity to make such a
decision, one that President Bush immediately called "ridiculous". CLICK BELOW
NOW to send a message to your Congressmen, urging them to support H.J. RES. 81:
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Istook has stated that that this new ruling is just another reason Congress
should approve his amendment, because it protects the Pledge of Allegiance as
well as protecting voluntary student prayer.
"I'm appalled, but not surprised," said Istook. "The First Amendment was
designed to protect religious freedom, but wayward judges like these misuse it
to attack religion. Bit-by-bit, the ACLU and its sympathizers are winning their
36-year fight against America's religious freedoms and religious heritage. Only
a constitutional amendment, such as I've proposed, will stop them."
"Sure, some people are intolerant," Istook noted; "they object to hearing God
mentioned at a school or public place, but that doesn't give them the right to
censor the rest of us. This ruling shows just how out-of-touch too many judges
are, and how they've turned common-sense upside-down. Don't mandate prayer or
religious messages, but for heaven's sake don't ban them either!"
Rep. Istook's proposed amendment was introduced in the House of Representatives
back in January... but it hasn't even been introduced in the Senate yet! NOW is
the time to get the House AND the Senate to MOVE on this bill, and YOU can get
them moving!
ConservativeAlerts.com has set up a website where you can send a pre-written
message (that you can modify) IMMEDIATELY to your Congressmen, urging them to
support H.J. RES. 81, the First Amendment Restoration Act. You can send an
e-mail for FREE, print out your letter and fax or mail it in, or even send an
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NOTE: Be sure to forward this e-mail to EVERYONE YOU KNOW right away -- this
proposed amendment still hasn't been introduced in the Senate yet, so we need to
act FAST, with LOTS of people demanding action against this radical leftist
court ruling NOW. Thank you!
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