American Religious and Legal Heritage Protection Project
• Christian Fundamentalism
This is called a legal pre-emptive strike against the ACLU and other organizations that seek to remove tacky Christian crap, sorry, monumnents to America's religious heritage from public spaces.
SLF spokesman Todd Young says the unorthodox effort has successfully "kicked off" in the SLF's home state of Georgia, and the foundation is hoping that the project will make the same steady progress nationwide. When SLF rolled out the project, Young explains, the group immediately found some very strong advocates in the Georgia state legislature "for the proposal to place the Ten Commandments in a historical and religious context -- a very specific context -- and authorize that for placement in every courthouse in the State of Georgia."
Encouraged by the initial support, SLF aims to implement the proposal state-by-state throughout the country. Young says having the states mandate the displays will take the burden off local governments, which do not have the resources to fight court challenges.
Lawmakers in Maryland and Ohio are already interested in the American Religious and Legal Heritage Protection Project, and SLF is confident that its proposal will stand up to legal scrutiny. "We believe that this particular proposal will survive court challenge, " Young says, "and it's inevitably going to be challenged by the ACLU and others."
Speaking as a happy village atheist kind of guy, you know, I don't really care if the Christians have their objects d'art, statues, plaques, and whatnots. Nobody believes in Christianity because of such artifacts. No one has been converted by reading they should kill their neighbor.
Sure, the pervasiveness is annoying. Tell you, as a gay man the pervasiveness of heterosexuality is often wearing and oppressive and I bet you don't want that removed.
Voting matters, getting others to vote matters. Sometimes I fear squabbling with the faithful over their public trinkets is a way for atheists to feel they've accomplished something. Go pat yourself on the back.
Legal Group Hopes Proposal Ends Local Ten Commandments Battles