ACLU Protects Americans From Religion

A Louisiana Mayor began holding Bible Studies at the building his office is located. Guess who objected? Not the good people of Mandeville, LA. Nope ... It was the old (Anti) American Civil Liberties Union. This is an organization that takes a left (atheistic) view of the First Amendment and attacks Christian values and morals as contrary to their relativistic view of Secular Humanism.

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Bibles? Better call the ACLU.

Two weeks ago, the mayor of Mandeville, Louisiana, quietly started a weekly lunchtime Bible study at City Hall, a location chosen for its convenience for him and his employees. Of course, this doesn't sit too well with the ACLU, which wasn't even aware of the situation until it was notified by a reporter from The Times-Picayune. In response, the executive director of the ACLU's Louisiana chapter said that city officials cannot advance or endorse religion in their public capacity or use a municipal building for that purpose. Mayor Eddie
Price countered by saying, "This is not an 'in your face' issue. If it becomes a point of confrontation, I'll have it at my house."

Mayor Eddie Price is merely exercising his right to practice religion. There is no city government agenda; ergo there is no government legislation to establishing a religion. In fact this is a local government and a private individual; this has nothing to do with Congress.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Mayor Price is not establishing a religion; he has said it is free for all to attend. It is a noble effort for Price (a civic leader) to share his faith in a Hurricane Katrina ravaged area. Price is not imposing his faith, he is sharing it. Those that are offended need not attend or be penalized. It is the free exercise of faith and the ACLU is attempting to keep people from that free exercise.