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To: SilentZ who wrote (303529)	9/18/2006 6:28:50 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572208

You kidding? They do a ton of stuff. Look at their website. Nowhere on the homepage do you find anything about stripping the Pledge or removing the Ten Commandments. Those are just the things that become newsworthy because people like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity rail about. Would you like to retract your statement? Or are you "nuancing" your position? aclu.org WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the Supreme Court to uphold a federal appeals court ruling that public schools are constitutionally barred from linking patriotism and piety by reciting the phrase "under God" as part of the Pledge of Allegiance. "The government should not be asking impressionable schoolchildren to affirm their allegiance to God at the same time that they are affirming their allegiance to the country," said ACLU Legal Director Steven R. Shapiro. aclu.org Georgia County Agrees to Remove Ten Commandments Display from Courthouse ATLANTA--A federal judge today approved an order proposed jointly by Barrow County and the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia requiring the removal of a Ten Commandments display from the county courthouse. ACLU Applauds Supreme Court Ruling in Kentucky Ten Commandments Case WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded a Supreme Court ruling that Ten Commandments displays in two Kentucky courthouses are unconstitutional. The ruling came in a case brought by the ACLU of Kentucky.