Waste of Taxpayer money???
According the the Times Union a Jacksonville newspaper, American Atheists Inc have filed a lawsuit over the cities "Day of Faith". And here is the kicker... they are suing on behalf of taxpayers!
The Times Union reports "A Day of Faith: Arming Our Prayer Warriors featured short sermons by several Christian ministers, prayers and religious music. One Muslim and one Jewish leader also participated.... The mayor has also noted that secular nonprofit agencies were heavily involved in the effort."
So what we have here is a Town wide event sponsored by numerous charitable organizations in an effort to try and lower the homicide rate, which at the time stood at 96 for the year. But because there were religious leaders there who encouraged the group to pray, the American Atheists say taxpayers should not have to foot the bill.
I have a question for American Atheists Inc., lets say hypothetically a Judge rules in your favor and sais the Town had no right to spend $101,000 to hold this event... where do you think the money will come from? Anyone else think it is moronic to sue on behalf of taxpayers, when it will obviously be taxpayers footing the bill? And lets not forget those legal fees!
And here comes the ACLU. According to the article :
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Jacksonville, meanwhile, has filed records requests with the city seeking information on who was invited to the rally and its funding.
Chapter President Ken Hurley said he's received some of the requested documents and that he has forwarded them to ACLU attorneys for review. But he said it is far too early to predict whether the organization will also file a lawsuit.
"You can't expect that but you can't rule it out, either," Hurley said."
Who are you kidding Ken? The only way the ACLU wont get involved in this thing is if the case is settled before the lawyers figure out how much they can bill the taxpayers for suing them!
The Times Union reports "A Day of Faith: Arming Our Prayer Warriors featured short sermons by several Christian ministers, prayers and religious music. One Muslim and one Jewish leader also participated.... The mayor has also noted that secular nonprofit agencies were heavily involved in the effort."
So what we have here is a Town wide event sponsored by numerous charitable organizations in an effort to try and lower the homicide rate, which at the time stood at 96 for the year. But because there were religious leaders there who encouraged the group to pray, the American Atheists say taxpayers should not have to foot the bill.
I have a question for American Atheists Inc., lets say hypothetically a Judge rules in your favor and sais the Town had no right to spend $101,000 to hold this event... where do you think the money will come from? Anyone else think it is moronic to sue on behalf of taxpayers, when it will obviously be taxpayers footing the bill? And lets not forget those legal fees!
And here comes the ACLU. According to the article :
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Jacksonville, meanwhile, has filed records requests with the city seeking information on who was invited to the rally and its funding.
Chapter President Ken Hurley said he's received some of the requested documents and that he has forwarded them to ACLU attorneys for review. But he said it is far too early to predict whether the organization will also file a lawsuit.
"You can't expect that but you can't rule it out, either," Hurley said."
Who are you kidding Ken? The only way the ACLU wont get involved in this thing is if the case is settled before the lawyers figure out how much they can bill the taxpayers for suing them!
posted by Siggy at 8:58 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home