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ALLIANCE DEFENSE
FUND NEWS RELEASE
December 8, 2006 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020
ADF sends
informational letter, offer of legal assistance to mayor
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
— Attorneys with the
Alliance Defense Fund have sent an informational letter offering free
legal assistance to the members of the Winston-Salem City Council
after the ACLU complained about members’ opening prayers at public
meetings.
“Reasonable people understand that there’s nothing wrong with opening
a public meeting with prayer. Once again, the ACLU’s desire to purge
Christianity from every facet of public life has reared its ugly
head,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson. “Their tiresome
claims that the law requires all public prayer to remain ‘neutral,’
and therefore meaningless, has no constitutional roots whatsoever.”
A copy of the informational letter mailed to Winston-Salem Mayor Allen
Joines is available at
www.telladf.org/UserDocs/JoinesLetter.pdf.
“The ACLU’s radical demands that Americans, including those in public
office, adhere to their view of religious expression should be
ignored,” Johnson said. “As long as the ACLU continues to push their
vision for a new America devoid of religion in the public square, ADF
will continue to defend government officials targeted by the ACLU’s
campaign of fear, intimidation, and disinformation.”
ADF is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and
speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
www.telladf.org
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