Court asked to restore to Christians the rights that political correctness in the United States today grants other religions

Political correctness has been eroding Christian rights here in the United States for years. It seems that authorities bend over for Islam, trying to accommodate Muslims. They can pray whenever they want, have special foot-baths, special prayer rooms, ... yet Christians in many instances cannot pray, cannot use the name of God or Jesus. Finally some Christians are beginning to fight back. About time.

A court hearing is coming in which the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be asked to restore to Christians the rights that political correctness in the United States today grants other religions, including the right to pray to their God.

The case involves Rev. Hashmel Turner and the city of Fredericksburg, Va., and is being handled by the constitutional experts at The Rutherford Institute.

John Whitehead, the founder and chief of The Rutherford Institute, told WND it's an issue of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, burdened with the politically correct atmosphere in the United States that appears to endorse or at least allow any sort of religious acknowledgement, such as the University of Michigan building footbaths for Muslims, but allows no similar acknowledgement of Christianity.

He said the Fredericksburg case is one of the first to be battled through the courts, and is being watched closely by city councils and state legislatures across the country. [snip]

WND has reported several times on various religious leaders, including one high-profile Hindu from Arizona, who have been asked to say prayers at various state legislatures and in the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, leaders in the Senate specifically rejected permission for a Christian leader, former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, permission to do the same.

The arguments in the Turner case will be March 19, and will focus on the circumstances that led the city to tell Turner, "You can't refer to your God," said Whitehead.

"The essential question in this case is whether the government can provide an opportunity to pray to a select group of individuals, all the while dictating the content of the prayers and excluding anyone who refuses to go along with their dictates," Whitehead said.

"The answer, as the Supreme Court has ruled in the past, is in the negative – the government simply cannot prescribe or proscribe the content of any 'official' prayer without violating the Establishment Clause, and it cannot discriminate against any person based on his or her religious viewpoint without violating that person's rights to free speech and free religious expression," he said. (continue reading at WND)

Other reading:
Arab Journalist: 'I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism', LGF

The Jeremiah Wright video, Instapundit
Hamas, Cease Fire and Bill Cosby, at YID with LID
Hot Air TV: Sen. John Kerry confronted about Winter Soldier II, Michelle Malkin
From McClellan to Fallon, Power Line
Low-hanging fruit: Antiwar organizer hates the troops, America, Hot Air
Buchanan flips out, tells guest to ’shut up!’, Think Progress

Comments

[David M]

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[MK]

Good on them, the way i see it when the only way the PC brigade will be brought to their knees is to paralyze them, when they're all squabbling over who's rights and entitlements and the whole house comes crashing down, they'll finally have to accept that one identity and one culture is the only way.

[durano lawayan]

Hi Debbie,

I think the arguments are clear enough. If something is done that clearly favors one religion which is denied other religions;then that is definitely discrimination.

If actions are so skewed in deference to one group, this is an outright manifestation of injustice.
--Durano, done!

[Layla]

It's about time that someone, somewhere did something for Christian rights. I hope he wins!

[Angel]

I hope typepad fixed the comments so I dont have to resign Deb..lol..this post is news to me..I wonder what will come of this?..ACLU shouting yet? :)