Notes from the NFRW Convention
PREAMBLE
WHEREAS, lawsuits are being brought all across America by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), atheists, intolerant
secularists, and others, attacking the public display of symbols of our American history and heritage if they contain words or
symbols of a religious aspect, including veterans’ memorials, on public seals ,in display of the Ten Commandments, and even in
the oath of the Boy Scouts to do their duty to God and country, alleging violations of the Establishment of Religion Clause (also
called Separation of Church and State) of the Constitution;
WHEREAS, unknown to many if not most Americans, the ACLU, and other organizations, have reaped enormous profits from such
Establishment Clause lawsuits requesting, under laws originally intended to benefit the poor and not to enrich the ACLU or other
affluent organizations, and receiving under those laws from like-minded judges, court-ordered attorney fee “awards” in the millions
of dollars to be paid to the ACLU by taxpayers who in the main abhor these ACLU lawsuits.
WHEREAS, in sworn testimony at hearings in the U.S. Senate and House it was established that the ACLU has used the very threat
of imposition of its attorney fees as a “club” to bludgeon local elected bodies, including school boards, cities, counties, states, and
the Federal Government, to surrender to ACLU’s secular-cleansing demands, thus inhibiting such governments’ constitutional
actions under the first, tenth, and fourteenth amendments and extorting money from taxpayers; and
WHEREAS, the Veteran’s Memorial, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Action of 2007
(“PERA”), S. 415 and H.R. 725 would prevent such abuse by amending the Civil Rights Attorney Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S. Code
Section 1988, and all other relevant laws, by withdrawing the authority of judges to award taxpayer-paid attorney fees to the ACLU, or
anyone else, in Establishment Clause Cases, and would limit judicial remedies to injunctive and declarative relief;
RESOLVED, that the National Federation of Republican Women call upon the 110th Congress to pass the Public Expression of
Religion Act (PERA), S.R. 415/H.R.725, and also urge all NFRW members to contact their U.S. Senate and House delegations with
a request to co-sponsor the PERA and to vote for it.
Submitted by the Kansas Federation of Republican Women (KFRW)
Brenda Smith, President
WHEREAS, lawsuits are being brought all across America by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), atheists, intolerant
secularists, and others, attacking the public display of symbols of our American history and heritage if they contain words or
symbols of a religious aspect, including veterans’ memorials, on public seals ,in display of the Ten Commandments, and even in
the oath of the Boy Scouts to do their duty to God and country, alleging violations of the Establishment of Religion Clause (also
called Separation of Church and State) of the Constitution;
WHEREAS, unknown to many if not most Americans, the ACLU, and other organizations, have reaped enormous profits from such
Establishment Clause lawsuits requesting, under laws originally intended to benefit the poor and not to enrich the ACLU or other
affluent organizations, and receiving under those laws from like-minded judges, court-ordered attorney fee “awards” in the millions
of dollars to be paid to the ACLU by taxpayers who in the main abhor these ACLU lawsuits.
WHEREAS, in sworn testimony at hearings in the U.S. Senate and House it was established that the ACLU has used the very threat
of imposition of its attorney fees as a “club” to bludgeon local elected bodies, including school boards, cities, counties, states, and
the Federal Government, to surrender to ACLU’s secular-cleansing demands, thus inhibiting such governments’ constitutional
actions under the first, tenth, and fourteenth amendments and extorting money from taxpayers; and
WHEREAS, the Veteran’s Memorial, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Action of 2007
(“PERA”), S. 415 and H.R. 725 would prevent such abuse by amending the Civil Rights Attorney Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S. Code
Section 1988, and all other relevant laws, by withdrawing the authority of judges to award taxpayer-paid attorney fees to the ACLU, or
anyone else, in Establishment Clause Cases, and would limit judicial remedies to injunctive and declarative relief;
RESOLVED, that the National Federation of Republican Women call upon the 110th Congress to pass the Public Expression of
Religion Act (PERA), S.R. 415/H.R.725, and also urge all NFRW members to contact their U.S. Senate and House delegations with
a request to co-sponsor the PERA and to vote for it.
Submitted by the Kansas Federation of Republican Women (KFRW)
Brenda Smith, President
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