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Pie-man watch continues....
The latest letter from David:
"Take a look at these two seals of the County of Los Angeles:
The one on the left was the official seal from 1957 until last September, when L.A.’s Board of Supervisors voted to abolish it in favor of the one on the right.
They did this because the ACLU threatened to sue Los Angeles County. Do you see the little cross on the old seal? Look closely. To the ACLU this is violation of the separation of church and state. So the supervisors reacted just as so many governments do nowadays – rather than fight to keep their seal, they voted 3-2 to get rid of the cross.
I’m writing you today to ask you to help me fight the ACLU in court to stop this outrage and get the old seal back.
The meaning of the cross is historical, not to promote a religion. Everything on the old seal represent a part of Los Angeles’ history. The cross represents the importance of the Catholic missions in the founding of Los Angeles. The stars next to it represent the film industry. The tuna represents the fishing industry and the cow the dairy industry.
And look what else the supervisors did: They replaced the central figure in the seal. The woman in the old seal is Pomona, the Etruscan goddess of gardens and fruit trees. She is holding in her arms a sheaf of grain, an orange, a lemon, an avocado and grapes to represent L.A. County’s agriculture.
The new seal shows a Native American woman who is supposed to represent the early inhabitants of the Los Angeles area. An Anthropologist who is familiar with the papers from the Smithsonian’s research concerning Indian Goddesses has suggested that she actually appears to be a depiction of the goddess Nautsiti, from the Keresan Pueblo tribe of New Mexico.
The ACLU and its allies want to remove every vestige and symbol of Judaeo-Christian religion from our public life, but apparently not symbols of primitivist religions. As long as the religion had nothing to do with the creation of American democracy, it’s okay. This is part of the same leftist attitude that motivated Michael Newdow to try to ban the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, and it’s the reason that Ten Commandment plaques are being removed from courthouses and squares in towns all across America. They want to take away Americans’ religious heritage, a heritage that was crucial to the American founding and the freedoms we enjoy today.
The attitude of these “liberals” is a bullying attitude, and it’s working. Cities, towns, and counties are ridding themselves of crosses and Ten Commandments plaques rather than fight the ACLU and its leftwing allies.
But some are going even farther – they want to remove every symbol of Western civilization too. The ACLU wasn’t threatening to sue L.A. County about the goddess at the center of the seal. But on their own they decided to replace her with a Native American woman.
Isn’t this typical of the Left? Here’s what they are telling you with these actions:
* Christianity is bad; Native American religion is good.
* Native Americans are interchangeable; a New Mexico tribe’s goddess can represent California’s early people.
* Real history is irrelevant; the European culture which actually created the state of California is suspect. The history they make up is what counts.
* Traditions don’t count; the left’s preferences do.
* The ACLU can do what it wants; you can’t stop them.
Is that how you want America to be? I don’t. I want to fight the ACLU on this issue – and win. That’s why the Center for the Study of Popular Culture is working on two fronts to reverse the actions of the county supervisors with the most powerful arguments possible against the ACLU’s position.
We have brought a case in state court, with me, the President of the Center as the lead plantiff, -- Horowitz, et al. vs. County of Los Angeles, et al. that challenges the constitutionality of the county’s decision to change the seal. It also challenges the county’s decision to go ahead and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make the change even though there are both court cases and an initiative pending.
And we’re also filing an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where a case is pending in Federal Court on the constitutionality of the county’s action.
We have terrific lawyers working with us who are experts on the establishment clause of the First Amendment. I am very hopeful that we can win.
This is one of our most important cases among the many we have been involved in, and are involved in now, to defend America’s Judaeo-Christian principles, individual rights, free speech, non-discrimination, and the rights of private organizations.
For example, we have had to establish a Boy Scouts Defense Fund because we have had so many cases involving the attacks on the Scouts by the ACLU and other groups. We are representing a teacher who lost his job over his conservative beliefs; and in another case a white applicant who was discriminated against on the basis of his race when he applied for a position as a firefighter.
We need to raise $25,000 right away for our legal work.
Will you take a moment right now to help with a contribution? Click this link to make a gift of $35, $50, $100 or more. It is costly to prepare and file legal cases, and our cases are vitally important.
America was founded on Judaeo-Christian principles. The Declaration of Independence tells us that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Our Creator, not the government or the ACLU.
The First Amendment to the Constitution tells us that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
The ACLU and its leftist allies think that putting a cross on a county seal is an establishment of religion. They think that just about any display of religion – a nativity scene at Christmas, the Ten Commandments in a park, the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer at a graduation – is unconstitutional.
That’s bad enough. But they go even farther. They’re trying to wipe our history clean of any religious influence. And we say that is showing unconstitutional hostility toward religion.
The court decision in Los Angeles County will affect far more than just Los Angeles. All around America, where the ACLU is trying to intimidate local officials into wiping out religious _expression, this case will be the weapon our side can use to fight back.
We need your help to win. Please give what you can today by going to this link right here. We need to win this case and the other significant cases we are involved in to turn the tide against the ACLU and the left
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
David Horowitz, President & Founder
P.S. It’s people like you who are the hope of America. The ACLU and their allies have hundreds of millions of dollars to carry out their anti-religion campaign. We have only a small fraction of their resources – but we have the truth and a fighting spirit on our side. "
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