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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/16/2012 11:42:19 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Contact the U.S. Senate: Oppose Judicial Activism |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Contact the U.S. Senate: Oppose Judicial Activism Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, We need your help. Jesse Furman, a lawyer with a proven track record of anti-Christian bigotry and judicial activism, has been nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. A vote is scheduled in the Senate tomorrow. HSLDA believes that the proposed confirmation of Mr. Furman should be stopped, because a traditional originalist view of the U.S. Constitution protects our rights as parents. In a brief to the Supreme Court in the Good News Club case (which arose in New York), Furman wrote: "In short, while the public school is '[d]esigned to serve as perhaps the most powerful agency for promoting cohesion among a heterogeneous democratic people,' the Good News Club is designed to do quite the opposite: to label children as either 'saved' or 'unsaved' and, thus, to promote religious belief in general and Christian belief in particular. Indeed, the Good News Club expressly teaches that adherence to a particular faith is essential to one's standing in the community - that those who 'have received the Lord Jesus as [their] Savior from sin ... belong to God's special group - His family.' " Furman characterized all of traditional Christianity as intolerant, and declared that a "categorical exclusion of that [Christian] speech as both a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral limitation, consistent with the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, and as a limitation mandated by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment." Request for Action: Call the following key senators at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to oppose Mr. Furman's nomination: Alexander (R-TN) Brown (R-MA) Chambliss (R-GA) Collins (R-ME) Graham (R-SC) Isakson (R-GA) Kirk (R-IL) Lugar (R-IN) McCain (R-AZ) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Snowe (R-ME) Thune (R-SD). Time is of the essence, so please call today! For more information on why Jesse Furman should be opposed, click here: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=13785 Standing with you for freedom, James R. Mason HSDLA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Will your friends stand by you in trouble? They will if you're an HSLDA member and your homeschool is threatened. HSLDA is ready to stand by your side along with 80,000 other homeschool families. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1105 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. Box 3000 Purcellville, Virginia 20134 Phone: (540) 338-5600 Fax: (540) 338-2733 Email: info@hslda.org Web: http://www.hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Subscribe: - Subscribe to the HSLDA E-lert Service at our website: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp?Process=Subscribe - Or send an email with name and complete mailing address to: subscribe@hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscription Information: - You subscribed to the HSLDA E-lert Service as: ##ToAddress## - To unsubscribe from the HSLDA E-lert Service send an email from the email address you want to unsubscribe to: unsubscribe@hslda.org - To change your email address or make other changes to your subscription, visit the HSLDA E-lert Service account web page at: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTMASTERS: This message is being sent to the most recent address we have for our subscribers. If this is an invalid email address or you have other problems, please reply to webmaster@hslda.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This is considered a private and confidential message from HSLDA to its bonafide HSLDA E-lert Service subscribers. HSLDA cannot attest to the authenticity of copies posted, forwarded, or sent by any party other than HSLDA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Please do not reply or otherwise use this email address; hslda@hslda.org is for broadcast purposes only and is not intended to receive incoming messages. We cannot reply to any email sent to this address. If you have comments or questions, please send email to info@hslda.org or call HSLDA at 540-338-5600. HSLDA members can also email staff directly through the Members website at http://members.hslda.org/contact.asp. Thank you for your cooperation. ====================================================================== | |
