Sunnyside: let's take on the ACLU

Editorial:

SUNNYSIDE (2-98)---It's time for a small, local government to take on the ubiquitous American Civil Liberties Union.

Editorial staff at the Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, have raised the issue of Sunnyside City Council prayer to Jerry Sheehan, ACLU legislative director in Seattle. Reporters like a good dog fight better than most. So let's provide one for the constipated little rascals!

The ACLU is a powerful group of mostly left-wing louts that sprints around sueing local schools and towns who try to introduce prayer into their graduation ceremonies and council meetings.

They're the same cadre of cowards that sniffed and turned a blind eye when asked to determine if the feds compromised the civil rights of Branch-Davidian children at Waco.

ACLU loves to pick fights with small localities.

Once the ACLU threatens most towns and school districts, usually via a letter, most frightened local administrators fold. They're plain scared.

Locals tremble at the thought of facing down a nationwide group of lawyers that noses into local affairs. Then they fold.

It's time to take on the ACLU. Bullies have a way of folding themselves, when popped in the snout.

Where locals in the past have shellacked these shysters, lets use their tactics. Let's find out the worst the ACLU can do. Let's document it. When we find the worst the ACLU can do, let's outflank them. Let's beat them. And maybe next time the ACLU will pick on someone their own size.

Let the ACLU take the matter to the Supreme Court, if necessary.

The Supreme Court is composed of justices who ostensibly support this country's Declaration of Independence. And that document firmly plants the roots of this country deep into the belief in a supreme deity, God. "In God we Trust" is engraved onto the very coins that jingle in our pockets.

We have placed our trust in God, in prayer, since long before the ACLU slithered onto the scene.

Prayer is to God--not to any organized church--and no outside group should be able to ride in and threatened a small town that wants to pray before its council meetings convene.

--D.F.