Action Alert
Rally Around the Supreme Court Ten Commandments Cases On March 2, 2005 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two Ten Commandment cases,
Thomas Van Orden v. Rick Peary, et al. and McCreary County, Kentucky, et al. v. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, et al. The two cases challenge the constitutionality of Ten Commandments display on government property.
Displays of the Ten Commandments on public property blatantly violate the First Amendment ban on government promotion of religion. It is not the duty of government to endorse a sectarian point of view.
The American Humanist Association, as well as organizations participating in the rally, submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court. The AHA's brief was signed by an array of sixteen religious and secular organizations and shows the perspective of those who are disenfranchised by government-endorsed displays of the Ten Commandments.
As defenders of church-state separation, we call upon the Court to affirm church-state separation. A ruling that lowers the already vulnerable wall between religion and government would render religious minorities and the nonreligious to second-class citizenship.
ACTION
We urge you to join the AHA and its coalition partners of freethought and religious liberty groups in a rally on March 2, 2005 at the steps of the Supreme Court building at 8:30 AM the day the oral arguments will be heard.
Please plan to attend the rally. Make your own poster or use one of ours. For more background on the Ten Commandments and these cases see the AHA's Ten Commandment Resources page at http://www.americanhumanist.org/10c/
Our perspective must not be absent from the media firestorm that is bound to erupt that day. Regardless of which way the Court rules on these landmark cases, their decisions will have implications that are sure to reverberate nationwide.
Rally to Support the Separation of Church and State!
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