6.25.07

God Grants ADF 33rd Victory at the U.S. Supreme Court!

This morning the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the so-called "Freedom From Religion Foundation" (FFRF) lacked taxpayer standing to challenge a White House conference that informed both faith-based and secular organizations about federal funding for programs that help the poor.

In layman's terms this means the athiests and allies who claimed the conference violated the so-called "separation of church and state" lost.

ADF filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of We Care America, a faith-based organization with affiliates in 28 states, asking the Supreme Court to enforce federal "standing" requirements which require that plaintiffs actually demonstrate concrete injury in Establishment Clause cases before they can proceed with expensive lawsuits.

A loss at the U.S. Supreme Court would have encouraged numerous other legal attacks on faith-based organizations by groups such as the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence says: "Simply claiming to being "offended" by religion doesn't allow a taxpayer to run to a court and have a judge stop something he or she doesn't like. The high court rightly noted such an interpretation of the Establishment Clause was far from what was intended by our Founding Fathers, who sought to encourage religious involvement in the life of the community, not exclude it. Real people could have suffered if the atheists' lawsuit would have been allowed to move forward."

You can read the opinion written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito in Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/HeinOpinion.pdf.

Thank you for making this important victory - the 33rd at the Supreme Court for ADF and its allies in thirteen short years - possible through your faithful prayers and support!

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