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During the past few days, Village of Niles, Illinois, officials have negotiated with Rob Sherman Advocacy in an attempt to head off a lawsuit challenging their use of government property and government funds to promote and endorse the Christian religion. Those negotiations have produced an agreement to have the matter resolved by a federal judge.
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The dispute began about a decade ago, when Niles had only the huge, 37,584 square inch (261 square foot) nativity scene in front of their previous village hall, which was located at the corner of Howard Street and Milwaukee Avenue. In response to an inquiry by me to review the constitutionality of such a practice, Niles officials added a two-and-a-quarter square inch (0.02 square foot) Hanukah menorah and a 1,809 square inch (12.5 square foot) snowball-type Santa Claus. Those things certainly didn't secularize the holiday display, but no resident was willing to come forward at that time to join me in defending the constitution. Without a resident to serve as the plaintiff, the case could not go to court.
That changed last year, when Niles resident and fellow patriot Leonard Reinebach contacted me to request my assistance in challenging the blatantly unconstitutional conduct of his local officials. I made a presentation at one of the two November, 2001, Niles Village Board meetings. They took a year to review the matter and decided to change nothing. After I raised the issue again last week, they added three candle sticks and three candy canes, placing them way off in the corner, next to Santa.
Yesterday, I informed Niles that the additions didn't even come close to bringing the holiday display into constitutionally-permissible standards. What is required with such a display is a secular scene, which the courts have ruled may include sectarian items, rather than a sectarian (religious) scene which has a few secular items off in a corner. The bottom line is that the overall effect must be secular, rather than religious, and that's not what's happening, here.
Niles responded yesterday that they would not be making any other changes, so I informed Niles that we would be asking a federal judge to review the matter and decide whose right.
Rob Sherman Advocacy has asked the attorney we use for such matters to prepare the lawsuit. The attorney has promised to do so in the next few days, but he has asked to be paid. He deserves to be paid, but we don't have the money to pay him.
It sure would be helpful if you would send, today, a check to Rob Sherman Advocacy to help share the cost of doing this and other projects. I shouldn't have to pay out of my own pocket the entire cost of defending everybody else's constitutional rights. At some point, very soon, I'm going to completely run out of money. Then, I'll have to get a job doing something else and I won't be able to do this any more. That would make a lot of Republicans really happy.
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