This came to me in an email - the ACLU truly has no shame...
If you look closely at the picture above, you will note that all the Marines pictured are bowing their heads. That's because they're praying.
This incident took place at a recent ceremony honoring the birthday of the corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms. "These are federal employees," says Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal property and on federal time. For them to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and we must nip this in the bud immediately."
When asked about the ACLU's charges, Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said (cleaned up a bit), "Screw the ACLU." GOD Bless Our Warriors, Send the ACLU to France.
Please send this to people you know so everyone will know how stupid the ACLU is Getting in trying to remove GOD from everything and every place in America. May God Bless America, One Nation Under GOD!
What's wrong with the picture? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING... AMEN!
Soldier's Prayer:
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen."
Prayer Request: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world.
Original Source Unknown
What a shame, Screw the ACLU
Posted by: Rightwing Guy | September 12, 2006 at 11:10 PM
ACLU Opposition to Marines Praying-Fiction!
Summary of the eRumor
The eRumor is accompanied by a picture with a group of Marines bowed in prayer. It quotes an ACLU spokesperson named Lucius Traveler as saying that they are government employees who are on government property and that such prayer needs to be stopped. The Truth This is false. The ACLU says it has not issued any opposition to military personnel praying and that there is no one named Lucius Traveler in their ranks.
We have not been able to find a "Colonel Jack Fessender" who is quoted in the eRumor as responding to the ACLU.
Last updated 12/24/03
truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/aclu-marines.htm
Posted by: OnTheElk | November 30, 2006 at 05:24 AM
I have to say that when I recieved the e-mail of the comments made about the Marines and thier employment status as apposed to thier rights to pray and to say that cause they are Government employees they don't have the right to pray cause it is an infringement of rights. Let me just say this, maybe if you are not the one who is out there with a gun manning a post then perhaps you should remember that those "Government Employees" are carrying a gun and standing a post so you have the right to oppose prayer and where they pray. If you never stopped to think about this in that manner maybe you should step off your high horse long enough to look and recognize no matter how you feel and how you express it, someone like those Marines, my fellow Army Soldier's and I, and the armed forces in whole are the ones who make it so you can. This is not a joke to me as a Soldier and will not be carried as such and I don't really believe your web site being bias to yourself and you telling me that it's fiction and remember all fiction is based on some in part with truth. Instead of doing this in a protected mode maybe you could not hide behind the web site and come out and say it to our faces. I am willing to bet that you will not get very far when you see the look of war and compassion all at the same time behind our eyes. If your gonna support us the do so if not just keep your mouth shut.
Posted by: Staff Sergeant Michael Renuard, United States Army | March 13, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Who is ACLU? Another puppet, another coward...just like UN, but on a smaller scale.
America, the land of the brave will obviously produce brave soldiers. I always pray for our brave army. Long live this great country of ours.
Posted by: FreeWorld Community | September 26, 2008 at 08:16 PM
The goverment is fucking a fundamentalist establishment. Perhaps maybe one or several of these soldiers are buddhist, muslim, or god forbid atheist! What if you don't pray? Is that not part of the american agenda? Pray at home all you want to, but it is fair to remove god from the government! Religion creates wars and segregates people and does not belong anywhere in the government or in the army or in any kind of workplace period.
Posted by: breton | September 29, 2008 at 09:33 PM
This is one of the aspects i dispize about the military. I am anti US Government right now and want to instill the CONSTITUTION back into America. Church should have no clause with state, and be taxed just like the rest of the people (if taxes are presented) On taxes though, they are UNCONSTITUTIONAL! We as americans have forgot why we have this country, and why we instilled it. We let the government tell us how to run our lives, while the CONSTITUTION states "We the People" which means you and I. We are the governors, congress, VOICE of America. Stop letting this country walk on your back and begin to break it, things like praying without the choice is an act of Communism and slavery. Be the right person and stop supporting the US Government and start helping in the cause of America.
Posted by: SPCINKOREA | November 15, 2008 at 08:15 PM
it is as easy as leaving the U.S.A. but no you communist bastards are willing to take the glory our kids offer and you are to chicken shit to offer.
Posted by: ron | April 26, 2009 at 04:30 PM
ron,
I have no idea what that means, but maybe somebody else can figure it out.
Posted by: BlogForFreedom | May 05, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Our entire country is in the process of being destroyed, nationalized and evolving to a socialist country. We sit back and watch the slow deterioration of our rights which will ultimately lead to armageddon. This is not the greatest country on earth it is a joke being financed by China. America is a second rate country.
Posted by: Jason | August 20, 2009 at 05:31 AM
Maybe u idiots need to remember who founded our country. Didn't u take history class moron our constitution was based on beliefs that directly related to God. Nobody forces anyone to pray and to tell people they cant pray for their troops is rediculous
Posted by: david | December 08, 2009 at 12:37 PM
There are no atheists in a fox hole
Posted by: Brian | January 26, 2011 at 07:39 AM
This is a hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/marines.asp
Posted by: Jim | July 13, 2011 at 12:31 PM
People this is a hoax. It never happened. Look up Lucius Traveler, ACLU and there are many sites saying he didn't even exist. Check snopes! It is one of many sites saying this a lie, and that both Traveler and Fessender don't exist.Stop passing things around that are lies, without bothering to check the facts.http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/marines.asp
Posted by: Jeanne Mayes | September 09, 2011 at 09:02 PM
Don't believe the lies of Snopes and the rest of the liberal media. I am real and I am running for President. FACT.
- Colonel Jack Fessender (Ret.)
http://answers.yahoo.com/activity?show=r6znu4h9aa
Posted by: Colonel Jack Fessender (Ret.) | January 17, 2012 at 11:17 AM
You may have won this time, Fessender, but this is only the beginning. Soon, Snopes and the ACLU will disprove the existence of conservatism itself, or my name isn't Lucius Traveler! FACT.
Posted by: Lucius Traveler | May 25, 2012 at 02:30 PM
Fessender! Traveler! Quit messing around and get back to stealing tacos for me!
-Bill Nussbaum, Commandant USMC & President of the ACLU
Posted by: Bill Nussbaum | November 25, 2012 at 12:06 PM