Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act

Last week, Senator Brownback introduced the ?Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act? (S. 3696) in the Senate. Senator Brownback will chair a Constitution Subcommittee hearing on this bill next Wednesday (August 2) at 2:30pm in Dirksen 226.

Referenced is an an article related to the Great Falls, SC case that discusses the bully tactics (often by the ACLU) that the bill is intended to combat: ?At the council meeting last Monday, members forgot to say the prayer. Maybe their minds were on the $65,490 in legal fees Great Falls owes Wynne's lawyer. This is a back-breaking sum for the one-stoplight town of about 2,300, which has seen its population plummet since the last of its three mills closed in 1984. The fees amount to more than a quarter of the town's annual administrative budget. Also Monday, Wynne addressed the council and reminded its members that her lawyer would have waived all legal fees if the council had agreed to stop giving Christian prayers and not pursue its appeal to the 4th Circuit.? (Prayers provoke lawsuits, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8/21/2005)

Please encourage Senators to sign on as cosponsors to PERPA (S.3696).