On Monday, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) sent a letter to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles calling upon it to ban unlawful discrimination on its property... After his unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid mobilized Christian Right voters, televangelist Pat Robertson channeled his campaign’s energy into forming two influential right-wing organizations. One was the voter mobilization powerhouse the Christian Coalition of America; the other was the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). Make no mistake, the similarity of the American Center for Law and Justice’s name and acronym - ACLJ - to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is no accident. Robertson declared that he founded the group to “stop the ACLU in court.” The group claims that “activist judges” and liberal attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Department of Justice have made the judicial branch antagonistic to the rights of Christians, purporting to serve supposedly persecuted Christians by representing them in the courtroom, drafting proposed laws, and promoting a right-wing interpretation of the Constitution. In a 2011 broadcast of the 700 Club, Robertson declared that God told him directly that the ACLJ “will be needed as never before. politicalresearch.org/2012/11/05/the-legal-arm-of-the-christian-right-inside-the-american-center-for-law-and-justice/
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:08:43 +0000
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