"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

The First Allahmendment

by Lee

Two days ago I blogged on the ACLU and their lawsuit to remove a cross from the Los Angeles County seal because it violated the separation of church and state.  Well, proving once again that they care nothing about the Constitution and everything about persecuting Christians, the ACLU has decided that Islam is to be protected.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the city of Omaha on behalf of a Muslim woman who says she was barred from accompanying her children to a city swimming pool because she was fully clothed.

The lawsuit filed in Lincoln federal court Wednesday says Lubna Hussein took her three children to the pool in June and August 2003 but was turned away at the gate after she told employees she could not wear a bathing suit.

Hussein is required by her religious beliefs to keep her body covered in public except for her face and hands.

She was told she could not be in the pool area in her street clothing, even though she saw other people in the area who were not wearing bathing suits, according to the lawsuit.

On one occasion, the lawsuit says, city workers told Hussein that her children could enter but that she would have to remain outside and observe them through a fence.

“The city cannot operate its pools in a way that discriminates,” said Amy Miller, legal director for ACLU Nebraska.

The full text of that last quote was, “The city cannot operate its pools in a way that discriminates against Muslims.  Discrimination against Christians or Jews is perfectly acceptable.  I mean, a pool banning a woman for wearing religious garb is a horrendous violation of her civil rights.  Of course, if she had been wearing a crucifix necklace over her hijab that would be a different story.”

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