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Dear Friend,

Your action is needed on a bill introduced by Rep. John Hostettler (R-Indiana) titled the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA) (H.R. 2679).

PERA will prevent groups like the ACLU from using the legal system in a manner that extorts money from state and local governments and inhibits their constitutional actions.

Federal law currently allows parties to sue state and local governments claiming their individual rights were violated, and then demand attorney fees if they win. The ACLU and other groups have been using these rules to threaten public officials in both their public and individual capacities, with lawsuits if the officials dare to violate the ACLU's bizarre interpretation of the so-called separation of church and state.

The very threat of litigation and potential attorney fees often forces states and localities to cave in to demands to remove even the smallest religious references on public properties. Examples include tearing down veterans' memorials with religious symbols, removing the Ten Commandments from public buildings, booting the Boy Scouts off public property, and blotting out crosses from official county seals.

PERA amends federal law to prevent the awarding of attorney fees to prevailing plaintiffs in these cases and thus levels the playing field against groups such as the ACLU, which has won millions of dollars in attorney fees by extorting state and local governments into suppressing religious speech and free exercise of religion.

Please contact your representative using the convenient zip code box at your right and ask him or her to support PERA (H.R. 2679)!

Thank you.

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Sincerely,

The Legislation Department
Concerned Women for America

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