Everyone knows all about government-sponsored welfare for individuals. Many see and understand the horrible government-sponsored welfare for corporations. In both these cases, as with any government-sponsored welfare, it is a great injustice to both the recipients and the taxpayers who are forced to foot the bill. What many people may not realize is that there are also politically-driven organizations that are getting government-sponsored welfare as well.

Currently, as the law is structured, a private, political organization can use the proceeds of lawsuits against the government to continue further lawsuits. This process only encourages those organizations to use taxpayer funds, via lawsuits, as their primary method of funding.

Once this cycle is started, the organization cannot be stopped -- they can have absolutely no support of the citizens, yet the citizens are forced, through government lawsuits, to pay for and support the organization, no matter it's purpose or mission.

Such is the case with the ACLU. Their primary method of funding today is not via private citizens contributing to a cause they believe in, but by suing government for "damages," which are taken from taxpayers, and then used by the ACLU to sue government again.

This has the effect of completely insulating the ACLU from the government and it's citizens. All taxpayers of the United States are forced to fund this organization, whether you believe in it's purposes or not. And the ACLU is not the only organization to do this.

You can help stop this abuse of lawsuits. There is an online petition that is trying to raise support for a law, introduced by Congressman Hostettler. That change in the law will simply forbid organizations from collecting punitive damages from the government in civil rights cases regarding freedom of religion.

That's all. That makes sense. When someone sues the government, the taxpayers have to pay. If this bill passes, when someone sues the government for allegedly "establishing" religion, they simply cannot collect millions of taxpayer dollars in punitive fees.

If you have not signed this petition, please go sign it now.

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