Amazing Thomas More Law Center

Do not forsake those fighting for our rights
The Amazing work of
Thomas More Law Center
in 2009
We praise God for you!
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• Defending Marine LtCol Jeffrey Chessani. The Law Center confronted the immense power of the federal government and Congressman John Murtha to defend LtCol Jeffrey Chessani. LtCol Chessani was made a political scapegoat and criminally charged for the legitimate combat action taken by four of his Marines in Haditha, Iraq on November 19, 2005. We succeeded in getting the charges dismissed. We won the government appeal of that dismissal. Then, we defended Chessani before a Board of Inquiry which found him not guilty of any misconduct and allowed him to retire at his current rank.

• Defending a Christmas Nativity Display. We filed a lawsuit to restore a Nativity display that had been privately maintained on a public median during Christmas for the past 63 years. The display was ordered removed by the Macomb County, Michigan Road Commission after they received a threatening letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist organization.

• Defending Christmas Religious Music at School’s Winter Concert. We filed a lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s Maplewood – South Orange School District policy prohibiting the playing of Christmas religious music (even instrumentals without words) during their winter concert. After years of playing such music, the School District stopped all religious music from being played at the concert because one parent complained. We are now in the appellate process after the lower court dismissed the case.

• Challenging AIG and the Federal Reserve. We filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Federal Government’s $150 billion bailout of AIG. The basis of the lawsuit is that AIG owns a subsidiary that promotes Sharia Law — the body of Islamic law based on the Koran that calls for the murder of Christians and Jews.

• Challenging Janet Napolitano and the Dept. of Homeland Security. We filed a federal lawsuit against Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security over their publication of a nine page intelligence Assessment. The Assessment targeted Americans who oppose abortion, same–sex marriage, restrictions on firearms ownership, and veterans returning home from Iraq, as right wing extremists and potential terrorists.

• Defending a Teacher’s Right to Display Patriotic Slogans. We filed a lawsuit on behalf of high school teacher Brad Johnson who was ordered to remove several banners from his classroom that contained historical slogans such as “In God We Trust,” “One Nation under God,” and the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. California school officials told Johnson his banners promoted an impermissible “Judeo/Christian” viewpoint and would make Muslims uncomfortable. He has been displaying the banners for the past 20 years without a single complaint.

• Fighting the Radical Homosexual Agenda. We filed a lawsuit on behalf of Crystal Dixon, an African American who was fired by the University of Toledo for writing an opinion piece in the local newspaper in which she expressed opposition to those who equated homosexual issues with the civil rights struggles of African Americans.

For the past several years, we have been fighting attempts by radical homosexual groups to change the definition of marriage. The Law Center drafted Michigan’s constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. And our West Coast Director played an instrumental roll in the passage of California’s Marriage Amendment, Proposition 8.

• Fighting for Pro-life Advocates. The Law Center has filed several lawsuits defending the rights of pro-life activists and organizations to express their pro-life messages in the public square. These efforts include defending the right of public school students to wear pro-life t-shirts to school. Moreover, the Law Center is leading a national effort to enact state constitutional Human Life Amendments in order to mount a direct challenge to the central holding of Roe v.Wade. We drafted state personhood amendments for Georgia, Oregon, and Montana. We also assisted Michigan and Colorado pro-life activists with their state personhood amendments.

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