August 2006
Monthly Archive
Sun 27 Aug 2006
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Washington, DC 20585
In the Matter of:
Application for Renewal and
Expansion of Recognition
of The Association for Biblical Higher
Education to accredit Bible Schools
National Advisory Committee on
Institutional Quality and Integrity
meeting December 4-6, 2006
Federal Reg Notice Vol 71 No. 142
July 26, 2006 – Page 42367, 2nd column
Item 1, Association for Biblical Higher
Education
JEFOUND AND SCOTT RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO THE REQUEST OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR BIBLICAL HIGHER EDUCATION TO RENEW AND EXPAND ITS ACCREDITATION AUTHORITY
Judicial Equality Foundation, Incorporated, a Florida non-profit corporation, (‘jefound”) and William Sumner Scott, a citizen of the United States, (“Scott”), submit their Opposition to the Application for Renewal and Expansion of Authority of The Association for Biblical Higher Education (the “Association”) to accredit Bible colleges and institutes by the United States, Department of Education, pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1985, 79 Stat. 1212, as amended, 20 U.S. C. A. § 1070, (the “HEA”) and Regulations at 34 CFR § 602, as follows:
JURISDICTION AND STANDING
1) Congress is authorized by the United States Constitution to adopt, and the HEA requires the Executive Branch to administer, laws and regulations to govern the provision of education, including the accreditation of public and private schools of higher education.
2) Jefound and Scott have standing to submit this Opposition as members of the public.
COUNT I
BIBLE ACCREDITATION FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH §602.16(a)(1)(vii)
3) The Bible is claimed by the Association to be either divinely inspired or the actual work of God without attempt of proof or empirical investigation of that claim.
4) The Association requires each of its accredited schools to affirm as follows:[1]
ABHE (sic the Association) Tenets of Faith
According to the Constitution of the Association for Biblical Higher Education, the following statement of faith is to be subscribed to annually by each member institution through the signatures of the president or of a board official.
1. We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious death and atonement through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal and visible return in power and glory.
4. We believe that man was created in the image of God, and that he was tempted by Satan and fell, and that, because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary for salvation.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, and by Whom the Church is empowered to carry out Christ’s great commission.
6. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto the resurrection of life and those who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
5) To claim the existence of a God, heaven and hell, and the conduct to get to those locations exists exclusively for their followers is contrary to the competing beliefs expressed in the Torah, Qur’an, and other religious texts. How can the claim of exclusive knowledge and ability to know God by the Association members be classified education without proof that the Association and its member schools are correct?
6) The Bible teaches its followers that they have a right to stone anyone to death who is aware and rejects their tenets or who attempts to change their beliefs.[2]
7) The Bible has verses that condone unprovoked violence toward neighbors or other nationalities who do not believe as they do. These same or similar intolerant versus are taught to the followers of the Torah and the Qur’an. Rather than teach that no fewer than two out of three of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are wrong, the Association promotes the concept that only their member schools that follow the Bible can be right.
COUNT II
THE ASSOCIATION FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH §602.16(a)(1)(viii)
8) The Association has no criteria or announced purpose to teach the dangers of the hate promoted by those who follow the teachings of the Bible literally.[3]
9) The Association has no criteria or announced purpose to cause the institutions it accredits to design course and education materials that teach that religious violence and abuse practiced by the three great religions of Abraham use the same source materials as the Bible, including the verses that justify death to non-believers. Nor do they advocate the elimination of hate speech and violence from the Bible or from the actions of those who claim the Bible is the word of God. Followers of the Bible do not know who among them will commit the next act of violence or abuse in the name of their God. They permit the same verses that advocate violence and abuse to be taught to all of the students in the institutions they accredit.
10) Bible Schools begin with the premise that the Bible is good and should be followed as the work of God. This is without demonstrated value to the public. The need for a safe environment has moved beyond the arcane course structure and attempt to teach that the Bible is a valid source of how one should behave today. The presentation of the Bible as the word of God to the followers of Christianity creates the mistaken belief in some of those taught that they must take the words literally to the detriment of themselves and the general public.[4]
11) The Association has not required courses in religious history or the content of holy books that are critical of the Bible. Their presentations fail to have the fair and balanced approach to question the beliefs presented that one would expect of higher education.
COUNT III
APPROVAL OF ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION IN VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
12) The Association is engaged in the promotion of the study of the Bible used by Christians. The application to the Secretary for accreditation rights seeks approval of the Association’s religious beliefs and gives appearance of credibility that violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibits the establishment of Religion by the Federal government because (i) the study of the Bible has no secular purpose, (ii) to accredit Bible schools is to advance Christianity by government action, and (iii) to supervise the accreditation of Bible schools is excessive entanglement of church and state. Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 (1971).
ARGUMENT
Religious motivated war has existed continuously since the beginning of recorded history and is waged today. If civilization is to survive the proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction, religious educators must eliminate the training they provide to their followers that leads to violence and other abuse.
Secular and religious theorists approach epistemology in different ways, the former emphasizing an observational or a posteriori approach, and the latter a dogmatic or a priori approach. Religious texts assert many claims that cannot be proved or disproved by observation and continue to assert claims that have, in fact, been disproved by observation.
In 1613, Father Lorini, speaking on behalf of the Christian faith, said that Copernican doctrine that the Sun is the center of the universe violated interpretation of the Bible that places Earth at the center. Beginning in 1600, Galileo published works and made speeches to urge the Sun is the center of the universe. In 1609, he invented a telescope that proved the Copernican theory correct. In 1633, Galileo was convicted and sentenced for teaching that the Earth revolves around the Sun. His religious inquisitors refused to look through his telescope. The Christian Church has apologized for this wrongful conviction, but has made no changes to the Bible.
Contrast the religious analysis method with the scientific treatment of Newton’s Law of Gravity, which had been accepted truth for over 220 years. It is now believed to be wrong (or at least incomplete) by scientists as a result of the evaluation Einstein’s theory of relativity published in 1915. Newton’s Law has been revised. An approach to instruction that does not include a method to fix errors in its texts is dangerous to society. Witness the refusal to timely amend the United States Constitution to eliminate slavery that led to civil war. The Bible has never been amended to eliminate its hateful and incorrect passages.
The study of the Bible is to study myth and unsubstantiated theory. That could be acceptable if it were labeled as such. But the Association and its members take the study to be the word of a higher power they choose to call God who directs how they behave and how they treat others. The Bible teaches hatred and intolerance. Those teachings should be met with strong opposition from educators. To continue to neglect to do so will expose the United States to continue to be involved in religious based conflicts throughout the world. The Association and its members must answer the question, “If the Bible is the word of God or divinely inspired, why the inclusion of misstatements of fact and the obligation of its followers to stone non-believers to death.” If peace is to be achieved by non-violent means, intolerant religious texts, beliefs and practices, such as those contained in the Bible, must be renounced, not merely ignored.
Virgil Hawkins, a Black American Citizen, first applied to the University of Florida Law School in 1949. The School was found to have no basis to deny Mr. Hawkins admission other than the color of his skin. In a 1955 ruling, to approve the denial of admission to Mr. Hawkins, Chief Justice Glenn Terrell of the Florida Supreme Court, said:
“. . . when God created man, he allotted each race to his own continent according to color, Europe to the white man, Asia to the yellow man, Africa to the black man, and America to the red man, but we are now advised that God’s plan was in error and must be reversed . . .”.[5]
Although our society intends to eliminate the prejudice directed toward Black Americans, little has been done to correct the Bible teachings that underpin that hate.
If God allocated America to the Redman, why was this White Judge granted authority to pronounce justice? It took Virgil Hawkins from 1949 until 1977 to be admitted to practice law because of White America’s perceived Bible authority to discriminate. The Bible is the same today as when it was used to deny rights to Mr. Hawkins. It is the same book the Association continues to promote as the divinely inspired word of God.
The Tenets of the Association are quoted in Count I, paragraph 3 above. They are unsustainable. No educational system should promote this lunacy, much less an accreditation process that is approved by the United States government.
One of those Tenets separates people as saved and lost with definitions of who qualifies and the consequences for each from the Bible. Homosexual conduct is condemned to the lost. This is may not be overcome by the good works homosexuals may accomplish. Questions of the propriety of homosexual conduct should be left to every individual without opinion from unqualified organized religious people who cite the Bible as the authority for their opinion. Societal questions related to the validity and propriety of homosexual and all other conduct must be left to government with the advice of selected professionals such as those in the medical and psychological disciplines. Each individual has a right to express their opinion but, in a civilized society, no individual or organized group may promote discrimination against any other person or group based upon their interpretation of subversive materials, such as the baseless conclusions announced in the Bible.
The prior grant of recognition by the Department of Education to the Association was, and the renewal and expansion of that recognition would be, a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution that forbids establishment of religion by the United States government. To condone is to establish.
The concept to stone non-believers to death expressed in Deuteronomy 13:6-9 was invented prior to man’s ability to write. Judaism first announced the concept in writing in the Torah. The Christians adopted that writing as their own to justify the murder by Constantine, the Great, beginning in 325 A.D., and other Christian rulers after him, of all people who did not adopt the Nicene Creed. The Islamists have perfected the “death to infidels” concept by couching the same words as the defense of Islam throughout their writings that, like the Torah and the Bible, advocate massacre, pillage, enslavement, and deportation (“MPED”).
WHEREFORE, the Advisory Committee is requested to recommend to the Secretary that the Petition to Renew and Expand the Authority of The Association for Biblical Higher Education be DENIED.
We request the opportunity to present testimony in support of this Opposition.
JUDICIAL EQUALITY FOUNDATION, INC.
/s/ William S. Scott
By: William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Executive Director
Judicial Equality Foundation, Inc.
/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J. D.
1. http://abhe.gospelcom.net/tenets.htm
2. Deuteronomy 13:6-9: “If your very own brother, or your son, or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’ (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the people around , whether near or far, from the one end of the land to the other) do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death.” The New International Version, The Holy Bible, Zondervan Corporation, 1988, 13:6-11, page 185.
3. Christian criminals who commit their violent acts and abuse in the name of God use the Bible as their source of divine guidance. They rarely display remorse. Paul Hill, the Christian who killed an abortion doctor not only had no remorse, he affirmatively said he did not know why more people were not killing abortion doctors as he had done. A group of same thinking Christians held a candle light vigil for him every night outside the prison for the two week period prior to his execution.
4. The Church of Christ, Scientist, followers are permitted to refuse medical treatment in spite of the knowledge that one or more of them have died from a disease the medical profession could have easily cured. See Hermanson v State, 604 So. 2d 775 (Fla 1992) for a child who died in bed of infant diabetes while the parents and science practitioner prayed.
5. State ex rel. Hawkins v. Board of Control, 83 So. 2d 20, 31 (Fla. 1955)
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
On this 16th day of August, 2006, the undersigned certifies that a copy of the above Opposition of jefound.org and Scott to the Application of the Association of Biblical Higher Education Application for Renewal and Expansion was sent by email to: Robin.Greathouse@ed.gov and the original was by first class mail, postage prepaid to: Ms. Robin Greathouse at U. S. Department of Education, Room 7105, MS 8509, 1990 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006 and a copy by the same methods to: Dr. Larry McKinney lmckinney@abhe.org and to Dr. Larry McKinney, Executive Director, The Association for Biblical Higher Education 5575 S. Semoran Blvd., Suite 26, Orlando, FL 32822-1781.
/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Judicial Equality Foundation, Inc.
P. O. Box 380341
Miami, FL 33238
wss@jefound.org
Sat 26 Aug 2006
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Washington, DC 20585
In the Matter of:
Application for Renewal of
The Association for Clinical Pastoral
Education, Inc. to accredit clinical
pastoral education (CPE) and
supervisory programs
National Advisory Committee on
Institutional Quality and Integrity
meeting December 4-6, 2006
Federal Reg Notice Vol 71 No. 142
July 26, 2006 – Page 42368, 1st column
Item 5, Association for Clinical Pastoral
Education, Inc.
JEFOUND AND SCOTT RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO THE REQUEST OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION, INC. TO RENEW ITS ACCREDITATION AUTHORITY
Judicial Equality Foundation, Incorporated, a Florida non-profit corporation, (‘jefound”) and William Sumner Scott, a citizen of the United States, (“Scott”), submit their Opposition to the Application for Renewal of Authority of The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. (the “Association”) to accredit clinical pastoral education by the United States, Department of Education, pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1985, 79 Stat. 1212, as amended, 20 U.S. C. A. § 1070, (the “HEA”) and Regulations at 34 CFR § 602, as follows:
JURISDICTION AND STANDING
1) Congress is authorized by the United States Constitution to adopt, and the HEA requires the Executive Branch to administer, laws and regulations to govern the provision of education, including the accreditation of public and private schools of higher education.
2) Jefound and Scott have standing to submit this Opposition as members of the public.
COUNT I
ASSOCIATION FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH §602.16(a)(1)(vii) and (viii)
3) The Association members claim the existence of God without attempt of proof or empirical investigation of that claim.
4) The Association teaches its members to teach their students to appeal to higher power.
5) The Association requires that an applicant must usually have completed at least one year of theological school to enroll in clinical pastoral education (“CPE”) and such other requirements or education and experience as a specific Association member CPE center may require.
6) The Association requires that an applicant complete several units of CPE, demonstrated a readiness to utilize Supervisory CPE, usually has a theological degree, and several years of pastoral experience prior to entry to Supervisory CPE training.
7) The Association has not required study of religious history or holy books to explain that two or more of the Torah, Bible and Qur’an are wrong to claim to be the only true word of God.
8) The Association teachings fail to have the fair and balanced approach to question the beliefs presented that one would expect of higher education.
9) The Association member’s courses and methods lack sufficient validity to be claimed to be education in any form and, therefore, are not proper subjects for accreditation.
COUNT II
APPROVAL OF ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION IN VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
10) The Association is engaged in the promotion of the beliefs of all organized religious faiths. The application to the Secretary for accreditation rights seeks approval of the Association’s religious beliefs and gives appearance of credibility that violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibits the establishment of Religion by the Federal government because (i) the practice of faith healing has no secular purpose, (ii) to accredit pastoral education is to advance organized religion by government action, and (iii) to supervise the accreditation of pastoral education is excessive entanglement of church and state. Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 (1971).
COUNT III
CLAIMS OF EXCLUSIVE ABILITY TO REACH GOD AND HEAVEN ADVOCATED BY THE ASSOCIATION LEAD TO WAR
11) The Association member’s courses and methods teach that only their denomination or sect prayers will reach God’s ears and result in healing or the salvation necessary to reach heaven after death. This exclusivity in teaching creates a separation of people that leads to murder, mayhem, and abuse by Association members against their followers and non-believers.
ARGUMENT
Secular and religious theorists approach epistemology in different ways, the former emphasizing an observational or a posteriori approach, and the latter a dogmatic or a priori approach. Religious texts and practitioners assert many claims that cannot be proved or disproved by observation. They also make claims which have been disproved by observation.[1]
There is no evidence that pastoral intervention has any benefit in excess of positive thinking that could not have been generated by the infirmed, or his family, or medical or psychology professionals, or any other concerned persons.
Many, if not all, members of the Association believe their particular denomination or sect is the only true prayer and other intervention medium to reach God.[2] The practices the Association promotes to its members expose the member’s followers to damage. For example, The Church of Christ, Scientist, followers are urged to rely solely on the faith healing methods advocated by the Association. They are legally permitted to refuse medical treatment in spite of the knowledge that one or more of them have died from a disease the medical profession could have easily cured. See Hermanson v State, 604 So. 2d 775 (Fla 1992) for a child who died in bed of infant diabetes while the parents and clinical pastoral practitioner prayed.
The Association promotes the belief that an appeal to a higher power they call God or Allah will aid in recovery from illness and comfort the survivors after the death of a loved one. Association beliefs have been corrupted by some who teach that to die in defense of their religion will take them to a higher heaven than anyone else. The Association has no evidence of the existence of a heaven or a hell or how one gets to either location.
Association beliefs are further corrupted by the acceptance of the text materials that urge the death of non-believers who proselytize or who refuse to pay the non-believer tax.[3] Those who commit suicide in defense of their religion or are put to death for the murder of infidels are called martyrs in their religious parlance. The Association requests the Department of Education to accredit and otherwise approve the religious beliefs, text materials and practices that include the advocacy of these subversive passages and actions.
Although Congress has granted the authority to the Food and Drug Administration to regulate patent medicine and the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate fraudulent presentations to raise money, nether they nor any other government agency has been given the power to eliminate the unsubstantiated claims made by the Association and its members to raise money from the afflicted and their families including, but not limited to, the claim that donations will insure a place in heaven. The assertion that a deceased loved one rests in heaven has no factual basis. Although assurance of this peaceful place in heaven has value to alleviate the grief of the survivors, it is overshadowed by the murder and mayhem by the followers of the members of the Association that are committed to gain their martyrdom status and higher place in heaven.
The Association claims that the First Amendment intended to protect individual religious thought extends to their organized fraudulent business practices. The misappropriation of the individual’s First Amendment protection of religious freedom must not be allowed to morph into United States government approval of organized religion’s faith healing hoax under the guise of accredited education. The conflicting claims of various organized religious businesses are best evaluated in a rational unbiased educational setting rather than presented unchallenged to the public. If an analysis of the value of the belief in God and heaven is to be made, it should be made by psychology departments based upon an observational or a posteriori approach.
Although the Association limits its activities to the United States, its members practice the same beliefs throughout the World. The Association is open to all organized religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Murder to further those organized religions’ beliefs that were proven by the confession or eyewitness accounts have included an abortion doctor,[4] movie producer,[5] judge,[6] and Jewish activitist.[7] Anarchy in defense of the belief in God the Association teaches exists was demonstrated by the protests against America and the deaths in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan in response to twelve Danish cartoons that depicted Muhammad, the Islamist messiah.[8]
Organized religiously motivated violence has been tolerated because those who profit from war are more powerful than those who work for peace. The advent of nuclear weapons combined with the irrational thought processes of organized religious leaders and their followers have forced the examination of the effect of religious beliefs upon civilization. Under this scrutiny, the unproved beliefs promoted by the Association and its members will not stand muster. By a trace of the evolution of religious beliefs, one can prove that organized religion is man made and forced upon the masses by government sanctions, violence, and intimidation.[9]
Other than for historical value, no agency of the Federal government, particularly one devoted to formal education, may condone any form of religious education or practice, particularly faith healing, because it is nonsense that leads to strife. The Association member teachings, to the extent they advocate violence, are subversive. The First Amendment that forbids the establishment of any religion by the government was added to the United States Constitution in recognition of these facts.
The prior grant by the United States Department of Education of the right to the Association to accredit members to provide faith healing was, and the renewal of that accreditation right would be, an establishment of religion in violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 (1971).
WHEREFORE, the Advisory Committee is requested to recommend to the Secretary that the Petition to renew the authority of The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., to accredit its member programs, be DENIED.
We request the opportunity to present testimony in support of this Opposition.
JUDICIAL EQUALITY FOUNDATION, INC.
/s/ William S. Scott
By: William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Executive Director
Judicial Equality Foundation, Inc.
/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J. D.
1. In 1616 Galileo found that Copernicus was correct to say that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The Cardinals of the Inquisition met on 24 February 1616 and took evidence from theological experts. They condemned the teachings of Copernicus and conveyed their decision to Galileo who had not been personally involved in the alleged trial. In 1633, without any opportunity to demonstrate his telescope to prove the Copernicus theory was correct, the Church convicted Galileo of breach of the 1616 order and condemned him to life in prison.
2. Dave Anderson, The Infidels, Authorhouse, 2005, p 212.
3. See Deuteronomy 13:6-9 : “If your very own brother, or your son, or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’ (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the people around , whether near or far, from the one end of the land to the other) do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death.” The New International Version, The Holy Bible, Zondervan Corporation, 1988, 13:6-11, page 185 and the Qur’an, Sura 9:29 Fight (sic kill) those who believe not in Allah (sic Islam) nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (sic Muhammad), nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the poll tax with willing submission and feel themselves subdued. The Qur’an, Al Arqam Dawa Center, Brooklyn, NY, 2005.
4. Dr. John Britton and his bodyguard, James Barrett were murdered on July 29, 1994, by the Rev. Paul Jennings Hill, a Presbyterian minister, because the Doctor performed legal medical procedures that were believed to violate Association Christian member religious teachings that God forbids abortion.
5. Theo van Gogh was murdered on November 2, 2004, by Mohammed Bouyeri to defend Association Islamist religious teachings from a movie legally written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and produced by van Gogh titled Submission that violates Islamist beliefs that God permits male abusive treatment of woman.
6. Judge Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin was murdered in Ankara, Turkey, on May 17, 2006, by Alpaslan Aslan, a lawyer, to defend Association Islamist religious beliefs that God requires Islamist woman to wear a headscarf.
7. Pamela Waechter was murdered on July 28, 2006 by Naveed Afzal Haq, an American Islamist, at the offices of the Jewish Federation, Seattle, Washington, to further Association religious beliefs that Islam is superior to Judaism and that Islam is mistreated by the American government’s support of Israel.
8. Two protesters of the cartoons were killed and 13 others injured, when Afghan police fired on February 6, 2006, on about 2,000 protesters who tried to force entry to the Bagram Airbase, a U.S. base north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
9. Sam Harris, End of Faith, W. W. Norton, 2005, page 155, notes 9 and 10.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
On this 22nd day of August, 2006, the undersigned certifies that a copy of the above Opposition of jefound.org and Scott to the Renewal of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. to accredit clinical pastoral education and supervisory programs was sent by email to: Robin.Greathouse@ed.gov and the original was by first class mail, postage prepaid to: Ms. Robin Greathouse at U. S. Department of Education, Room 7105, MS 8509, 1990 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006 and a copy by the same methods to: teresa@acpe.edu and a printed copy to: Teresa Snorton, Executive Director, The Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., 1549 Clairmont Road, Suite 103, Decatur, GA 30033-4611
/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Judicial Equality Foundation, Inc.
P. O. Box 380341
Miami, FL 33238
wss@jefound.org
Thu 17 Aug 2006
JUDICIAL EQUALITY FOUNDATION, INC.
P. O. Box 380341
Miami, FL 33238
wss@jefound.org
August 15, 2006
Mayor John Mazziotti
City of Palm Bay - City Hall
120 Malabar Road
Palm Bay, FL 32907
Re: ACLU threat to sue – Ordinance Nos. 2006-80 and 2006-81
Dear Mayor Mazziotti,
People in this country illegally are likely to disrespect other laws. They need medical treatment and drive automobiles without valid driver license or insurance. Your City has every right to impose laws to fulfill your obligation to keep your citizens free from harm. Your obligation to provide police, fire and other protection to all people within your boundaries does not extend to illegal immigrants.
The Weil Firm claimed constituents have no client with standing to bring their claimed action against the City of Palm Bay for allegedly infringing on Federal turf. You might ask the ACLU and the others who is their client. Perhaps the case will begin when the City penalizes its first local business. Keep us abreast of what happens.
Very truly yours,
/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Executive Director
WSS:lf
cc: Howard Simon, Esquire, ACLU, Miami, Florida
David J. Healey, Esquire, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, New York
Foster Maer, Esquire, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
Cheryl Little, Esquire, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Pat Woodard, Deputy Mayor
Ed Grier, Andy Anderson,. Donna Brooks, Palm Bay City Council Members
Nick Tsamoutales, Esquire, Palm Bay City Attorney
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On topic supplement for JEfound readers: Attrition Through Enforcement or Human Tsunami
Fri 11 Aug 2006
JUDICIAL EQUALITY FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED
P. O. Box 380341
Miami, FL 33238
wss@jefound.org
August 11, 2006
Via Mail & facsimile (608) 262-3985
President Kevin P. Reilly .
University of Wisconsin System
Via U. S. Mail & facsimile (608) 263-3487
Patricia A. Brady, Esq.
Office of the General Counsel
University of Wisconsin System
Via U. S. Mail & email to
jerlenba@uwsuper.edu
Chancellor Julius E. Erlenbach
University of Wisconsin – Superior
Via U. S. Mail & email to
jewiley@bascom.wisc.edu
Chancellor John D. Wiley
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Re: Exclusion of Subversive Groups from Campus
Dear Campus Leaders,
An Inside Higher Education news article published this morning made us aware of a letter sent to you by the Alliance Defense Fund on August 4, 2006, to assert that the denial of admission to full recognition status had wrongfully been made against InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Campus Crusade for Christ, University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation, United Response, Knights of Columbus, Chi Alpha, Christian Legal Society, and New College Madison. This letter is to urge that none of these groups be granted permission to remain on campus or receive recognition or public money.
We object because these groups preach the Torah or the Holy Bible to their followers. That dogma urges violence against those who do not share their beliefs, see particularly Deuteronomy 13:6-11. Groups that advocate violence to others are subversive and should not be permitted to exist, much less claim protection of the First Amendment.
Very truly yours,
/s/ William S. Scott
William Sumner Scott, J.D.
Executive Director
WSS:lf