Urgent: Immediate Supreme Court action needed

We’ve been denied.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has refused to hear our arguments in the two Ten Commandments cases we’ve been working on since September.

I urge you to help us as we go to the Supreme Court with the most generous tax-deductible online contribution you can possibly give. We must take action immediately!

Here’s what we’re up against:

Right now, the organization called ”Summum” (suing to force town
governments to display Summum’s alternative message – or ban the Ten
Commandments!) is about to submit another brief to the Supreme Court of the United States.

WE’VE GOT TO REPLY FORMALLY with our brief to the Supreme Court
BY MARCH 1.

You know what a monumental task it is to prepare a case for the Supreme
Court of the United States. And this case comes in the midst of an
already huge workload for our attorneys, legal and legislative teams,
and professional support staff.

But we have no choice. If we let this go, the Summum
ruling could easily lead to a ”Statue of Tyranny” being erected
adjacent to our Statue of Liberty – simply because government bodies
are now obligated to express all competing points of view!

THERE
IS NO TIME TO LOSE. Our reply brief is due to the Supreme Court March
1. I urge you to please help us with your immediate online gift.

Imagine the local VFW hall being forced to display anti-military
slogans. Imagine government offices all over our country – your town
hall, your post office – obligated to put up anti-American monuments.
It’s absurd.

And yet, this is what the Tenth Circuit has in effect said. Once a city accepts donated monuments … whether they:

• depict heroes from World War II,
• salute the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
• commemorate 9/11,
• or acknowledge the Ten Commandments …

… the city is compelled to accept monuments from other groups sending a counter-message.

This would be ”compelled speech,” and we will argue strongly
against it … if the Supreme Court of the United States will take the
case.

This week, I’ll be with our senior attorneys reviewing Summum’s brief
and working aggressively to research, write, and file our reply brief
before the extremely tight March 1 deadline.

The pressure is intense. And the financial challenges are great. Please give your best possible gift right away.

Thank you in advance!

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