and the

PUBLIC EXPRESSION OF RELIGION ACT

OF 2005, H.R. 2679 (PERA)

American Legion Resolution 326 was adopted at the 2004 American Legion National Convention.

Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1988, to end the authority of judges to award taxpayerpaid
attorney fees to the ACLU, or other litigants, in cases brought under the
Establishment Clause against the Boy Scouts, or the public display of the Ten
Commandments or other symbols of our American religious history, including
veterans memorials, as in the despicable Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial
Case.

The Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005, H.R. 2679 (PERA)

introduced by Rep. John Hostettler (R-lnd.), is pending before the Judiciary
Committee.

H.R. 2679 (PERA) when enacted into law, will do everything The American

Legion asks for in Resolution 326: It will stop the ACLU from receiving
literally millions of dollars in taxpayer-paid attorney fee awards ordered
by judges in "Establishment Clause'' cases. H.R. 2679 will not affect any
other kind of civil rights cases.

We Legionnaires can make this happen. Please call or write your
Congressional representative and Senators to voice your support for passage of
H.R. 2679. Once Americans know there is a solution to stopping frivolous legal
attacks on our values, religious icons, and veterans' memorials, they too will
flock to support this legislation.

ReesLloyd@aol.com; or call (951) 849-8676.