It’s an odd thing.
We hear ceaselessly about the danger of legal costs anytime any governing body anywhere hints that it might stand up to anti-religious zealotry and defend its right to post the Ten Commandments or pray before meetings. (Yes, those are constitutional liberties, and no activist court can change that. With the right case, the current Supreme Court might even restore that commonsense understanding of the First Amendment.)
We are reminded again and again, for instance, that Hamilton County is inviting ever-so-dreadful legal expenses if it doesn’t start censoring and neutering the prayers offered at its meetings to “cleanse” them of references to Jesus Christ. Church-state separation and all that flapdoodle, you know.
Even when no governing body is involved in the religious expression, we hear the same argument: It’ll cost too much to defend it in court. (Remember the mind-numbing assault on student-made Bible verse banners at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School football games a few years back?)
Alas, fickle are the uses of the legal fee argument.