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21 minutes ago, Yowm said:

Meethinks weee've beeeen veeseeted by an ACLU TROLL

I thought the ACLU were Trolls.

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2 hours ago, Tea Ess said:

I love the ACLU. Please check out their organization:

https://www.aclu.org/defending-our-rights/court-battles

The ACLU was started by a Communist named Roger Baldwin with ties to Stalin.  http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/04/the-aclu’s-untold-stalinist-heritage/

The ACLU is really nothing more than the Anti Christian Litigation Unit.  They are unAmerican and really have no place in American society. 

 

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Revealing Facts about the ACLU

Stated Goals

The ACLU's founder, Roger Baldwin, stated: "We are for SOCIALISM, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... We seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the SOLE CONTROL of those who produce wealth. COMMUNISM is the goal." (Source: Trial and Error, by Geo. Grant)

Following are some of the stated goals of the ACLU, from its own published Policy Issues:

  • the legalization of prostitution (Policy 211);

  • the defense of all pornography, including CHILD PORN, as "free speech" (Policy 4);

  • the decriminalization and legalization of all drugs (Policy 210);

  • the promotion of homosexuality (Policy 264);

  • the opposition of rating of music and movies (Policy 18);

  • opposition against parental consent of minors seeking abortion (Policy 262);

  • opposition of informed consent preceding abortion procedures (Policy 263);

  • opposition of spousal consent preceding abortion (Policy 262);

  • opposition of parental choice in children's education (Policy 80)

-- not to mention the defense and promotion of euthanasia, polygamy, government control of church institutions, gun control, tax-funded abortion, birth limitation, etc. (Policies 263, 133, 402, 47, 261, 323, 271, 91, 85).

http://dianedew.com/aclu.htm

 

The fact is that the ACLU is an abominable, contemptible,  immoral, unChristian, anti-Christian, and anti-American organization.  It promotes sin and is the enemy of the family which is the bedrock of our society and is the first institution that God ordained.   

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The ACLU actually does take cases defending Christians, along with LGBT people, Muslims, and others. The Diane Dew website looks super sketchy and biased. The ACLU doesn't defend child porn, it opposes censorship. It would be like me saying you defend mass shootings because you oppose gun control. Here's an example of the ACLU defending religious freedom for Christians: 

"DES MOINES--The Iowa Civil Liberties Union today announced that it is publicly supporting the Christian students who recently filed a lawsuit against the Davenport Schools asserting the right to distribute religious literature during non-instructional time.

"The school's policy against the distribution of religious literature outside of class is clearly wrong,"" said Ben Stone, Executive Director of the ICLU. ""Not only does the policy violate the students' right to freely exercise their religious beliefs, but it also infringes on their free speech rights," he said. 

The case, brought by Davenport students Sasha and Jaron Dean and Becky Swope, was filed in federal court on May 31, 2002. The ICLU said it plans to file a "friend-of the-court" brief in support of the Christian students. 

According to the ICLU, the literature ban could be an example of poorly informed school officials acting out of ignorance. "Once in a while, we hear of schools taking away a kid's Bible at school or not letting students say grace before lunch,"" Stone said. ""Such restrictions are dead wrong, and are usually stopped rather quickly once the school receives some instruction on constitutional law. Let's hope the Davenport schools change their policy without further litigation,"" said Stone. 

Stone noted that ICLU's position in this case is perfectly consistent with its recent litigation to prevent another local school from having students sing "The Lord's Prayer" during graduation. 

"The First Amendment says the government can't restrict the right of people to practice their personal religious beliefs, while at the same time it forbids the government from endorsing religious beliefs, especially in a school setting,"" said Stone."

 

American society is all about personal freedom, which the ACLU is a proponent of, though it admittedly has historically had a different take on the second amendment than many of you here. 

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The ACLU is always on the other side from where believers stand.  I could never support them in any way.

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1 hour ago, shiloh357 said:

The fact is that the ACLU is an abominable, contemptible,  immoral, unChristian, anti-Christian, and anti-American organization.  It promotes sin and is the enemy of the family which is the bedrock of our society and is the first institution that God ordained.   

Amen.

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Just now, Yowm said:

 

I just wonder after Shiloh's list what is left to defend?

Maybe Shiloh's list shouldn't be taken as 100% unbiased truth without a bit of fact checking? 

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2 minutes ago, Yowm said:

The policy numbers are listed, can you refute them?

From the American Civil Union of Arizona: 

:Tough Questions about ACLU

Positions 1. Why do you defend Nazis and the Klan? The ACLU’s client is the Bill of Rights, not any particular person or group. We defend its principles – basic rights of citizens – whenever these are threatened. We do not believe that you can pick and choose when to uphold rights. If a right can be taken away from one person, it can be taken away from anyone. When you deny a right to someone with whom you disagree, you pave the way for that right to be denied to yourself or someone whom you strongly support. For example, the principle by which the Ku Klux Klan has the right to march is the same one that allows civil rights activists to march against racism.

2. You’re all a bunch of liberals, aren’t you? The ACLU is a nonpartisan group. We have defended and worked with people all across the political spectrum, from Rev. Jerry Falwell and Oliver North to radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Republican member of Congress Bob Barr. The ACLU strongly supports women’s right to choose abortion, yet we have also assisted anti-abortion activists when police used excessive force in arresting them. The ACLU has won support from women’s groups for our stand on women’s rights, but has angered some feminists for our First Amendment stand on pornography.

3. Why does the ACLU support cross burning? The ACLU condemns all forms of racism. However, the ACLU does believe that in some specific cases, the First Amendment protects the burning of a cross. People have the right to be bigots and to make extreme, symbolic statements of their bigotry. Burning a cross on one’s own lawn in the middle of the day without making specific threats against anybody is an example of this. That’s why the ACLU opposes laws that say any and all instances of cross burning are illegal. Such laws are too broad and have the result of preventing people from exercising their rights to free speech. As an answer to racist speech, the ACLU advocates more speech directed against racism, not the suppression of speech.

4. Why does the ACLU support pornography? Why are you in favor of child porn? The ACLU does not support pornography. But we do oppose virtually all forms of censorship. Possessing books or films should not make one a criminal. Once society starts censoring “bad” ideas, it becomes very difficult to draw the line. Your idea of what is offensive may be a lot different from your neighbor’s. In fact, the ACLU does take a very purist approach in opposing censorship. Our policy is that possessing even pornographic material about children should not itself be a crime. The way to deal with this issue is to prosecute the makers of child pornography for exploiting minors.

5. Why doesn’t the ACLU support gun ownership/gun control? The Second Amendment provides: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The ACLU of Arizona policy on the individual right to bear arms is different from our National ACLU policy on the issue. The National ACLU, based in New York, believes that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right. The National ACLU Policy #47 supports the Supreme Court's 1939 decision in United States v. Miller, which endorsed the view that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns or other weapons, nor does it prohibit reasonable regulation of gun ownership, such as licensing and registration. The ACLU of Arizona, which is based in Phoenix, supports the individual right to bear arms – a right that is expressly identified in Article 2, Section 26 of the Arizona Constitution. In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. v. Heller held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, whether or not associated with a state militia. In July 2008, the ACLU of Arizona Board of Directors passed the following policy: “Resolved that ACLU of Arizona does not follow national board policy #47 that the right to bear arms is a collective, not an individual right. The Arizona Constitution expressly provides that the right to bear arms, to the extent constitutionally protected, is an individual right, so policy #47 has never been operative in Arizona.”

6. Why does the ACLU support the rights of criminals but not victims of crime? The ACLU supports everybody’s rights. Citizens are outraged by crime and understandably want criminals caught and prosecuted. The ACLU simply believes that the rights to fair treatment and due process must be respected for people accused of crimes. Respecting these rights does not cause crime, nor does it hinder police from pursuing criminals. It should, and does in fact, cause police to avoid sloppy procedures.

7. Why is the ACLU against God/Christianity/the Bible? The ACLU strongly supports our country’s guarantee that all people have the right to practice their own religion, as well as the right not to practice any religion. The best way to ensure religious freedom for all is to keep the government out of the business of pushing religion on anybody. The ACLU strongly supports the separation of church and state. In practice, this means that people may practice their religion – just not with government funding or sponsorship. This simple principle in no way banishes or weakens religion. It only means that no one should have somebody else’s religion forced on him or her, even if most other people in a community support that religion.

8. Why is the ACLU against drug testing of employees? The ACLU, of course, believes that employers have the right to discipline and fire workers who fail to perform on the job. However, the ACLU does oppose indiscriminate urine testing because the process is both unfair and unnecessary. Having someone urinate in a cup is a degrading and uncertain procedure that violates personal privacy. Further, drug tests do not measure impaired job performance. A positive drug test simply indicates that a person may have taken drugs at some time in the past – not that they are failing to perform properly in their assigned work. And the accuracy of some drug tests is notoriously unreliable. The ACLU especially objects to mass random drug testing of workers. There is no reason that a person should have to prove he or she is “innocent” of taking drugs when there is no evidence that he or she has done so. In general, what workers do off the job should be their own business so long as they are performing satisfactorily at work.

9. Why does the ACLU help rapists and child molesters? Of course, the ACLU supports the prosecution and conviction of rapists and child molesters. They should receive appropriate punishment – especially for repeat offenders. But like all convicted felons, they are entitled to some basic constitutional protections. In this regard the ACLU opposes the Community Protection Act passed by the Washington Legislature. It calls for locking up an individual indefinitely – potentially for life – after he has served his prison term. The punishment is based not on additional wrongful acts, but on speculation that the person may commit illegal acts in the future. This is unconstitutional preventive detention. It is based on the unscientific notion that society can predict with any reasonable standard of accuracy how a particular individual will act at some unspecified time.

10. Why did the ACLU defend NAMBLA? In representing NAMBLA, the ACLU does not advocate sexual relationships between adults and children. In celebrated cases, the ACLU has stood up for everyone from Oliver North to the National Socialist Party. In spite of all that, the ACLU has never advocated Christianity, ritual animal sacrifice, trading arms for hostages or genocide. What we do advocate is robust freedom of speech. This lawsuit strikes at the heart of freedom of speech. The defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people find repulsive. The case is based on a shocking murder. But the lawsuit says the crime is the responsibility not of those who committed the murder, but of someone who posted vile material on the Internet. The principle is as simple as it is central to true freedom of speech: those who do wrong are responsible for what they do; those who speak about it are not. It is easy to defend freedom of speech when the message is something many people find at least reasonable. But the defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people find repulsive. That was true when the Nazis marched in Skokie. It remains true today."

 

On whether the founder of the ACLU was a communist: 

"Does the ACLU have Communist roots? Was co-founder Roger Baldwin a Communist?

No, Roger Baldwin was not a Communist. Like many of his contemporaries, he observed and wrote about the social and political issues in the early years of the Soviet Union, but later he wrote, "The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts."

Throughout the organization's history and particularly during the McCarthy era, the ACLU, its members, staff and founders have been accused of being Communists. The ACLU has no political affiliations and makes no test of individuals' ideological leanings a condition of membership or employment. Members and staff of the national ACLU and its affiliates may be Republicans, Democrats, Communists, Federalists, Libertarians, or members of any other political party or no party at all. What the ACLU asks of its staff and officials is that they consistently defend civil liberties and the Constitution."

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Just now, Yowm said:

It would help if you had the actual policy list (if it exists) rather than a defense paper.

Do you have a link to the actual policy list? Googling it just brings up Diane Dew's lovely article. 

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Just now, Yowm said:

No, you'd probably have to ask Shiloh where he got it from.

Shiloh didn't write that. The list was written by someone named Diane Dew, apparently. 

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