Yet you regard the ACLU as more honorable than the Ku Klux Klan? The former may be more respectable in polite society, but are just as despicable as the latter, albeit in a different way. Yes, I do see the ACLU as being more honorable (although that can reasonably construed as damning with faint praise). The ACLU has never lynched anyone, firebombed homes or whipped men. It's ludicrous to try and equate the two, either politically or in any other fashion.
There is an old saw, to the effect that the pen is mightier than the sword. ACLU members, unlike Klansmen, may not have personally engaged in murder or arson. However, how many people have been robbed or killed because local authorities do not have the ability to clean up red light districts or clear neighborhoods of undesirable characters? How many police officers have died in the line of duty because they hesitated in defending thenselves out of fear of bogus civil rights lawsuits? Out of fear of harassment or crippling lawsuits, many lawmen have ceased protecting residents of minority neighborhoods from the criminal element. As a result, organized crime becomes the real government in many inner city neighborhoods, to the detriment of safety and even life.
We can largely thank the ACLU for this situation. Their members wear nice suits and live in gated suburban areas, rather the Klan in their hoods and sheets and trailer parks. But if we look at the effects of the actions of the ACLU, we see far more loss of human life and far more overall damage to the minority community than was wreaked by the KKK in its heyday.
Odd how you define honor!