No, most of the hostility towards the ACLU is justified by their jihad to turn the Bill of Rights on its head and subvert the Constitution with the help of Marxist judges. This is indeed an excellent case in point for opposing the ACLU and doing everything in our power to destroy it as the America-hating terror group it has become.
No, actually, a lot of Freepers' hostility toward the ACLU stems from the fact that they are a powerful lobby for criminals, child molesters, perverts, illegal aliens, and terrorists.
No, a lot of hostility toward the ACLU on FR stems from consistent BS hypocricy from the ACLU. They don't care about civil liberties of ALL Americans, just some of them.
"What's Next will the ACLU now say we have to burn all the churches down as well?"
A lot of hostility towards the ACLU on FR stems from ignorance. This is a case in point.
18 posted on 08/21/2003 8:43 AM PDT by ConsistentLibertarian
Well bud that may be your take, but it's my observation of folks dislike of the ACLU is based on the ACLU's hatred of this nation. Are you aware it was started by a well known communist, and his goals had nothing to do with civil rights?
The ACLU's Ramona Ripston is doing her damndest to subert the California Constitution to further her agenda, blocking a legal election process.
You see, it's okay for her to challenge a Constitutional tenet, but it's despicable for the right to do the same thing. I've watched your stupifying posts on this subject. Now you defend the ACLU saying folk's dislike of it comes from their ignorance. I think your true colors are shining through here.
The Alabam Supreme Court justice wasn't forcing anyone to join or observe any church's teachings. No state statutes forced anyone to join a church, observe a church's teachings or be penalized for not doing so. Therefore any claim that he was setting up a state religion is just plain infantile.
This is yet another instance where the members of the SCOTUS pulled a rulling out of their butts.
No, we are well aware of the ACLU .. they have a long history in destroying anything that is good in this country.
That must be it! It couldn't posibly be the ACLU's radical left-wing agenda.
I couldn't agree with you more. Those ACLU a55h0les are one ignorant bunch of self-centered, socialist jerks. Why does it always take FR to lead the masses out of darkness and toward the light of truth?
Translation: I am smugly superior to you because you just don't know any better. I heard this same arguement from Leftist Liberal NEA members in my town when the school levy was voted down. It is never, "the people hate the Left and what it stands for", it is always "we failed to educate the public on how much smarter we are when it comes for whats good for them."
Any possible good the ACLU has done for anyone in the history of this nation has more than been undone by the stubbon, persistant, partisan attempts to drive every mention of God out of our government, and usually our history. The Founders had no problem with God in our halls of justice, our schools, and our public squares. 86% of those who signed the Declaration went on to publish religious tracts. Not even Jefferson spoke out about children learning their letters from Scripture on the public dime. We have gotten so much smarter in the last 50 years that we now can re-interpret history; we know better than the Founders what they really meant!
The Constitution is not a "living document". Like God, who the Founders knew helped found America, it is what it was and what it will be. It is cleaver lawyers who insist on stamping their own narrow and corrupt natures on what was and is a perfect document.
Support for the ACLU stems from ignorance, and this is a case in point.
Au contrare.
It stems from knowing all too well what the ACLU stands for and the types of causes it has it has been most prominent in litigating for.
It also stems from knowing all too well the predominantly leftist political and social views embraced by the majority of ACLU lawyers.