It is difficult to imagine an organization that has had a greater negative impact
on traditional American family values, and our culture in general, than the ACLU. The
work of the ACLU has little or nothing to do with promoting and protecting civil
liberties. The organization's ultimate goal appears to be the removal of the
Christian religion from American culture.
At first glance, they don't seem to be making an effort to remove all religious
observances from public life, just those connected to Christianity. But apparently
they want to remove everything from American society that is traditional and customary,
in order to make our country a place where anything goes.
The ACLU thrives on fear, intimidation and litigation. They frequently lose court battles,
yet they persist. Most of their success is the result of threatening to file
lawsuits against individuals, organizations and local governments which oppose their views.
See also The ACLU Goes Shopping for a Friendly Judge.
and The War on the Boy Scouts.
The Evils of the
ACLU: How the ACLU is Trying to Destroy America. [PDF]
Nut-shelling Privacy
Issues. [The ACLU was] clearly AWOL during the Clinton years of Ruby Ridge, Waco, FBI
investigations of peaceful militia groups and abortion clinic protestors. They also remained silent
when a federal agency SWAT-trooper in full riot gear pointed an automatic military assault rifle at
a little boy named Elian Gonzales.
Read
this!
ACLU &
Communism: What's the Difference? I don't know how many individuals will be won over
by this piece but we need to persuade as many as we possibly can. Those individuals who seem to be
generally good people but who view the ACLU as a civil rights organization need to examine the facts as
outlined here. If they are honest with themselves, they will see the ACLU in a totally different
light than they currently do.
ACLU:
Conceived In Tyranny. From the beginning, the American Civil Liberties Union has aligned itself
with America's adversaries. Its unrelenting strategy has been to twist our Constitution into a weapon
against American values and security. ACLU founder and longtime executive director Roger Baldwin's
infamous quote still haunts his organization today, a quarter-century after the radical activist's death:
"I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence
and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole
control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
Dismantling
the USA, Part I. [Scroll down] This one man would later prove to be the greatest influence
in bringing Communism to the shores of the USA and into its legal system. Largely consisting of Communist
disciples, in 1920 Baldwin was the central founder of the ACLU. Of its establishment, Baldwin wrote:
... "I don't regret being a part of the communist tactic which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was
doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the Communists wanted!
ACLU, booksellers challenge Oregon sexual material
law. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has joined booksellers to challenge a state
law restricting the sale or provision of sexually explicit material to children, saying it could affect
constitutionally protected material.
A.C.L.U. Sues Alabama on Ballot
Access. The American Civil Liberties Union sued Alabama elections officials Monday [7/21/2008] over what
it says is an overly expansive policy disenfranchising felons, amid concern from voting rights groups nationwide that
voting lists are being culled with too great alacrity by many states.
ACLU shot down in court; Baptist home
continues to receive funding. The American Civil Liberties Union has lost another round in its
ten-year legal battle to stop Kentucky taxpayers from funding care provided by a non-profit Baptist group to
at-risk children. The ACLU filed a lawsuit in 1998 to stop the Commonwealth of Kentucky from paying for
part of the services provided by Kentucky Baptist Home for Children.
The ACLU: Enemy of America
and Christianity. For the past forty years the ACLU has used every legal machination
to make the display of Christmas trees illegal if placed in a public institution or on property where
there is even the remotest connection to a tax dollar. They've bludgeoned America with their
claim that such displays violate the separation of church and state. The display of the
Ten Commandments? Illegal, they say. Prayer in school? Prohibited, they charge.
The mere mention of God at a graduation ceremony — grounds for a law suit.
Put ACLU On Watch. Forced to
defend its growing terrorist watch list, the FBI let slip a chilling fact that should silence ACLU grumblers: America
is teeming with 20,000 terrorists. After 9/11, federal authorities estimated that as many as 5,000 terrorists were
living in the U.S. The new figure is jarring not only because it's four times as large but because it's based on real
persons, not estimates. It's not something headquarters wanted to publicize. Officials had downplayed the threat
so as not to spook the public. … But that was before the ACLU launched a campaign with the Democrat Congress to demonize
the watch list as a Gestapo-like tool. The FBI had no choice but to knock down their myths.
Top
Ten Myths About The ACLU: If you think the ACLU represents the average American values, then you
are sadly misguided. Their absolutist views of liberty go far beyond what most people could ever support.
They support the legalization of child porn distribution, and un-regulated prostitution. They are far
from the traditional thoughts of patriotism, constantly defending America's enemies, and fighting efforts of
military recruiters.
Obama's
Imperilled Candidacy: I found it very interesting to hear [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright explicitly
endorse Obama over Hillary in church. Normally when evangelical preachers cross the political line they
get hammered for violating the separation of church and state. One pastor I know invited a local
Republican official to give his personal testimony in church and had to answer to the IRS for it. How
come black churches engage in blatant electioneering, even to the point of busing members to the voting booth,
and nobody from the ACLU or the media raises an eyebrow?
The
ACLU and Its Allies: Standing in Need of Prayer. The ACLU's perennial lawsuits attacking
our nation's religious heritage are backfiring, and that's something for which you can give thanks this year.
An important — and, until recently, overlooked — constitutional requirement called "standing"
is thwarting those attacks. Two federal appellate courts said "enough" and have recently thrown out ACLU
lawsuits brought to stop prayer before the Indiana Legislature and a school board in Louisiana because the
ACLU's clients had suffered no harm -- that is, they "lacked standing" to bring a lawsuit in the first place.
So, rulings on "standing" are now protecting public prayer.
Top Ten Reasons
To Stop The ACLU: (#10) The ACLU was founded by Communists, with communist ideals,
communist goals, and they continue to impose a Communist like agenda on America daily. … (#8) Their
outright hatred of the Boy Scouts. They are currently doing everything in their power to hurt this
organization.
The ACLU: Anti-Boy
Scout and Pro-Child Molester. Simply put, the ACLU, once famous for defending the rights of free
speech, now attacks the Boy Scouts and argues in favor of giving child sexual predators easy access to our
children and grandchildren. To add insult to injury, the ACLU uses our tax dollars to help fund these
lawsuits.
ACLU wants to help
defend alleged Sept. 11 mastermind. The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years has
scorned Pentagon military commissions as "kangaroo courts," announced Friday [4/4/2008] it will try to provide
top civilian defense attorneys for alleged terrorists facing trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — with
special emphasis on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks.
The ACLU's Bogus
Constitutional Case Against Christmas. If you're a rational human being, you might think the
greatest risks to America are murderous terrorists like Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, or
hostile nations like North Korea or Iran. But if you're with the ACLU or a committed leftist, your list
of risks to America is very different — it includes: the Boy Scouts, the Pledge of Allegiance, and
now Christmas. To the ALCU and to the left, Christmas trees, carols and nativity scenes are dangerous
instrumentalities that threaten America's foundation.
ACLU awarded $42K in Jesus icon case.
A federal judge has awarded more than $42,000 in attorneys fees to the American Civil Liberties Union for a
case challenging the legality of a religious icon hanging in a Louisiana courthouse.
ACLU
wants Bowden to stop team church trips. The American Civil Liberties Union has accused Clemson
head football coach Tommy Bowden of abusing his authority by imposing his religious beliefs on his players,
and it has asked the university to discontinue the coach's practice of strongly recommending that players
participate in an annual team visit to a local church.
ACLU
asks for U.S. domestic spying review. The American Civil Liberties Union asked the U.S. Supreme
Court on Wednesday [10/3/2007] to review a legal challenge to the warrantless domestic spying program that U.S.
President George W. Bush created after the Sept. 11 attacks. The civil liberties group
challenged a U.S. appeals court ruling that said the organizations and individuals that sued the government
had no legal right to do so because they could not prove they had been affected by the spying program.
Only in Nevada...
Nevada ACLU supports an
individual's right to bear arms. "The Nevada ACLU respects the individual's right to bear arms subject to
constitutionally permissible regulations," a statement on the organization's Web site said. "The ACLU of Nevada will
defend this right as it defends other constitutional rights." "This was the consensus," said Allen Lichtenstein,
general counsel for ACLU of Nevada. "There really wasn't a lot of dissent." But the state affiliate's position
puts it at odds with the national organization.
Gunfight at the ACLU corral:
The Nevada ACLU decided to change its gun stance — it appears to be the first state chapter to
do so — in light of the Supreme Court's ruling last month that struck down the handgun ban in the District and for
the first time interpreted the Second Amendment as an individual right, breaking with the national group.
Wyoming Lawsuit Alleges Prison Mealtime
Violates Muslim Inmates' Freedom of Religion. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a
lawsuit Thursday [4/3/2008] claiming that a Wyoming State Penitentiary policy restricting prisoners' mealtimes
violates the constitutional rights of two Muslim inmates. … At issue is an alleged "20-minute rule"
requiring inmates to eat their meals within 20 minutes after the food is delivered to a cell or common
dining area, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit seeks for the inmates to be exempted from the rule because
it forces them to choose between eating and practicing their religion.
ACLU Fires Back. Although Sen. Jay
Rockefeller (D-WV) grabbed the spotlight with his attack on TV violence, little noticed at the time was a
proposal by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) to craft a bill strengthening the FCC's profanity-regulation powers and
giving it authority to regulate violence. The American Civil Liberties Union wrote to legislators asking
them to oppose such a move.
The Editor says...
The ACLU claims there is no need to regulate profanity on television because of the "technologies enabling
parents to control content". They seem to assume that children are the only people adversely affected by
violence on TV, and that everybody makes use of
the V-Chip and the OFF button.
The ACLU and the Unitarian Universalist Church:
Roger Baldwin (founder of the ACLU), when reflecting on his life, said that in his early years he not only
regularly attended the Unitarian Church in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts; he also helped to teach in the Sunday
School and even listened to the preacher. He added, "I would say that social work began in my mind in the
Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other
people."
The
ACLU Never Forgets Its Pro-Communist Roots. More than a quarter-century after his death, the "legacy"
of American Civil Liberties Union founder Roger Baldwin — a self-professed fan of Soviet communism
and of Joseph Stalin — is still going strong. With the collapse of the Soviet empire, current
ACLU leaders have thrown more of their support to one of the last remaining bastions of the Soviet ideal: Cuba.
ACLU is fulfilling the communist
agenda. For the past few decades, the ACLU has been on a major crusade to destroy Christianity in
America, promote filth under "freedom of speech and expression," and of course, vigorously defend the homosexual
culture of death. On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read a list of
45 communist goals into the Congressional Record. [Listed in this article] are the communist goals being
implemented by the ACLU in their quest to destroy America's culture and traditions.
Communist Goals 1963 and now: For example…
#23 Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
#24 Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
#25 Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
#26 Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
ACLU's 'Search and Destroy' Agenda:
The Bible gives an illustration of Satan lying in wait to ambush Christians. Paul says, "Your enemy the
devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour." In that same vein, the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) is the 'Devourer of Religion.' The vast majority of Americans view the ACLU's
hit-squad as God-haters that desire to destroy all vestiges of religion in the public square, and all
Judeo-Christian values and beliefs. Why? Because religion gets in the way of their
secular-progressive agenda.
Is the ACLU Non-Partisan?
The ACLU proudly claim that they are "wholly non-partisan." It portrays itself as an objective organization
that is "neither liberal nor conservative, Republican nor Democrat." They say instead that they are "a public
interest organization devoted exclusively to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans." History,
and the facts seem to say otherwise.
Let ACLU protest on its own dime. Millions of
taxpayer dollars enrich the ACLU's $150 million budget annually. [That money] is then used to
attack the remaining vestiges of Christianity and morality in America. The ACLU has exploited a law
passed by Congress in the 1970s [which] allows citizens to sue state and local governments for alleged
constitutional violations of individual rights and to be awarded attorney fees if any small, legal
victory is gained.
ACLU will try
to grab the attention of the younger set. Beyond recruiting new members, the idea is to encourage
younger people to participate in government and defend civil rights, said Rachel Chaparro, development and
education coordinator for the ACLU of Colorado. Most of the ACLU's half-million members nationwide are
in their 50s and older, Chaparro said. Early last year, the national organization asked state chapters
to come up with ways to attract young professionals. The result in Colorado was monthly get-togethers in
Denver with activists and politicians such as U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and state Rep. Andrew Romanoff, D-Denver.
Enemies of America, in a Courtroom Near
You. The ACLU recently filed a petition for Hazleton [Pennsylvania] to pay it $2.4 million in
fees because ACLU lawyers persuaded a U.S. District judge to strike down a series of local ordinances. Those
laws intended to make it difficult for illegal aliens to live and work in that town. A precipitating event
for passage of the ordinances was the murder of a local resident by an illegal alien.
Supreme Court rejects ACLU domestic spying lawsuit.
The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday [2/19/2008] to civil rights and privacy advocates who oppose the Bush
administration's warrantless wiretapping program. The justices, without comment, turned down an appeal
from the American Civil Liberties Union to let it pursue a lawsuit against the program that began shortly
after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
ACLU sues
over noncitizen license ban. The American Civil Liberties Union jumped into the middle
of Michigan's driver's license controversy, filing a lawsuit Wednesday [2/13/2008] on behalf of
noncitizens who live and work here but are denied licenses or ID cards as a result of a recent
attorney general opinion.
ACLU Furthering 'Sanctuary City'
Protection for Illegals. In an effort to do the job the federal government won't do, some local
governments have promulgated laws and regulations that would address this crisis, as did the Mayor of Hazelton
[Pennsylvania] and his town's city council. These ordinances penalize employers of illegal aliens and
landlords who rent rooms to aliens who are illegally present in the United States. Small American towns
like Hazelton are attempting to push back the growth of the "Sanctuary City" concept.
Former ACLU Chapter President Arrested for
Child Pornography. Federal agents arrested Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the
Virginia chapter of the ACLU, Friday in Arlington for allegedly possessing child pornography.
Update:
Ex-ACLU Official Expected To Plead
Guilty To Kiddie Porn Charges. Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, of Arlington, Va., former president of
the Virginia chapter of the ACLU from 2002 to 2005 during the height of the Terri Schiavo case, is expected to
plead guilty to charges that he allegedly possessing hard core, commercial kiddie porn, reportedly using his
e-mail address and credit card to subscribe to and access a child pornography website, according to federal
prosecutors.
Ex-Virginia ACLU President Pleads Guilty in Child
Porn Case. A former president of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union pleaded
guilty Friday [6/1/2007] to federal child pornography charges. 51-year-old Charles Rust-Tierney entered his
plea to one count of receipt of child pornography in US District Court in Alexandria.
Even
the ACLU Shouldn't Defend This. Why is it that the ACLU will defend the rights of sex offenders
but attack a prayer given at a city council meeting? Why is it that the ACLU will seek to overturn a law
designed to protect children, and file a lawsuit if a young person utters a prayer at a graduation ceremony?
The ACLU has turned liberty upside down….
Craig to claim sex sting arrest unconstitutional.
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will argue before an appeals court that Minnesota's disorderly conduct law is unconstitutional
as it applies to his conviction in a bathroom sex sting, according to a new court filing. This is the first
time Craig's attorneys have raised that issue. However, an earlier friend-of-the-court filing by the
American Civil Liberties Union argued that Craig's foot-tapping and hand gesture under a stall divider at the
Minneapolis airport are protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of
speech.
The Editor says...
Is the ACLU asserting that lewd gestures in a public restroom are protected by the Constitution? Would
any court have agreed to such an argument prior to 1970 or perhaps 1980?
ACLU changes view of precedent
when it favors Christian group. The ACLU's support of a legal precedent used to gain recognition
of a student homosexual group has reversed now that the ruling is being used to back the rights of a Christian
club on campus, claims a public-interest law firm.
Jesus Mural Attacked by ACLU. The American
Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue the city of Slidell, Louisiana, because of a painting of Jesus.
The painting sits in the lobby of the city court. Underneath it are the words "to know peace, obey these
laws." The ACLU says people have complained about the painting, and they want it taken down.
Jesus Portrait in Lousiana Court Will Stay Up
Despite Outcry From ACLU. A portrait of Jesus on the wall at Slidell City Court will remain up
for now, despite objections from the American Civil Liberties Union, which calls it a violation of
church-state separation.
ACLU accused of wanting to
chill speech at Florida graduations. A Christian legal group says the American Civil Liberties
Union is overreacting in its attempt to pressure a Florida high school into censoring the religious speech
of students. The ACLU is calling on the Duval County School Board to adopt a new student speech policy
in light of a recent valedictory address at Wolfson High School in Jacksonville.
ACLU Against Wisconsin, Round II.
A common tactic of the ACLU when it loses a point in the political process, is to use the judicial process to
trump democracy, when the people fail to see the wisdom of the ACLU position.
Boys and girls, can you say, "racial quota?"
ACLU
targets Tustin Unified's gifted program. Too few Latino and African American students are
enrolled in gifted programs in the Tustin Unified School District, the ACLU charged in a letter sent to
the district Thursday [2/15/2007]. The organization said it planned to sue the district if the
disparity was not corrected.
Why
Does the ACLU Think Sexual Predators Have More Rights than Children? In a recent series of cases
in New Jersey, the ACLU has opposed legitimate efforts to protect children from sexual predators who attempt to
live in their neighborhoods. … They believe that freedom dictates that convicted sex offenders have the right
to live any place of their choosing, regardless of the safety of children.
ACLU Says the US Can't Bar Terrorism
Supporters. A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal
government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they
may have endorsed or espoused terrorism. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the papers attacking the
policy in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
North Carolina Judge OKs Witness
Oaths Using Quran. Witnesses and jurors being sworn in at state courthouses can take their oath
using any religious text, not just the Bible, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Paul Ridgeway said both
common law and state Supreme Court precedent allow witnesses and jurors to use the text "most sacred and
obligatory upon their conscience." The ruling came after the American Civil Liberties Union argued that
limiting that text to the Bible was unconstitutional because it favored Christianity over other religions.
North Carolina courtroom
oaths expanded beyond Bible. A ruling from a North Carolina judge that allows other religious
texts besides the Bible for swearing in of courtroom witnesses is being called a further example of the
secularization of the procedure. The American Civil Liberties Union assisted in the case of a Muslim
woman who sued for not being allowed to take her oath on the Koran, according to Associated Press.
ACLU threat nixes 23rd Psalm display.
Fearing an expensive legal challenge from the ACLU, a county commissioner begrudgingly ordered removal of a
display of the 23rd Psalm from a courthouse.
Graduation at N.J.
Church Sparks Lawsuit. The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the
Newark public school district, saying a school's decision to hold its graduation ceremonies in a Baptist
church violated a Muslim student's religious freedom. The New Jersey ACLU said Wednesday that it was
suing the school district because its decision to hold graduation in the church prevented West Side High
School senior Bilal Shareef, a Muslim, from attending. Shareef's religious beliefs forbid him from
entering a building with religious images, the civil liberties group said.
[If that's true — and it probably isn't — Shareef had better leave the
United States, because religious images can be found all over the country.]
Morality is the real
'inconvenient truth'. Our courts are inclined to agree that people have the right to watch or
read anything they want, no matter how offensive it is to traditional values, decency or community standards.
Every year, the American Civil Liberties Union pushes one case after another to the Supreme Court to chip away at
the right of society to regulate itself. And more often than not, the Supreme Court goes along for the
ride. … When I was a kid, that wasn't considered constitutionally protected speech; it was considered
obscenity.
Homeless Know Myth Of Warming. Is there or is there not
something insane about a business suing the homeless parked outside its door for a million dollars? The ACLU
claims most vagrancy and loitering laws are unconstitutional, arguing, along with litigators anxious to sue any entity
with big bucks, that we are free to park our carcasses anywhere.
ACLU sues state over 'God'
plates. The "In God We Trust" license plates that have quickly become a fixture on Indiana
roads came under a legal attack today claiming the law authorizing them is unconstitutional for favoring
that message over those on other plates.
Oconee County officials cave into
pressure from the ACLU. Under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, Oconee County
officials voted today [2/6/2007] to no longer open meetings with public prayer, opting instead for a "moment
of silence." "Despite what the ACLU would like people to believe, the First Amendment protects more
than silence," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson.
The
ACLU vs. Cobb County Schools: A story of obsession and betrayal. Do you know someone who
obsesses about something in particular? It can be a television show that they just can't miss or a never
varied topic of discussion like sports. Most people find such behavior, if not the person themselves,
annoying. … But making mountains out of molehills, or indeed making mountains out of nothing at all, is
something that the ACLU excels in. I am referring to the recent decision by the Cobb County School
Board to abandon a science textbook "warning label" that notes that evolution is a theory.
ACLU Observers Will Monitor Miami
Beach Police During Holiday. Observers from the American Civil Liberties Union will be on patrol
this holiday weekend in South Beach, watching the 600 police officers deployed for crowd control. The
president of the Greater Miami ACLU chapter said the organization was concerned about the number of arrests
made on the beach last Memorial Day weekend.
Police Sued For
Capturing Illegal Immigrants. A state police agency is being federally sued for racial profiling
because a trooper apprehended more than a dozen illegal immigrants during a routine traffic stop four months ago.
War
and the ACLU: The ACLU is crowing about the feds backing down on subpoenaing a classified document
the group possesses. With these extremist lawyers at constant war against America, the government must not
retreat. Clinton-appointed Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York made it clear in
a hearing last week that he would side with the ACLU regarding its possession of a classified directive on how
prisoners of war can be photographed.
ACLU
targets removal of prayer. In its never-ending quest to remove all things religious from public
life, the ACLU's latest lawsuit against the Wilson County School District outside of Nashville, TN, represents
a frontal attack on prayer in public schools. Wilson County is having to defend its right to allow the
free exercise of religion in a public elementary school.
ACLU Attorney: Jesus Is Just (Not)
Alright with Me. The ACLU started rattling their legal sabers at the Winston-Salem City Council
recently, complaining that the decades long tradition of having council meetings opened with a prayer by a
local pastor is unconstitutional because the pastors leading the invocation used the name of Jesus.
Five
years after 9/11, the ACLU considers Christians the terrorists. Joe Cook has long since apologized
for what he said last summer. Although he is director of the Louisiana chapter of the American Civil
Liberties Union, and strenuously opposed to anything resembling prayer in public schools or God in public
life, he says he wasn't speaking for the ACLU — or, curiously, even for
himself — when he said what he said.
Judge Uses Cut-and-Paste From ACLU
Brief. An intelligent design think tank has discovered that a U.S. District Judge cut and pasted
large portions of his anti-intelligence design decision from an ACLU brief. … The Discovery Institute found
that 90.9% of his ruling was taken virtually verbatim from an ACLU brief given to him a month before he
issued his ruling.
ACLU Sues Texas Town for Not
Renting to Illegals. Two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday [12/26/2006] challenging a
suburb's new law that outlaws renting to illegal immigrants, alleging the ordinance violates federal law and
forces landlords to act as immigration officers. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed the suit on behalf of Farmers Branch residents and landlords.
[More about the situation in Farmer's Branch can be
found here.]
Judge Finds NSA Program Unconstitutional.
Back in January of 2006, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the NSA wire tapping program. The ACLU's lawsuit
was on behalf of journalists, lawyers, and others who said that the NSA program made it hard to do their
jobs. I can't see as how that would be correct; unless they were in contact with terrorists.
ACLU
exec sued over student loans, blames bank error. Federal officials in Ohio have sued a member
of the American Civil Liberties Union's national board of directors, contending he never repaid
government-backed student loans that date back to the 1980s.
Removal of
Cross From Los Angeles County Seal Prompts Lawsuit. The decision by Los Angeles County officials
to remove the small cross from the county's official seal has triggered a lawsuit. It was filed Tuesday [10/17/2006]
by the Thomas More Law Center in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The decision to remove
the cross from the seal was made in June of 2004 after the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue
the L.A. County supervisors because of their use of a Christian symbol.
Legal Groups
Battle Over Cross for Katrina Monument. A Louisiana parish planning to erect a cross on the bank
of the Mississippi River in memory of the 130 people who died from Hurricane Katrina insists it is not violating
the Constitution despite a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union. St. Bernard Parish
Councilman Mark Madary believes the ACLU is trying to create a controversy to generate publicity, rather than
attempting to protect Americans' First Amendment rights.
Did
someone mention Hurricane Katrina?
ACLU Targets
Pennsylvania Town Over Immigration Ordinance. Mayor Louis J. Barletta of Hazleton, Pa., is
standing by one of the strictest anti-illegal immigration laws in the country in spite of a lawsuit claiming
the ordinance is unconstitutional. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and the American
Civil Liberties Union filed suit Wednesday [8/16/2006], challenging that the Hazleton ordinance. The
law would fine landlords who rent to illegal aliens, deny business permits to entities that employ them, and
make English the town's official language.
Group hopes to "put the
fear of God" in the ACLU. The man behind an online effort to rein in the American
Civil Liberties Union is taking his campaign to America's churches, hoping to mobilize millions
of believers into taking a stand against the legal organization.
ACLU Accused
of Profiting at Taxpayer Expense. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is guilty of "judicial
blackmail," according to the American Legion, which is pushing for congressional legislation to end one of the
ACLU's streams of revenue. Judges would be stripped of the authority to award attorney fees to the ACLU
and similar groups in cases involving the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment Establishment Clause, if the
American Legion gets its way.
The
ACLU contributes to U.S. moral decay. What does unrestricted illegal immigration, removal
of all Christian symbols from public buildings, removal of "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and
the prevention of public prayer, and forcing the Boy Scouts to hire atheist and homosexual Scoutmasters
have in common? All of these issues have been pursued in court by the American Civil Liberties
Union; since they cannot win on these issues at the ballot box or in the court of public opinion.
Expose and Defeat the ACLU. On every front
(from the Boy Scouts, to the Pledge of Allegiance to the Ten Commandments), Grassfire has faced the same
opponent — the ACLU and its radical, anti-God, anti-religion, anti-American agenda. … The
time has come to turn back the ACLU's attacks.
ACLU Sues Over Sex-Offender
Ban. Six sex offenders sued the city [of Indianapolis] Wednesday [5/31/2006] to block a new
ordinance that bars them from venturing within 1,000 feet of parks, pools and playgrounds when children
are present.
Screening
for terrorists as nicely as possible. One of the frustrating reasons the U.S. government feels
compelled to spend all of this time and energy coming up with computerized lie detectors is that civil
libertarians can't trust airport security personnel to do the same thing. Why? Because it's
possible for humans to be racist. The TSA's more established security system, Screening Passengers by
Observation Technique, or SPOT, relies on human intelligence instead of the artificial kind. … This
apparently is unacceptable for civil libertarians.
ACLU praises library gay pride display. The
Connecticut branch of the American Civil Liberties Union on Monday [6/26/2006] praised [Shelton, CT] library
officials' decision to keep a gay pride exhibit on display at the Huntington branch library, despite several
complaints.
Judge:
School's Gay Rights Club Can Meet. U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore ruled Friday
[4/6/2007] that Okeechobee High School must grant the same privileges to the Gay Straight Alliance that it
grants other clubs, as mandated by the federal Equal Access Act. The American Civil Liberties Union sued
the Okeechobee school board in November on behalf of the high school's Gay-Straight Alliance after school officials
said the group was a "sex-based" organization that would violate its abstinence-only education policy.
The ACLU's shocking
legacy: The ACLU is a leading advocate of same-sex "marriage," and has expressed
support for polygamy and polyamory ("open" marriage) as well. … Instead of being an organization
that simply took a "wrong turn," the ACLU has devoted itself from the very beginning
to the devastation of America's most cherished traditions, values, and laws.
Abortion pits ACLU
vs. Arpaio. The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday [8/7/2008] asked that Sheriff Joe
Arpaio be held in contempt of court for violating a 2005 ruling regarding county jail inmates' rights to be
transported to clinics to have abortions.
The ACLU
is Evil. The ACLU's position on abortion, which, to be blunt, is the brutal
taking (slaughter) of the life of an unborn child in a mother's womb. The ACLU has
defended abortion on demand without exception at all costs. They have defended partial
birth abortion in the courts with their Planned Parenthood allies. How anyone can defend
the barbaric procedure of PBA and not call it evil? The brutal torture of an unborn
child this way is something that no one with common sense can defend.
The Editor says...
The article above was written in response to an article
entitled, "The
ACLU Is Not Evil", which in my opinion, could not be more incorrect.
ACLU
Opposes Tax Exemptions For All Churches. After learning this myself, the question came to
me … how could anyone say this organization is not anti-Christian?
'Choose
Life' tags expected by fall after failed challenge. "Choose Life" license plates for Tennessee
drivers could hit the road by autumn. … The nation's highest court said Monday [6/26/2006] that it would
not consider appeals from abortion rights groups wanting to stop states from issuing car license plates bearing
a "Choose Life" message. … "Were obviously disappointed with the decision," said Hedy Weinberg,
executive director of the Tennessee ACLU.
A perversion
of Justice: As vile as pederasts, pedophiles, bottom-feeding scum-suckers, are, there are others
who are even worse, if only because they are far more numerous. For openers, there are the lawyers who
use all their guile to con juries into letting these freaks run loose. I have no idea how these shysters
sleep at night, knowing full well that their children and grandchildren could be the creep's next prey.
Next we have the judges, the parole boards, the ACLU and the legislatures, who are all in cahoots to pretend
that these perverts are just like other criminals. It's just not so.
Federal Judge Blocks Prayer At High
School Graduation Ceremony. The senior class at a southern Kentucky high school gave their
response Friday night [5/19/2006] to a federal judge's order banning prayer at commencement. About
200 seniors stood during the principal's opening remarks and began reciting the Lord's Prayer, prompting
a standing ovation from a standing-room only crowd at the Russell County High School gymnasium.
One student complains, and everybody is affected. What happened to majority rule?
Prayer is
out at Shelby graduation. Shelby County High School will not schedule any formal prayers at its
June 2 high school graduation because a student complained that such prayers violate the constitutional
ban on state-sponsored religion. Shelby High School principal Gary Kidwell said … the school
had received a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky on behalf of a student
demanding the school not have the prayer.
What's this? Squabbling within the ACLU?
ACLU May Censure Its Board Members After They Opposed
Abortion Bill. The ACLU joined leading pro-abortion organizations last month in backing a
measure that would threaten to shut down pregnancy centers that abortion advocates say deceive women
because they don't do abortions.
Would ACLU Squelch Free Speech of Its Own
Officials? It appears the ACLU is seeking to muzzle some of its own board members. The
American Civil Liberties Union is often portrayed as a great defender of free speech — with the exception,
some would say, of Christian speech in the public square. But now comes word in a New York
Times report that the ACLU is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members
from publicly criticizing the organization's policies and internal administration.
ACLU Opposes Safe Air
Travel. Unlike President Bush, the American Civil Liberties Union is not interested in air
security. Like Senator Kerry, they prefer sensitivity to safety. [In November 2004], the
"nonpartisan" ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging Logan International Airport's "behavior pattern recognition
program" on the grounds that it "condones" racial- and ethnic- profiling. The suit alleges that Logan's
safety procedures are unconstitutional, and the litigants are asking for monetary damages.
How the
ACLU lost its bearings: In the last two years, under the leadership of Executive Director
Anthony Romero and President Nadine Strossen, the ACLU has repeatedly been caught practicing the opposite
of what it preaches.
For ACLU's Anthony Romero, These Should Be the Best of
Times. For the American Civil Liberties Union and its executive director, Anthony Romero, these
should be the best of times. Fear of government excess in the war on terror has driven membership rolls
to more than 550,000 from less than 300,000.
ACLU
Warned on Plan to Limit Members' Speech. A lawyer in the New York state attorney general's office
informally warned the American Civil Liberties Union that his office had concerns about proposed standards that
would limit the group's board members from speaking publicly about policies and internal operations, according
to three board members.
Inmates
Sue to Overturn Nude Magazine Ban. Two inmates have filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Department
of Correction to overturn a policy that bars magazines such as Playboy and Hustler. … "The policy is
written so broadly that it includes within its prohibitions such things as personal letters between prisoners
and loved ones and much of the world's great literature and art," said the complaint, which was prepared by the
American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana.
The Editor says...
Yeah, right. AS IF great literature and art appreciation are major concerns in the
Indiana state prisons. Very obviously, the people in the Indiana state prison are
miserable. They should be. They're being punished. And some of these
miserable individuals will use any available method to make the prison administrators
just as unhappy. Sadly, the ACLU and its Indiana aubsidiary have made themselves
willing accomplices in this counterproductive effort.
Keep in mind that this is the same ACLU who sued the Indiana House of Representatives to keep the
name of Jesus out of the legislative
sessions.*
From the Desk of
Brian C. Bosma: [In June 2006], the Indiana Civil Liberties Union filed suit requesting a
federal judge to enjoin me, as Speaker of the House, from allowing prayers referencing the name of Jesus
Christ in the Indiana House Chambers. Specifically, the ICLU's Ken Falk argues that prayer in the
Statehouse has become too Christian.
Statement from
the Indiana House of Representatives: [On November 30, 2005] Judge David S. Hamilton of
U.S. Federal Court (Southern District of Indiana) ruled that the name of Jesus Christ cannot be spoken during
prayers opening sessions of the Indiana House of Representatives. The lawsuit was brought by the
Indiana Civil Liberties Union (ICLU) naming Speaker of the House Brian C. Bosma as the defendant.
ACLU
Threatens Another Lawsuit Over a Cross. Today we applaud the local government of a Louisiana
Parish for its decision to stand-up against the ACLU. The Parish, which is under attack by the ACLU for
plans to permit the construction of a memorial that includes a cross to honor hurricane victims, is on firm
legal ground.
Cross battle taken to
Washington. In an effort supported by Christian advocacy groups nationwide, San Diego
Mayor Jerry Sanders met with White House lawyers in Washington, D.C., to ask President Bush to issue
an executive order that would save the Mount Soledad cross after a judge ruling in a case brought
by the ACLU ordered it removed.
The most obnoxious
group in America: The ACLU proclaims that they're merely abiding by the Constitution's
insistence on the separation of church and state. The only problem with that position is that
the Constitution says no such thing.
ACLU Sues the Pentagon for
Monitoring. The group says the Pentagon has been monitoring antiwar groups and individuals and
has compiled lists on people it sees as potential threats but who the ACLU says are exercising their
free-speech rights.
Did
someone mention domestic spying?
ACLU making bid for monument
removal. The American Civil Liberties Union will make a simple request Monday [5/1/2006] in
federal court: Declare Haskell County's Ten Commandments display unconstitutional and order the
granite marker removed from the courthouse lawn.
No School is Safe and
Free from the ACLU. Many parents remove their children from public schools for various
reasons. Some do so because they believe their kids would excel in a private or religious school
and get a better education. Others do so out of concern for their religious values being impugned
by the likes of Planned Parenthood who have been allowed to teach sex education to our children in
some parts of the country.
Muslim student, ACLU fight graduation
prayer. 17-year-old: 'Terms like Jesus Christ, heavenly father … were
offensive to me'.
ACLU
Defends the Tyranny of the Minority. The ACLU says they're going to sue the state of
Michigan if the voters pass a citizen initiated petition to put a Constitutional amendment to
ban abortion on the fall ballot.
ACLU
Supports the Right to Vote Even If You're Dead or Foreign. When the House passed the Federal
Election Integrity Act of 2006, requiring photo IDs for voters in future federal elections, the ACLU issued a
statement [opposing it]. Similar laws have been passed in at least six states, and the ACLU has either
led the attack on all such laws, or lawyers well schooled in ACLU arguments have done so.
The ACLU's
Latest Inaction. Here was a perfect case for the ACLU to prove they, as many of their
chapters' web site claim, represent the civil rights of all citizens. The ACLU is swift to come
to the "aid" of students who refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance but apparently they are "slow" to come
to the defense of a student who refused to stand during the playing of the Mexican National Anthem.
The ACLU fights against free speech for those who oppose abortion.
Maloney Wins Support of ACLU For Regulation of Abortion
Ads. A New York congresswoman's proposal to have the federal government regulate advertising
for abortion counseling services has won the support of the ACLU, despite warnings from other civil
libertarians that the measure is unconstitutional and unwise.
The ACLU Vs. American
Sovereignty: The ACLU is appealing to the U.N. Human Rights Committee with cries of how evil the
United States Government is.
ACLU upset over talk of
single-sex classes at Arrowhead. The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is challenging
recent discussions by Arrowhead High School officials over offering single-sex classes for the 2006-07
school year.
Boy Scout lawsuit back in court for
appellate hearing. A lawsuit seeking to end government funding of the nearly 70-year-old
National Boy Scout Jamboree is back in court tomorrow. … The A-C-L-U argued that the support was
unconstitutional because the scouts are required to take an oath that pledges "duty to God."
Coddling
Criminals: ACLU Argues Killing a Killer Violates the Rights of the Observers? I've
heard of grasping at straws, but this is ridiculous. This case proves the anti-death penalty
leftists don't have a case and they know it.
Police
Shot Him, But ACLU Killed Him, Group Says. Police in Antioch, Calif., shot and killed a man
this week when he allegedly advanced on them with a carving knife and a meat fork. Although a bullet
killed 27-year-old Scott Dittman, it might not have happened if police could have used a TASER instead of
a gun, a law enforcement lobbying group said on Friday [2/17/2006].
Battling the ACLU Agenda: On
the religious liberty front, the ACLU's assault on the Ten Commandments and other forms of
expressions of faith in the public square has been unrelenting. The pornography issue has also
been one where the ACLU has taken an aggressive and, in my view, dangerous position. The ACLU
has even gone so far as to say the possession of child pornography deserves constitutional protection.
ACLU's 'Bible Crusade' Reaches
Into Small-Town America. A Christian attorney says the ACLU is resorting to "old
tricks" by filing a federal lawsuit to stop The Gideons International from giving Bibles to fifth-graders
at a public school in Missouri.
Thou shalt
have no others gods before the ACLU. There was a time when "fear of God" meant
piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of secular
liberals who get itchy and twitchy at any reminder of our religious roots as a nation. … This
gives "God fearing" a whole new meaning.
Lawyer
wants Jesus off school wall. An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer has asked a West
Virginia high school to remove a picture of Jesus Christ that has hung at the school for
40 years.
How to identify
American totalitarians: In America today, two groups are most actively engaged in falsifying
history: the ACLU and the anti-smoking movement. The ACLU is suing cities and counties to remove
crosses from their city and county seals. … Examples of anti-smoking fanatics doctoring photographs
[to remove cigarettes] are so legion that I can only offer a few examples in the space of a column.
The ACLU is uneven in its
approach to liberty. In theory, the American Civil Liberties Union was established to uphold
a citizen's constitutional rights and come to his or her aid if liberties are infringed upon. However,
in its quest for achieving its own partisan agenda, the organization has exaggerated the Founding
Father's words and misinterpreted them.
ACLU to Attack Florida Sex
Offender Laws. The ACLU has announced that it plans to challenge Florida laws requiring
sexual predators to steer clear of schools, parks, day-care centers, libraries, and playgrounds.
Florida
Supreme Court Helped to Fund ACLU. Between 1990 and 1997, the Florida
Bar Foundation, a creation of the Florida Supreme Court, provided more than $600,000 to
help pay the salary of the ACLU of Florida's legal director.
The tort
tax: The tort tax you're paying goes well beyond the increased costs of goods and
services. A growing share of your state and federal taxes is also usurped to compensate
lawyers. For example, when the ACLU sues local, state and federal entities and prevails,
those entities pay all the ACLU's fees. In other words, the ACLU is largely a taxpayer-funded
organization.
Petitioning Congress to
Stop Tax Dollars to ACLU. The Center for Reclaiming America for Christ has hand-delivered
to the office of Rep. John Hostettler the names of more than 165,000 people who want Congress to defund
the ACLU.
Non-Christian
texts sought for courtroom oaths. When witnesses are sworn in, the
religious texts of non-Christian faiths should be allowed in North Carolina courts
along with the Bible, the ACLU argued in a lawsuit filed against the state
Tuesday [7/26/2005].
Editor's Note: So… how
long will it be before your new Congressman or President takes the oath of office with one hand on the
Koran, or the Torah, or a copy
of 1984? What
book would an atheist or a humanist use? Think about it. Why waste your time
listening to the testimony of someone who doesn't believe in absolute truth and absolute
right and wrong? That's what you can expect if the ACLU has its way.
New book:
"The ACLU vs America" tells
the truth about the American Civil Liberties Union's war on religious freedom, traditional values,
marriage, the sanctity of life, and the United States of America. The Alliance Defense Fund's Alan
Sears and Craig Osten lay bare the subversive plans, deceitful tactics, and shocking goals of the Left's
leading legal powerhouse. Far from the noble protector of our constitutional rights many Americans
believe it to be, the ACLU has from its earliest days deliberately and patiently chipped away at the
legal, moral, and religious foundations of our Republic.
Excerpt:Through
the ACLU's use of the law to shape mankind in its image, it is
constantly restricting liberty, not enlarging it. They are censoring speech
rather than protecting it. Public school officials are afraid to say, "Merry
Christmas," to acknowledge our nation's faith history, or celebrate Christmas, for
fear of an ACLU lawsuit. Many people are afraid to talk openly and publicly
about their sincerely held religious beliefs in their workplaces because of fear of
legal action against them. The list goes on and on.
ACLU to county: Get a Christmas tree or
else. It probably shouldn't take the threat of legal action to get into the holiday spirit,
but that was what spurred Maui County into action. County workers raised a festive tree at the
Kalana O Maui Building Wednesday with just five days to go before Christmas, after receiving a letter
from the American Civil Liberties Union warning that the existing holiday display of a Hanukkah menorah was
unconstitutional. The letter threatened a federal lawsuit if the display was not corrected.
U.S.
Senate Defends the Boy Scouts From the ACLU. On July 26, the United
States Senate voted 98–0 to allow the Boy Scouts of America to continue the
practice of hosting the National Scout Jamboree on U.S. military bases. The
legislation, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), ignores a federal judge's order
barring the Department of Defense from aiding the children's organization.
ACLU
defends polygamy. The president of the American Civil Liberties Union says
polygamy is among the "fundamental rights" that her organization will continue to defend.
ACLU targets
abstinence-only programs. The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday [9/21/2005] began
a campaign to urge officials in 18 states to reject abstinence-only sex-education
programs. Many abstinence programs contain false or misleading information,
discriminate against homosexual youth and promote religion, ACLU leaders said, citing
a December report issued by Rep. Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat.
Are homosexuals incapable of
abstinence?
Court
rebuffs legislature in ACLU suit. A circuit court judge denied the
Wisconsin Legislature the opportunity to intervene in an ACLU lawsuit that seeks
taxpayer-funded employee health benefits for same-sex couples.
How the
Left harmed America this week: Not a week goes by that some part of the Left does
not hurt America. But in the past two weeks, three examples stood out for the degree of
such harm. The first example involved the ACLU….
ACLU Wants Bush Impeached Over NSA
Wiretaps. While White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was asserting Monday [3/20/2006]
that the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program was a vital tool in the war against
terrorism, a panel assembled by the American Civil Liberties Union was arguing that President Bush should
be impeached over the spying program.
More about the domestic surveillance issue.
Darwinian
Democrats: [An] unpopular Democrat, who a year earlier had told the York Daily
Record [after losing in the school board election] that her post-election plans included spending
more time with her family, instead decided she needed to spend more time with the ACLU. … The
burning question is not whether life on Earth was created or evolved. Rather, the great mystery is
why the content of ninth-grade science classes in tiny Dover, Pa., should merit the attentions of
the federal judiciary.
ACLU
sues clerk over city's new voter ID rule. The American Civil Liberties Union on
Thursday [10/27/2005] sued [Albuquerque City Clerk Judy] Chavez in federal court, saying the photo
voter ID requirement that voters passed on Oct. 4 is unconstitutional. … [even though]
more than 58,000 voters supported the measure on election day, giving it 73 percent of
the vote.
As usual, the wishes of the majority — clearly expressed at the ballot box — are
of little or no concern to the ACLU.
ACLU Defends Woman
Guilty of Doing Cocaine While Pregnant. The ACLU has filed an appeal on behalf of
an Easton County (Md.) woman who was convicted of reckless endangerment after giving birth to a
baby boy with considerable levels of cocaine in his system. The ACLU plans to argue that an
unborn child has no rights under the law and is therefore not entitled to any protections.
ACLU Sees Green
Behind the Gavel. U.S. Representative John Hostettler has introduced legislation
which seeks to prevent the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from collecting millions of
dollars in court awards when they seek to remove symbols of the Christian faith from society.
ACLU Sues to Stop
County Commission Prayers. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal
lawsuit against the Cobb County (Ga.) Commission, demanding that the county bar overtly Christian
prayers. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of five residents, who claimed that they "are offended
and often feel repressed."
ACLU Compares Praying
Christians to Terrorists. After members of the Tangipahoa Parish (La.) School Board
hosted a conference to discuss religious liberties in the public school system, an ACLU spokesman
compared the board members seeking to pray at meetings to "the people who flew the airplanes into
the buildings in this country."
Boy Scouts
Drop Public School Ties. The Boy Scouts of America is removing the
charters of thousands of scouting units from public schools after an American
Civil Liberties Union threat to sue taxpayer-funded institutions that charter BSA units.
A Report on the Anti-Christian ACLU. The American Civil Liberties Union
is on an anti-Christian campaign to remove all Christian symbols from public display. The
current effort to remove any vestige of Christianity from public life began back in
the 1920s when the ACLU first gained political power in the United States. Its
founder, Roger Baldwin, was a Unitarian socialist who supported Joseph Stalin and
whose close friends included leaders of the Communist Party, USA, including a Soviet
spy. While attacking Christian symbols, the ACLU has also defended pornographers,
child molesters, and homosexuals who wish to adopt children.
Rein
in the ACLU. The Boy Scouts of America — a respected
all-American, private organization — continues to be attacked by
the ACLU. The latest example is the Pentagon's cave-in to settle a
1999 lawsuit by not allowing military bases to sponsor Boy Scout
troops. The name — American Civil Liberties
Union — is at best a misnomer. More accurately,
ACLU means Assault Christian Liberties Unmercifully.
ACLU: Attacking
American Freedoms Again. Each spring as high school graduation approaches, the
ACLU sends out a letter to public schools warning them that no one can pray or make remarks
referring to their faith at graduation. But the ACLU goes further than that. They
typically demand that public schools censure any speech that might be viewed as having
a religious tone.
ACLU
behind Illinois' forced hiring of "gays". A controversial amendment
to the Illinois Human Rights Act, extending anti-discrimination protection on the
basis of sexual orientation, was pushed vigorously in the legislature
by the state chapter of the ACLU.
Concerns
Arise at ACLU. Over Document Shredding. The American Civil Liberties Union has been
shredding some documents over the repeated objections of its records manager and in conflict with its
longstanding policies on the preservation and disposal of records. … The organization refused to address
which documents were being shredded, among other questions.
The ACLU: Anti-Life Legal Shock Troops.
The American Civil Liberties Union has cloaked itself in the red, white, and blue trappings of the First
Amendment for decades. The general public impression fostered by the group is that its first and foremost
mission is the defense of free speech. However … The ACLU (often called the "American Child
Liquidation Union" by pro-lifers) was one of the leading forces that enshrined abortion in our culture.
It demands that everyone pay for abortions with their tax dollars and is even trying to obstruct the wishes of
the people by attempting to disable the processes of the state legislatures in trying to curtail abortion in
any manner whatever!
ACLU Files Suit in Pennsylvania Over
Evolution. The ACLU said its lawsuit will be the first to challenge whether public schools should
teach "intelligent design," which holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by some
higher power.
Department of Defense Caves To ACLU's
Anti-Boy Scout Agenda. "The ACLU continues its war against the Boy Scouts. It has succeeded
in forcing the Pentagon to issue a warning to military bases around the world to avoid sponsoring Boy Scout
troops," said Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon. "This is a victory of
humanistic fascism over religious freedom and the right of private organizations to set their own membership
standards."
The "Anti-Christian
Liberties" Union. Jay Sekulow notes that in California, students are required to read the
Koran in school and the ACLU has no problem with this. In New York City, public schools were forced
to remove all Christian symbols of Christmas but not Jewish Menorahs or the Islamic
Star and Crescent for Ramadan — and the ACLU didn't object. Sekulow
predicts that the ACLU will eventually sue cities like "Corpus Christi" to change
their names because it means "Body of Christ."
The Editor says...
Many other examples exist. What do you think "Providence" means? And then there are
San Antonio, San Diego, and Santa Clara.
Where
is the "Telephone Clause" in the Constitution? The ACLU, in some circles
sarcastically referred to as the American Communist Lawyers Union, works diligently to
tear apart the citizens of our country from our Judeo-Christian roots. Their
goal is to erode the connection between our governing principals and a higher power. They
are relentless in their fight to undermine the protections guaranteed in our Constitution under
the guise that they are fighting for our individual rights. They are promoting a secular
global agenda that could eventually erase our history.
What Do You Know? Conservatives Can
Read! The fact is when students opt to pray before meals at a state-funded
college, the ACLU brings suit. When high school students desire to offer a simple
prayer of thanks at their graduation or before a football game, the ACLU attempts to stop
them. When a community wishes to erect a plaque honoring the Ten Commandments on
public ground, the ACLU screams foul. Nevertheless, the ACLU remains a sacred cow
of the mainstream media.
The Bill of Rights'
Implausible Defenders. An incredible deception is underway. Ultra-leftist groups with long
histories of supporting totalitarianism are posing as the chief defenders of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights against the current onslaught of police-state legislation. The Establishment media, of course, are
assisting these pro-Communist poseurs, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Lawyers Guild,
and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Don't look to the ACLU and its left-wing allies to defend your
liberty and the Constitution against the encroaching police state.
Five reasons to
fear the Democratic party: Reason #2 - The ACLU. In the nearly three years since the mass murder of 3,000 innocent people
on American soil by fanatical Muslim terrorists, there is not a single law or policy that the
ACLU has supported that would help prevent a bloody repeat of Sept. 11.
About the ACLU: The ACLU says
they are "defending the Bill of Rights." How? By using fear of lawsuits to budget
conscious City Halls and Schools, etc. and scaring Christianity out of our American culture.
The "Anti-Christian Liberties"
Union. The ACLU claims to be dedicated to protecting the freedoms of all Americans. But its
legacy is one of defending pornographers, child molesters, abortionists, and stripping our nation of
its Judeo-Christian heritage.
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. Help us expose the
ACLU's radical agenda against America!
A Jew defends
the cross. For the overwhelming majority of millions of citizens of Los Angeles
County over the past 50 years, this seal has aroused no opposition. But a few months
ago, someone with a magnifying glass at the American Civil Liberties Union discovered that the
smallest item on the seal was a cross. And in its aim to expunge any trace of Christianity
and God from American public life, the ACLU brought this fact to the attention of the five
Los Angeles County supervisors.
Editor's Note:
If the city, county or state government fights one of these ACLU lawsuits, then they will
be accused of "establishing a religion." If they don't fight the ACLU, then all traditional
observances of religion, especially Christianity, will be eradicated from our society over the
next several years.
ACLU
Misses the Mark. Despite the ACLU's claim that it is objecting to the promotion
of religion, the group is actually protesting historical accuracy. Christian heritage
irritates the ACLU. The past cannot be changed but the ACLU is now making a sincere
attempt to cleanse the public arena of what it considers objectionable history. One
can imagine a colonial ACLU scolding John Adams, for writing, "Our Constitution was made
only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government
of any other."
School rallies to retain
sign: The ACLU says the message "God Bless America" divides kids by
religion and is unconstitutional.
ACLU
Sues to Censor Music. In Columbus, Ohio, the ACLU is suing
over religious music in schools, saying that the practice of having student
choral groups perform Christian music is "effectively endorsing, promoting and
sponsoring religion over non-religion and the Christian faith over other faiths,
all in violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment."
ACLU
threatens suit to stop mealtime prayer. Challenge
to Virginia Military Institute based on controversial legal theory.
ACLU
represents Bush protesters. The American Civil Liberties Union will
file suit today [12/9/2004] on behalf of six men who were arrested when they stripped
down to thongs and made a human pyramid in anticipation of President Bush's motorcade.
L.A. County's new cross-less
seal: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a proposed new county seal
next week after a threatened lawsuit caused the lawmakers to delete a tiny cross from the logo. On
June 1 the board voted 3 to 2 in closed session to acquiesce to the ACLU and remove the
cross from the 47-year-old logo.
ACLU
demands removal of cross from Los Angeles County seal. The
ACLU did not object to the Roman goddess or the name Los Angeles, which
means "the angels." Ben Wizner, an ACLU attorney, said
that to do so would push the issue to "extreme limits."
Cross
Stricken from Los Angeles Seal. The American Civil Liberties
Union has struck again, this time joining forces with left-wing county
supervisors to eradicate a tiny cross from the Los Angeles County
seal. On June 1, the board of supervisors voted 3-2
to side with the ACLU's demand that the Christian symbol be expunged
because it is allegedly unconstitutional and offensive to non-Christians.
ACLU
finds a pot of gold at the foot of the cross. A little-known 1976
federal law called the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act enables the ACLU to
collect attorneys' fees for its suits against crosses, the Pledge of Allegiance, and
the Ten Commandments. This law was designed to help plaintiffs in civil
rights cases. But the ACLU is using it for First Amendment cases, asserting
that it is a civil right NOT to see a cross or the Ten Commandments. The
financial lure created by this law is the engine that drives dozens of similar
cases nationwide.
The ACLU
vs. Religious Liberty. The ACLU protects the freedom of gay marriage, pedophilia,
and abortion, but when it comes to religious freedom, some religious people might find
themselves discriminated against.
City Leaders Step Up to the Plate for
National Motto, Mountaintop Cross. "People who hear [about] this should tell their councils that
this has never been overturned once it's been voted on," [Oceanside councilman Jack] Feller says. "So
they don't have to worry about the ACLU or these groups coming after them, and they should be proud to be
putting God back in this country." The city official points out the godly heritage of which he
speaks. "It's in the Constitution — our forefathers were believers," he notes. "So
definitely, this country was founded on religious principles and beliefs."
U.S. Court of Appeals: Cleanse
the Ten Commandments from the courtroom. "The ACLU will stop at nothing to
censor religion from every public sphere in America," ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull
said. "And we will not stop in our efforts to oppose them. The Establishment
Clause provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. You will not find
the so-called 'separation of church and state' anywhere in the Constitution."
The
Erroneous Letter of the Law: The phrase "separation of church and state"
does not appear in any official government document; the concept was introduced in 1947
during the Supreme Court case of Everson vs. Board of Education. In fact, the decision
for the case was written by an ACLU lawyer who inserted the words, separation of church
and state. Without hesitation, the Court embraced and adopted the concept; thus
imposing it on an unsuspecting Nation. That's it, the ACLU fabricated it in
1947, and the Courts have been beating us over the head with it ever since.
Ten Commandments
Poster Ruled Unconstitutional. On July 14, [2004,] a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 2-1 ruling, declaring an Ohio judge's display of the Ten
Commandments to be unconstitutional. In March of 2001, the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit against Ohio Judge James DeWeese for posting two framed
copies of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. On June 11, 2002, a federal judge
ruled that Judge DeWeese's Ten Commandments posters violated the Constitution.
ACLU Bullies
District into Banning Bible Distribution. Under a looming federal lawsuit
initiated by the ACLU, a suburban school district in Missouri has agreed to a settlement
barring the Gideons International organization from distributing Bibles to any students
who express an interest in receiving them.
Congressman
Challenges Courts' Moves to Eliminate God, Bible from Public Forum: During
the last several months, attacks on Christianity in the public arena have
gained considerable notoriety around the country. They include a legal effort to
eliminate "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and challenges by the American
Civil Liberties Union to remove Ten Commandments monuments from public property in
Alabama and Pennsylvania.
School District,
ACLU Refuse Christian Free-Speech. Bowing to pressure from the Connecticut Civil
Liberties Union (Connecticut chapter of the ACLU), the Windsor Locks School District reversed
its decision to allow clergy to give a biblical response to claims made by a pro-homosexual
group (the Stonewall Speakers) in a school-wide student assembly.
Virginia's "Minute of Silence" Law
Stands . The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with a Virginia law requiring a
moment of silence in the commonwealth's government schools. The justices rejected a challenge to that
law, dashing the hopes of American Civil Liberties Union, which argued against it. According to ACLU, the
law was "enacted specifically to facilitate and encourage school prayer."
Keeping
Christmas: The ACLU and other groups are performing their annual ritual
of keeping the public square (including the public school) clean of any mention of
Jesus Christ, unless that mention is intended as a curse word. In such a case, the
ACLU will leap to the defense.
ACLU's
war against the poor: Storm troopers of the ACLU have chalked up their latest
victory in their ongoing campaign to stamp out any hint of religion in American
public life.
It's a Cross the ACLU
Cannot Bear. Steve Crampton, chief counsel for the American Family Association
Center for Law & Policy, laments the Board's decision to simply lie down when faced by
a threat from the ACLU. "In the end, the majority of [the county supervisors] simply
didn't want to fight — and if you don't fight, you certainly can't win," Crampton
says. "So the ACLU's threat results in a victory without having to fire a
shot." Crampton thinks the ACLU would be better served pursuing civil liberties
rather than running around the country looking for crosses.
ADF commits to defend LA
County against attack by ACLU. Attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund
have notified Los Angeles County Supervisors that the county's seal is defensible under
current legal precedent. According to a letter sent to Los Angeles County Supervisors
this week, the cross present in the seal passes the Supreme Court's
three-prong Lemon test for the acceptability of such symbols.
The savaging of America's
foundation: What is next for these people? Will they go to government cemeteries for our
military, such as Arlington National Cemetery, and demand that all crosses be removed from the graves of
our fallen heroes? What is it going to take for the vast majority of God-fearing Americans to wake
up and say, "Enough is enough"?
The
ACLU vs. the Boy Scouts: The ACLU needs a new summer camp for its young folks,
preferably in San Diego's Balboa Park. The PC Scouts, as we'll call them, will head off
to Balboa to obtain Rights Badges (as opposed to merit badges) and learn the meaning of the PC
Scout Oath: "On my self-esteem, I will do whatever feels good for myself; And to
question authority, To help myself at all times, To keep myself physically
gratified, Mentally interested, And morally tolerant."
Dishonoring
Scouts and the Taxpayers: In a time of tight budgets for governments
up and down California, San Diego recently announced a massive contribution of taxpayer
dollars to the American Civil Liberties Union. The payoff is part of the city's
cave-in to the ACLU's lawsuit that aims to kick the Boy Scouts off public parkland
in San Diego.
ACLU
demands ouster of Boy Scouts: It wants use of
campground and public building in California terminated.
ACLU
Sued for Invasion of Privacy: Someone's suing the American
Civil Liberties Union, possibly the nation's most-litigious liberal group, for
invasion of privacy. The number of times the ACLU has dragged others into
court for every conceivable abrogation of political correctness would be hard
to assess. This time it's the ACLU that's on the other end of the litigation stick.
ACLU
Marks Day of Appreciation for Abortionists: The American Civil
Liberties Union is celebrating Sunday, March 10th, [2002] a "National Day of
Appreciation for Abortion Providers."
When
blue states attack: ACLU busybodies sued Johnson County, Iowa, demanding
that it remove a Ten Commandments monument that had been in a public courtyard a
since 1964. Within a year, the 2,500-pound granite monument was gone.
ACLU
targets U.S. Navy: While many graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy have
spent 2003 defending our nation in Iraq, in Afghanistan or on ships at sea, lawyers
for the American Civil Liberties Union have been plotting an act of cultural terrorism
against the Navy here at home. The ACLU is targeting the voluntary lunchtime prayer
that has been a tradition at the Naval Academy since its founding.
ACLU
Might File Suit To End Lunch Prayer. The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue
the U.S. Naval Academy unless it abolishes its daily lunchtime prayer, saying that some midshipmen have felt
pressured to participate. In a letter to the Naval Academy, Deborah Jeon, legal director for the ACLU of
Maryland, said it was "long past time" for the academy to discontinue the tradition. She said the practice
violates midshipmen's freedom to practice religion as their conscience leads them. The Naval Academy rejected
the ACLU's request that the prayer be eliminated.
Virginia's
"Minute of Silence" Law Stands . The U.S. Supreme
Court on Monday refused to interfere with a Virginia law requiring a
moment of silence in the commonwealth's government schools. The justices
rejected a challenge to that law, dashing the hopes of American Civil
Liberties Union, which argued against it. According to ACLU, the law
was "enacted specifically to facilitate and encourage school prayer."
The Truth
About the ACLU Part 1. Our so-called "Nation's Guardian of Liberty" has been working
relentlessly for over 80 years to weaken our nation's security, morality, and sovereignty. They
have fought to keep us free from our government's protection and safe from any moral compass that may
guide our actions. While the ACLU passes itself off as a champion of American civil rights, it
has discreetly waged a war against the very foundation on which this country was built.
The Truth
About the ACLU, Part 2. Why is it that virtually every issue the American Civil Liberties
Union tackles has to do with the general acceptance of moral deviancy? Why does this unelected
group of activists think they are allowed to force their politically correct, all-inclusive, "I'm OK,
You're OK" mentality on their fellow Americans?
Beware
the ACLU. In 1931, a congressional report of the Special
House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities stated:
The American Civil Liberties Union is closely affiliated with the communist movement
in the United States, and fully 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of communists
who have come into conflict with the law. It claims to stand for free speech, free
press, and free assembly; but it is quite apparent that the main function of the
ACLU is to attempt to protect the communists in their advocacy of force
and violence to overthrow the government, replacing the American flag by
a red flag and erecting a Soviet government in place of the republican form
of government guaranteed to each state by the federal Constitution.
Links:
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additional articles about the ACLU. None of them have anything good to say.
Stop the ACLU dot com.
Stop the ACLU dot org.
There is also an ACLU section
at The Center For Reclaiming America.
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