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2004-05-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

ACLU: Not American; Not Civil: and very selective in its interpretation of Liberity

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Posted by RWV 2004-05-02 11:28:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Nowhere does it say that judges can.

Methinks the A-Uncivil-LU and that moonbat judge need a remedial course in the Constitition. For some reason, when they scream about First Amendment rights, they skip over this, the first part. Liberty, my ass.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-02 12:08:45 PM|| 2004-05-02 12:08:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 here in San Diego, along with liberal judge Napoleon Jones, they've tried to get the Scouts kicked out of leases on City property in Balboa Park and on Fiesta Island. Totally hateful actions by gay activists and their liberal fellow travellers. I vote for a backlash soon

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-02 12:14:52 PM|| 2004-05-02 12:14:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think that at one time the ACLU served a very vital function. In the spirit of Voltaire they once embodied the quote about not ageeing with what you say but defending your right to say it. But now they seem to have been hijacked in the same way Amnesty International has.

Posted by cheaderhead 2004-05-02 4:59:27 PM|| 2004-05-02 4:59:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 would've been nice if I read it before commenting, huh?

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-02 5:02:39 PM|| 2004-05-02 5:02:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Aw, jeez, Frank, anybody can do that. Where's your sense of adventure? :-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-02 5:31:25 PM|| 2004-05-02 5:31:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I always read the comments before I read the article.

I find it puts me in the proper frame of mind before going in (usually pissed off *g*).

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-05-02 7:16:59 PM|| 2004-05-02 7:16:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 So anyway there really no reason for Nixon to worry once the shape of the table had been decided.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-02 8:51:53 PM|| 2004-05-02 8:51:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 In an Orwellian slip, Jordan Budd, the ACLU's legal director in San Diego, reportedly said that the Boy Scouts "could resolve the issue and stay on Fiesta Island and in Balboa Park if they changed their policy," i.e., if they abandoned their belief in God and opposition to homosexuality....

To be fair, the ACLU is not exactly demanding protection money from the scouts, but what they are saying is,

"Now see here chump, we own the lawyers and the judges in this town, see? We can rub you out if we wanted, make you go broke in endless litigation,see? Now, this doesn't have to get ugly. All you have to do is drop those crazy ideals that you were founded upon so long ago and everybody wins, yeah? You don't have to answer right away, we know how to find you when you're ready to be reasonable."

Posted by Dripping Sarcasm 2004-05-03 12:04:56 AM|| 2004-05-03 12:04:56 AM|| Front Page Top

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