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.
Clearly, supporting Westboro in its efforts to fight for the freedom to picket funerals and explain how Jesus is killing American soldiers as retribution for America's tolerance of homosexuality is truly, certainly a major crusade to destroy Christianity and to promote the gay agenda.
The ACLU happens to understand that the freedom of speech deserves to be protected for everyone, even the people we don't agree with. That's the most American principal of all; the simple fact is that any given ACLU member is far more American than you will ever be, White Tiger.
Roger Nash Baldwin became head of the National Civil Liberties Bureau (NCLB) in 1917. An independent outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism, the Bureau opposed American intervention in World War I. The NCLB provided legal advice and aid for conscientious objectors and those being prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 or the Sedition Act of 1918. In 1920, the NCLB changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union, with
In the year of its birth the ACLU was formed to protect aliens threatened with deportation, along with U.S. nationals threatened with criminal charges by U.S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer for their communist or socialist activities and agendas[4] (see Palmer Raids). It also opposed attacks on the rights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and other labor unions to meet and organize.
In 1940, the ACLU formally barred communists from leadership or staff positions, and would take the position that it did not want communists as members either. The board declared that it was "inappropriate for any person to serve on the governing committees of the Union or its staff, who is a member of any political organization which supports totalitarian dictatorship in any country, or who by his public declarations indicates his support of such a principle."[5] The purge, which was led by Baldwin, himself a former supporter of Communism, began with the ouster of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a member of both the Communist Party of the USA and the IWW.[6]
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union
And a short history of their horrible actions in the protection of American rights:
1920 Opposed attacks by AG on trade union’s right to meet and organize.
1920 Secured release of people jailed for anti-war sentiments
1925 Scopes Trial. Fought anti-evolution legislation.
1933 long anti-censorship battle which resulted in the lifting on the ban of James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
1939 Took on and won against mayor of NJ City who claimed he had the right to deny free speech to anyone he liked.
1942. Opposed the forced relocation of Japanese Americans
1950s Decade long battle against Loyalty Oaths
1954 In its commitment to racial equality joined the NAACP to end racial segregation in public schools
1973 Abortion Decriminalized
1980s Active in voting rights
1981 Once again fought Creationism in
They continue to fight for the protection of all Americans, most recent issues include.
I can see why someone like you, White Tiger, would be afraid of all these freedoms.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK--In the United States Supreme Court over the past few years, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken the side of a fundamentalist Christian church, a Santerian church, and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. 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. In representing NAMBLA today, our Massachusetts affiliate does not advocate sexual relationships between adults and children.
What the ACLU does advocate is robust freedom of speech for everyone. The lawsuit involved here, were it to succeed, would strike at the heart of freedom of speech. 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.