The ACLU should be classified as a subversive organization by the U.S. government.
Older seniors who lived through the depression and World War II know the ACLU has been the spearhead of today’s political rebellion which began as a culture revolution.
By rationalizing the language in the Constitution, the ACLU has distorted its meaning in order to legislate its own secular agenda. By promoting an anti-Christian culture devoid of morality and ethics, they were in a position to pressure the Supreme Court to take prayer out of the schools in 1962. With recent appointments to the Supreme Court, they are now in a position to eliminate all references to Christianity in the government. Open support of America’s most ruthless enemies could follow.
With the help of well-meaning liberals, the ACLU has smothered the last flame of true freedom in the world.
Robert Blazier, Mesa
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ToothlessAZ posted at 7:02 am on Sun, Sep 26, 2010.
Lawyers in general have killed freedoms by linking manufactured morality and money. By the way, not everyone is a Christian, and not everyone wants to be. Christians certainly do not have a lock on morality -- they're just more willing to forgive themselves while committing crimes.
FarmerTom posted at 9:29 am on Sun, Sep 26, 2010.
Any child who wants to say a prayer before lunch is free to do so. But group prayer in public school is inappropriate--and illegal. The ACLU didn't make that law--the courts simply found that schools were in violation of the Constitution-- which protects MY children from YOUR religion. Associating morality with Christianity is ludicrous-- Just look at serial husbands Gingrich and Limbaugh... Plenty of Christians are weak in the morality dept, and plenty of non-Christians embody the epitome of morality...
Rich posted at 1:09 pm on Sun, Sep 26, 2010.
What's silly and not a little bit subversive is to suggest that a system devised by Deists, some of whom went out of their way to say they were not Christian, should have anything more to do with "Christian morality" than to allow Christians to practice it should they choose to.
Accuracy posted at 6:12 pm on Sun, Sep 26, 2010.
Today, it calls itself the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), but it’s founder, Roger Baldwin, stated: "We are for SOCIALISM, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... We seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the SOLE CONTROL of those who produce wealth. COMMUNISM is the goal." (Source: Trial and Error, by George Grant).
ACLU is a bunch of theocrats
Most of ACLU’s budget is "SUPPLIED BY THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER through the Federal program mandated by the Civil Rights Attorneys' Fee Awards Act of 1976. If the ACLU wins a case that involves a public institution, for instance, the organization collects the full legal fees of its attorneys even though those attorneys offered their services pro bono.
Most Americans remain unaware that the ACLU has been reaping millions of dollars in taxpayer-paid profits in lawsuits against veterans’ memorials, the Boy Scouts, the public display of the Ten Commandments and other symbols of our American heritage.
Even this week, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Point Pleasant Beach City Council in New Jersey, for reciting the Lord's Prayer before its meetings begin. Where the city council has opened its meetings with the prayer since the 1990s.
mvccd1000 posted at 11:49 pm on Sun, Sep 26, 2010.
I assume Mr. Blazier meant that the ACLU took away his freedom to cram his religion down my throat?
That's a good thing. Now if they'd only start supporting the 2nd amendment, I might actually be able to support them.
Irons1 posted at 6:45 am on Tue, Sep 28, 2010.
One word in response to this letter: baloney
CooperG posted at 8:21 pm on Tue, Sep 28, 2010.
Can someone list, specifically, what "freedoms" we've lost?
Don't worry, I'll wait.