Who else would like to see a list of contributors to the ACLU?

Question

Is it public information? How do you get a copy of the list? I would like to see who supports this dispicable organization. I'd like know who I should boycott.

To Alan S: yes, it is ironical, isn't it? Except that they are not protecting our civil rights as you and their name imply. What they are really doing is giving THEIR RADICAL AND LIBERAL INTERPRETATION to the Bill of Rights to initiate SOCIAL CHANGE. Nothing they do is to protect my rights -- Nothing they do is to seek JUSTICE. Everything they do is to achieve an agenda of social change that I am 100% opposed.

Dear Pondering it: Thank you for your very civil and intelligent response. I will respond in kind. I am aware that the ACLU takes a few cases of the kind you mention, but the great preponderance of the cases are those which will have a legal impact that will "create" law and social change through radical interpretation of the law. I have seen no attempt from the ACLU to achieve justice, just social change. The Bill of Rights is a simple document that is not difficult to understand, but the ACLU has taken it through some amazing interpretive contortions to achieve a decision for the purpose of social change.

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Very good point. Any business that supports their twisted logic need to be run out of business!

Answer 2

I'm sorry that the mission of the ACLU is just too subtle for you to understand. If you actually looked at the list of cases they have taken over the years, you might discern a pattern: They are all about government versus an individual. In most cases, the ACLU is the only ally the individual has.

Fundamental rights need defenders, especially now. People whose speech consists of popular ideas don't need to defend their right to Freedom of Speech, so the ACLU's clients are often people with unpopular ideas. It does not mean that the members and contributors of the ACLU support those unpopular ideas: It means they believe that Freedom of Speech is worth defending.

A lot of people think the ACLU is against religion, because they have fought to keep prayer out of public schools. But one of their wins was a case in which a high-school student's personal statement of faith and credit to Jesus for her 4.0 GPA was censored out of the high school yearbook. The ACLU took her case and won, because they believe in Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech. The yearbook of that small school contained a statement from every student, and they were clearly the student's own words. The ACLU is only against imposition of religion by government officials (IE. school employees) or people in a position of authority, not at all against individual religious beliefs and expression.

For every "outrageous" ACLU case you hear about on Fox News or talk radio, do some checking into the real legal case and think about it carefully. They are there to defend one of our rights, when it would be so much simpler to just let that right slowly slip away. Our history is filled with brave men and women who fought and sometimes died to defend your rights. They are still worth defending.

Answer 3

Frankly I support the ACLU. To answer your question, you could always contact the organization and ask for a list of their donors, though as they are a private organization I don't know that they are required to make such information public.

Answer 4

I hope you get that list and exercise your civil liberty to boycott anyone that supports the very organization that is seeing those liberties are protected. That's almost the very definition of irony isn't it?

Answer 5

Ask and ye shall receive!

Answer 6

What a genius!