For those of you who dont know what NAMBLA is?

Question

North American Man Boy Love Association.

Liberals fund and defend these people even though they publicy admit to pedophilia. Here is a link that I forgot to attach. How can filthy liberals call this a smoke screen and why do you defend them? Yet, you blame all Conseratives for a dirt bag like Foley. Granted, the guy is a disgrace but this is a double standard for liberals. After all, as the link states, YOU defend their rights...

http://www.gatago.com/seattle/politics/4635427.html

So typical.... You liberals cant offer a valid answer to a valid question.

Answer 1

The ACLU's reason for living.

Answer 2

what an idiotic article. there is a difference between the ACLU and liberalism. the ACLU focuses specifically on civil liberty issues. If anything, it is more of a libertarian organization than a liberal one. It supports absolute or near absolute rights to freedom of speech.

Secondly, nambla, despite the bad publicity it receives and the moral hysteria surrounding it, is a group focused on changing the law. of course it is a change that many people disagree with, but denying a group the freedom to express their arguments for a change in law is a sign of tyranny. if we are so sure that current age of consent laws are correct, then why should there be any fear when a group questions those laws? The right to freely and civilly participate in the law-making process is fundamental to democracy. Shutting up the opinions of those who want to make laws you disagree or change laws you agree with is not the mark of a free society.

I gave your question a valid answer, which was more than it deserved, since it wasn't really a valid question. It was polarizing rhetoric. Pedophilia is the moral hysteria of today, as you well know, and as Foley found out. Any mention of it, even a questioning of the law behind is enough to get people to lose control and get enraged. By connecting with this moral panic and then tying it to liberals, you aren't asking a legitimate question. You're appealing to people's emotional responses and suggesting that your political opponents are supporting what upsets people the most. Its a disgusting tactic.

Answer 3

Every citizen of this country is entitled to rights under the constitution, period. It doesn't guarantee you rights only if you think, act, feel, believe the way the republicans do.
Who's more hypocritical, the liberals who openly support the ACLU and defend the rights of every citizen, or the republicans who pretend to be appalled by pedophilia but are involved in it? Foley is your boy, your republican who swore to protect our kids. What did he do instead?
And before you go calling me pro pedophilia or anti American or any of the other usual crap that republicans spew. I am a survivor of child sexual abuse. I was raped and molested repeatedly. Yet I still stand by the constitution and defend the rights of every citizen. If you take one citizens rights away, it will be all to easy to take the next one, then the next, then the next. And before you know it, the government is taking away people's rights because they don't like the color of their hair or something as equally stupid. That is why I support the ACLU.
I do agree however that the NAMBLA is disgusting, but until they break the law their is nothing you or I can do about it.

Answer 4

I'm still wating for a link attaching liberals to _support & funding_ for Nambla.

"For us, it is a fundamental First Amendment case," John Roberts,
executive director of the Massachusetts branch of the ACLU, told Boston
Globe Wednesday. "It has to do with communications on a web site, and
material that does not promote any kind of criminal behavior
whatsoever."

How do you equate this with support and funding? You are a liar and beneath contempt.

From the ACLU website;

ACLU Statement on Defending Free Speech of Unpopular Organizations (8/31/2000)

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.

Answer 5

Liberals fund it and the ACLU (lib org.) defend it. Why is it that when the Foley thing came out the republicans (rightfully)publically denounced him and called for his resignation. Yet when Barney Frank was found to be running a prostitution ring out of his home, the libs defended him and of course, he is still there. That's the deference between us and them, we are intellectually honest, they are not.

Answer 6

Wow, another dirty Con who is ashamed. Ashamed of his party, ashamed of the filthy homosexual Foley for being a filthy homo. Are you sad con? Now you are trying desperately to do the bait a switch. Don't look at Foley, who is guilty as sin, look instead at this implied support that liberals have given to NAMBLA on this Conservative swing website. Sure, sure, we all believe you. Just be sure to wipe the lube off the poor boys butt crack when you are done with him, you filthy homo con. And congrats on loosing your house and senate this fall!

Answer 7

isn't it funny that the re-pugs always find the seeder things in life??they espouse everything that is moral then do the complete opposite.your party is a disgrace!! BTW nice political spin!!!

Answer 8

Yeah, I thought they were an African Revolutionary Movement. Oh well....

Answer 9

You seem to know alot about this NAMBLA. Are you member? Is it a Republican thing?

Answer 10

all in the name of frredom of speech