How can anyone support the ACLU?

Question

They have supported protests at soldier's funerals and the right of NAMBLA to assemble. Are these things you want America to accept?

Oh yeah, and the right of the Klan to assemble. Yes yes, the ACLU just loves the American people...give me a break

Answer 1

The ACLU, coupled with CAIR and other like-minded organizations, are the true fifth-column in our country.

I thank God that there exists proud and patriotic lawyers to whom fighting the ACLU is their calling

Answer 2

So yet another mental midget weighs in with the ACLU bashing.

So now listen and learn.

The ACLU supports the constitutional right to free speech and freedom of assembly. That means supporting your rights, NAMBLA's rights, the KKK's, or anyone else's. Whether their activities are popular or not. Many on this site you'd like to shut people like you up for instance. But the ACLU would be the first people to defend your right to bash them.

Your equating support for the free speech rights of certain unpopular groups amounts to condoning their activities, makes me feel that you have the cognitive reasoning skills of a 12 year old at best.

P.S. NAMBLA, KKK, NAACP, ARYAN NATIONS, you, me, anybody, has the constitutional right to freedom of speech, expression, and assembly as long as they are not breaking the law in doing so.

All the ACLU does is protect those rights. FOR EVERYBODY. And yes, even the people and groups you don't like.

Answer 3

That's a tough question, I don't necessarily support ACLU but I appreciate what they stand for....just like I don't support the NRA, both groups take extreme stances on various fronts. I think the reason these groups exist is to protect Americans rights and freedoms. Unfortunately at times their stances or actions seem absolutely ridiculous or completely offensive but when met with other opinions I think they help society meet somewhere in the middle. Think about a nation without groups like this and imagine the thought of an unarmed nation with no voice. You don't have to agree with everything they do but I think being a free nation with the right to bear arms and speak freely means sometimes you have to accept that other people are going to do and say things you don't agree with. For the record I am a member of neither group.

Answer 4

Actually they didn't support those groups, they supported those group's rights. Two different things. I find absolutely no good in the organization NAMBLA, but I do think they have the right to assemble, just like everyone else. The ACLU goes a little overboard, but they DON'T support groups, they just support rights.

Answer 5

Big business has consistently supported the ACLU.

For a start the ACLU is responsible for the Supreme Court granting Entity status to Corporations. Giving Corporations Citizen status. Empowering them with the protection of the Bill of Rights.

Polly Parroting Hate Radio does not make you an authority on ACLU case law.

GO big Red Go

Answer 6

The have the right to assemble i don't agree on where and when they assemble at all i think its disrespectful to the family and friends of fallin soldiers just following orders doing there job just like the rest of us....all in all they have the right to do what there doing weather its right or not is up to you as a person which thought to choose we must hold true to our rights other wise we have nothing

Answer 7

Because when only the popular point of view is allowed, we don't really have "rights" at all.

If the rights we have extend to all, then they truly are "inalienable" rights.

Interesting that you demonize for their defending rights of people to have odious opinions, but you seem to assert some sort of right to not be offended or to have anyone with a differing viewpoint.

Their stands do not extend to actual harmful actions by any groups, just their right to express ideas and to exercise rights that our Constitution extends to ALL Americans.

How can anyone not support universal rights being universal?

Answer 8

Yes. You can not pick and choose which parts of the Constitution to follow.
Until the Constitution is shredded yup, Yes I do.

I do not agree with NAMBLA or the protesting of the soldiers funeral, but if they are not doing anything illegally they have the right to do it.

Protesting the soldiers funerals is in bad taste and reprehensible but this is America and they have the right to do it.

NAMBLA is full of sicks but I would much rather have all the little pervs in one place for easy monitoring and a trail of who is a nasty little perv.

I do not have to agree with something or approve of it, to tolerate it.

Edit: The Klan does have the right peacefully assemble and they still do.

Answer 9

With your hard-earned, high-taxed money of course.

Just send them a check anytime, they won't know where to look 1st for whom they can liberate from moral government rules.

Remember, ACLU stands for

A ctivists for the
C ause of
L iberating the
U nlawful.

Uh, sarcasm is hard to convey through the Internet, but in case you didn't pick it up, I don't support the ACLU in any way.

Answer 10

It's easy if you understand what they are trying to do and if you don't buy into the right wing radio rhetoric. I suggest that people read the details of the two cases mentioned and not form an opinion based on what you read here or hear on talk radio. I haven't seen or heard the issues accurately presented in either forum.