do you believe the ACLU really have helped America?

Question

If so name two things that has been done by them for the betterment of the U.S. pepole.

If not please state why you feel that way.

please give good thought out answers. no hate the question guy please.

Answer 1

no,the ACLU has gone overboard years ago and that sucks for alot of Americans who see things differently.they have gotten so outrageous that the name is tainted.i see myself as pretty far off to the left but you need a new direction for them,they suck....

Answer 2

The ACLU has made the following decisions possible:

Turner v. Dept. of Employment Security, a Supreme Court case that struck down a law that made pregnant women ineligible for unemployment benefits during maternity leave.

In Peters v. Wayne-State University, women and men paid equal sums into the retirement plan, but women received lower monthly benefits than their male counterparts upon retirement.

These disparities were purportedly justified by women's longer projected life spans; individual women's contributions or benefits were calculated based on conclusions about how women on average would fare under such plans. The friend-of-the-court brief penned on behalf of WRP (a branch of the ACLU) helped procure a Supreme Court victory in . The principles established in these cases required all employer-sponsored insurance and pension plans to treat men and women equally.

Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971). In this case, the United States Supreme Court ruled for the first time ever that a law that discriminates against women is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. In reaching this result, the Court relied on a brief written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ACLU Women’s Rights Project’s first director. The Court rules unanimously that a state statute that provides that males must be preferred to
females in estate administration denies women equal protection of the law.

The ACLU has also made strides to abolish capital punishment in America. In the states, Illinois and then Maryland declared moratoriums on the death penalty. And in the courts, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that that executing people with mental retardation violates the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment. The Court also ruled that a death penalty trial must be resolved be a jury rather than a judge. Finally, a U.S. District Judge declared that the federal death penalty is unconstitutional.

The ACLU spearheaded the defeat of an effort by the Christian Coalition and others to overturn a Florida human rights ordinance that bans discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing, employment, lending and public.

Answer 3

They took the case with a view to get judicial explanation relating to the limitations of loose speech. The ACLU does certainly safeguard basic rights, in spite of the character of the speech or the gang that feels their speech is improperly infringed. In taking up the case, the ACLU does not propose the perspectives of those it is representing. It has defended/represented gays and defense force people as properly. My very own view is that those "Christians" are way out of line of their strikes. they are intruding upon the grief of pals and families obnoxiously and dishonoring the fallen infantrymen. besides, they are twisting the information: demonstrating against a central authority coverage isn't faith, it is political speech like another. The ACLU is faulty to sue on religious grounds. Theocrats like those focus on conflating faith with politics. they seem to be a disruptive, obnoxious, scheming discomfort in the butt. P.S. Christians, kindly notice that the ACLU helps this "church."

Answer 4

The ACLU exists to protect citizens from the government trampling on our rights. That's a GOOD thing.

And no matter that sometimes I am upset by the causes they support, it is imperative that ALL American citizens have the SAME protection, not just those with whom I agree.

This is expressed better than my own words, in this bit from "A Man For All Seasons":

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

Answer 5

The ACLU is dedicated to defending the Bill of Rights. What patriotic American would deny to uphold the Constitution?

The ACLU's Voting Rights Project has worked to protect the gains in political participation won by racial and language minorities since passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and is working to renew and restore these rights in three crucial sections of the VRA set to expire in 2007.

Freedom of speech is protected in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and is guaranteed to all Americans. Since 1920, the ACLU has worked to preserve our freedom of speech.

Answer 6

Every time the ACLU defends an American, they are defending the biggest principles of the united states, that everyone is innocent until proven guilty and that we have the right to pursue happiness. If those are not good enough for you, I don't know what is.

Answer 7

The ACLU works tirelessly to support and maintain our right to free speech and free press.

In highschool, I was asked to take off a shirt that had a political message on it that my conservative teacher and principal did not agree with. It was not profane nor was it in bad taste or disruptive. When I refused to remove the shirt, I used the ACLU website to give them documented cases that basically proved that they had no right to ask me to do that. I won the argument and continued wearing my shirt.

With the patriot act, especially, the ACLU has worked very hard to protect our rights to privacy against an invasive government.

I feel that any group who is truly working for the rights of all people, as the ACLU has done and is still doing, is a positive group worthy of my support.

Answer 8

I think you should understand that the ACLU isn't "anti-Christian." They're pro-civil rights. They will protect Christians as much as anybody. The fact that Christians have been pushing their beliefs on everyone else just shows that the ACLU has been protecting the rights of those who are being discriminated against.

Here are two things the ACLU has done to improve America:
1. Roe v. Wade (women's rights)
2. Brown v. Board of Education (desegregation of schools)

Answer 9

In two words.
HELL NO.
It's agenda is to rid religion (mostly Christianity) of ANY part of American society. Ten Commandment plagues? nowhere around government.
Cross? atheist Michael Landow and the ACLU sued city of San Diego for a cross on a cemetary entrance. They are offended by ANY form of Christianity.
We are to have freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. In simple words, my job or politics has no room for my faith is ludicrous. This has made America's foundation crumble.

Answer 10

No.

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ACLU SAYS U.S. SHOULD DISARM
..."I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
(Peggy Lamson, Roger Baldwin: Founders of the American Civil Liberties Union: A Portrait; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1976, p. 192.)

ACLU MONITORING MINUTEMAN VOLUTEERS
The communist "ACLU to monitor Minuteman Project
Making sure 'rights' of illegals not violated by civilian border patrol"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43220
This is from ACLU's website(aclu.org):
ACLU of Arizona to Provide Legal Observers During Controversial "Minuteman" Border Watch Program
http://aclu.org/ImmigrantsRights/ImmigrantsRights.cfm?ID=17864

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ACLU SUED TO STOP THIS LAW
ARIZONA's LAW PASSED BY THE VOTE OF PEOPLE
The measure would:
• Require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
• Require ID at polling places.
• Require verification of immigration status for public benefits.
• Require government workers to alert immigration officials of suspected undocumented immigrants seeking benefits. Workers who do not comply could face four months in jail and a $750 fine.
• Allow residents to sue state or local government to remedy immigration violations.