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r3x29yz4a said:
Why all the hatred for the ACLU? The American Civil Liberties Union is a good concept that defends rights. Do they get a little silly in who they defend sometime? Yeah.
Uh, yeah. Good concept is all it is.
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In 1925, the ACLU persuaded John T. Scopes to defy Tennessee's anti-evolution law in a court test. Clarence Darrow, a member of the ACLU National Committee, headed Scopes' legal team. The ACLU lost the case and Scopes was fined $100. The Tennessee Supreme Court later reversed the fine, but not the conviction.
pushed science over religion in the classroom.
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In 1942, a few months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the ACLU affiliates on the West Coast became some of the sharpest critics of the government's policy on enemy aliens and U.S. citizens descended from enemy ancestry. This included the relocation of Japanese-American citizens, internment of aliens, prejudicial curfews (Hirabayashi v. United States, 1943), and the like.
The U.S. government has formally apologised for the camps since then.
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In 1954, the ACLU played a role in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, which led to the ban on segregation in U.S. public schools.
Okay, I can see why you don't like them. But some of us don't mind black people sitting next to us in the classroom. Crazy liberals that we are, huh?
Yeah, they've had other cases, like I said they sometimes go after silly causes, but I like the idea of a group that is set up to protect our rights. I like the idea of a group that fights to preserve the seperation of Church and State and the rights to free speech.
Last edited by the G-man; 2005-11-23 4:20 PM.
