I thought Ray's points about the ACLU deserved their own thread, so I did a "clip and ship" into a new topic.
From my perspective, and I'll expound more later, the ACLU's problem is that, for every legitimate action they take (see, eg, the Scopes Trial and Japanese Internment Camps--both of which are more than a half century ago), they take several more off the wall positions, in which they either invent rights out of whole cloth or serve as little more than a lobbying union for some of the worst criminals our country has (for example, terrorists and child molesters).
