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MSNBC commentator helps mark Utah ACLU milestone
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I thought it was also humorous that they described the Utah ACLU as, "the "state's preeminent voice in defense of religious liberty, privacy and freedom of expression..." We sure hear that voice when the LDS Church or RLDS Church is in the news.
Oh! YOU don't deserve having civil rights? The First Amendment says the government cannot infringe on MY right to free speech, nor can they infringe on my right to practice MY religion.
This is so GREAT! I'm going to propose that we make a law that YOU (Anonymous) has NO rights under the Bill of Rights (including gun ownership)...and you won't complain! Those silly rights keep getting in your way to suppress everyone else. Well, let's just legally suppress you.
Why do YOU hate America, Mrs Anonymous Parrot of Hannity-Limbaugh-Savage? My apologies if you actually are male, but only a Utah woman could be so nonthinking of what the Bill of Rights means...and how UNpopular speech is protected.
Anyway, I encourage people to watch the Rachel Maddow Show. I don't agree with all that she says or stands for, but she does engage in smart analysis and has great guests on the show. She's a great interviewer. Obama even gets some flack on her show.
They do not, and never will represent my points of view.
Thank you for admitting that!
That really is an oxymoron.
FYI - Come join the real world. Any organization looks out first and formost for their own followers. Do you think the LDS church goes out of their way to support movements or opinions that do not agree with their own?
This is so general that I am not following you. You sound like Rush or O'Reilly. All hate, no specifics.
Why for example was the rights of the citizens the right side to take, what about the rights of land owners?
Cause the ACLU fights Christian, conservative groups!
They do not, and never will represent my points of view.>>
Put up or shut up. I DARE you to find a belief of YOURS that they don't support your right to hold.
Dare ya.
You're a typical reactionary who speaks without listening, or even following the news.
The ACLU represents everyone: even Rush Limbaugh and the Mormon Church, two organizations I personally wish would go away. But I support their right -as does ACLU, with MY money -to support their own agendas.
You simply are uninformed if you think otherwise.
BTW, Rachel knocked it out of the park the other night. Kudos to the ACLU for a fantastic event. She was personable, relevant, funny and articulate.
While on rare occasion they defend the religious, they are usually against any thing religious. They fought the LDS Church over free speech on their own property (Main Street Plaza), however, they were silent in protecting pro-lifers free speech when exercised outside an abortion clinic on the public sidewalk.
The founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin, was a communist. I wish the ACLU would go away.
Of course it would.
If congress cannot prohibit prayer in school (and it is their job to legislate); how, did the Supreme Court do it?
The ACLU has taken our laws and used them to destroy the very thing they were intended to protect.
The constituion now hangs by a thread and the ACLU is sawing on that tiny thread.
I am lefty liberal type except that I have had no faith in Obama and I never bought into all the hype about him. His holding back the photographs, not going after the torturers and now continuing the military commissions has sealed the deal for me.
A kinder, gentler form of facism is still facism. Obama should be ashamed of himself. Rachel and the ACLU are our only hope to save this country from sliding further into a police state.
By his actions, Obama has virtually guaranteed that all of these attacks on our constitution will continue.
Of course it would.
If congress cannot prohibit prayer in school (and it is their job to legislate); how, did the Supreme Court do it?"
There is still plenty of prayers in school. No one prohibited it. The only thing that changed was that there was not prayer that the whole class participated in every day. Each student can pray whenever they want to. It just is not teacher led.
How would you feel if the teacher was Hindu and led your child in a Hindu prayer every day?
Wiccan?
How about praying to Mother Earth and Father Sky? Zeus and Hera?
That is why it has been changed. Teach your child how to pray silently for themselves and they will use it where and when they need to.
No one has taken away ANY religious freedom by stopping the class prayers. In fact, it has actually freed others to worship as they want.
then goes on to attack anyone who is not like her or thinks like her.
True stripes are always revealed in the end.
And while the ACLU does take an occasional case that is good, by and large, does not make up for all the evil and all that is destructive to america that they support.
Who says those good cases could not have been defended by someone else?
then goes on to attack anyone who is not like her or thinks like her."
What attack? Where did she attack anyone?
>> BTW, Rachel knocked it out of the park the other night. Kudos to the ACLU for a fantastic event. She was personable, relevant, funny and articulate<<
And that is exactly why the 'right' does not like her or Olbermann for that matter... Those who are Funny & articulate w/ contrary opinions scare them.
re: Garth | 5:29 p.m. May 18, 2009
I was thinking the glasses in the picture are very Mike Myers as Austin Powers.
Oh wait.
Maybe EVERYONE does not have the RIGHT WING FILTER which DEMONIZES EVERYTHING OUTSIDE THAT FILTER.
2 @ Religious Freedom: Actually, my favorite example is a Wiccan who worships sky-clad! LOL!
I love that people can't understand that in order to freely practice my religion, I first need to be protected from being forced to practice yours - and vice-versa!
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