Comments about ‘MSNBC commentator helps mark Utah ACLU milestone’

Isn't Rachel great! She somehow finds a way to be proud of being so different than most in her audience but, at the same time, defends her right and her audience's right to maintain that difference. Who can argue with that?

I wish I could have attended. Excellent motives by an excellent organization.

The ACLU is a joke. It's suppose to be the AMERICAN CLU...that means they should protect the civil liberties of AMERICANS, not every illegal alien that makes their way into America.

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.

The ACLU is the most un-American organization on the planet. I'm embarrassed they even exist in Utah. They do not represent me, they do not service civil rights or civil liberties. The ACLU is a money and legal machine that sucks in millions of dollars so they can sue the pants off any and everybody. What a disgusting organization.

...so why don't you think it would defend YOU?

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.

Wow! What a mindless rant against women and talk radio. Wouldn't America be great if we went back to the good old days, where we got our information from the leftist 'alfabet' media and respected women.

Why are the harshest critics of the ACLU on this comment page "Anonymous"?

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.

Love this woman! Not only is she one of my role models, my 12 year old twins (boy and girl) love her too. Intelligence and that killer wit. Rache's fantastic!

The ACLU only protects you if you agree with their agendas. To have their keynote speaker celebrating "odd" is a joke.

They do not, and never will represent my points of view.

If the "good old days" are the 'alfabet' [sic] media, you're saying that the MSM **is** Fox News and Rush Limbaugh?

Thank you for admitting that!

The ACLU is an organization that does everything it can to fight against religious freedom. support leftist causes and degrade our national security. It's amazing that ANYONE thinks they represent ANYTHING that's praiseworthy or of good report. One ACLU lawyer even resigned from the ACLU because he couldn't stomach the way the organization attacks religion anymore.

I'll take it that you don't support BYU's right to monitor off campus housing. ACLU did.

ACLU is a dang joke. Don't tell me they represent me when they fight AGAINST so many things I believe in. Boo you ACLU.

I'm confused. If they don't represent your views, why are you so bitter that they would never defend your views?

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?

WE surround THEM.

Whenever I see her on TV, I want to throw a brick at my TV.

The ACLU defeated the right of churches to send their missionaries door to door. Even after this, I still support the ACLU.

All of you who are totally against the ACLU, would you please give me a few cases that they have represented that turned you against them.

This is so general that I am not following you. You sound like Rush or O'Reilly. All hate, no specifics.

Their track record is all you need to see. Take for example the fight for the Main street ACLU vs LDS church.

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!

The ACLU was once a good orgnization, but has become corrupt like most orginzations whose agenda is not in the public interest but their own selfish desires for their own gain. Shame on you.