Thread: The ACLU: Lost without a compass

The ACLU: Lost without
a compass
Posted: July 9, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Alan Sears
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Some recent events would seem to indicate that the American Civil Liberties Union is lost in the woods without a compass. A moral compass, that is.

For the last five years, the ACLU has been fighting the federal departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development because of their support for the Boy Scouts of America – support that has taken the form of raising money for their national jamborees, allowing military personnel to lead Scout troops in their personal capacities, and providing access to government facilities for free.

Now, a federal judge has sided with the ACLU and ruled that a Virginia military base can no longer host a Scout jamboree after this year's event. Why? Because the Scout oath pledges duty to God – a supposed violation of the so-called "separation of church and state."

The Boy Scouts of America is a federally chartered patriotic organization that's recognized by Congress – one the Pentagon has been proud to be involved with for the last 50 years. The DOD and HUD are strongly defending the Scouts' right to meet on military bases and receive funding.

But the whole ordeal shows us something ugly about the ACLU – its single-minded obsession with attacking the Boy Scouts of America. Not only do the Scouts ask their leaders to pledge their loyalty to God – always a no-no in the ACLU's eyes, no matter how appropriate that might be for military troops and their children in harnessing aggression with restraint, particularly in wartime – but they have the audacity to conduct their business by a set of moral standards that runs counter to the ACLU's. Namely, men who are openly and actively engaging in homosexual behavior are barred from leading Scout troops.

I'm referring, of course, to the landmark 2000 case Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, for which the Alliance Defense Fund funded friend-of-the-court briefs and assisted the Scouts' lawyers, and in which the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that the Scouts have a constitutional right to free, expressive association. But you'd never know it from reading about them in most of the mainstream media: Ever since that decision was handed down, the Scouts have been vilified as one of the most bigoted, hateful, intolerant groups in America. And the ACLU has been leading the charge against them, when in fact, the principles held by 3.2 million Boy Scouts – building character; training to become active, responsible citizens; and developing personal fitness – are a lot more like the values held by the rest of America than those held by the ACLU.

Whose values, then, are like the ACLU's? Not Virginia's. In addition to wanting the Scouts off a military base there, the ACLU is also attacking the state for enacting a law that keeps juvenile boys and girls from running around hotels or campgrounds naked without a parent or guardian in attendance.

The ACLU's views do seem more in line with the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which fights to lower the legal age of consent so that sex between grown men and adult boys can become more "acceptable" to mainstream society. That may never happen – but the ACLU has signaled such a change is acceptable to them. Its lawyers stepped in to defend NAMBLA in 2000 after the group was named in a lawsuit against two homosexual men who frequented the group's website – and who then raped and murdered a 10-year-old Massachusetts boy.

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But a lack of moral standing is only one problem the ACLU has in its latest fight with the Scouts; the other is that they have very little legal grounds to challenge them. In fighting to have the military end its involvement with the Scouts, the ACLU chose the most humorous of excuses – taxpayer standing. This is the organization that has never met a government expenditure to advance its agenda it didn't like. ACLU attorneys are not representing a child who was allegedly abused by a scoutmaster, one who was denied entry or any other kind of direct injury claim. They're simply saying that taxpayer dollars were used for character building they don't like. So not only is their case without merit – it was brought on grounds the ACLU itself disagrees with on other facts (for example, its support of public funding for abortion).

But, alas, that's to be expected of a group that stands for nothing but absolute autonomy. Behave in the most hedonistic ways imaginable, the more immoral the better, and the ACLU will defend you to the death. The problem is that kind of self-centeredness doesn't do much for society.

But the Boy Scouts – and their Christian values – do.

Alan Sears, a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan administration, is president and CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund, America's largest legal alliance defending religious liberty through strategy, training, funding and litigation.

They would be lost with a compass.

To most Americans the ACLU is irrelevant and out of touch.

Cockroaches are more popular.

Iam telling you what they need to brand the ACLU a terrorist organization. They are undoing our government though the courts and they know its the only way they can remove the freedoms that we have.

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I think they are just total idiots that truly believe they are right, hence it is useless to try to change them. The ACLU and dopy actor Mike Farrell (Mash's BJ Hunnycutt) have been trying to free a killer named Kevin Cooper. Below is part of an article stating the evidence against cooper. He claims he's a victim of circumstance and evedince was planted, you decide.

Between 9:00 and 9:30 p.m. on June 4, the Ryen Family and a friend of their children, 11-year-old Chris Hughes, left a barbeque to return to the Ryen home, where Chris was spending the night. The next morning, Chris's mother became worried when her telephone calls to the Ryen home were not answered. When Chris's father went to the house to investigate, he found the doors locked and their station wagon missing. From the back of the house looking through a sliding glass door, he saw the bodies of his son and Doug, Peggy, and Jessica Ryen lying on the floor. He then kicked in the kitchen door and found everyone except eight-year-old Josh dead.

The victims died from numerous chopping wounds later determined to have been inflicted by a hatchet or axe and stabbing wounds inflicted by both a knife and an ice pick. Later that day, bloodstained items were found in the vacant house (Next door to the Ryens) where Cooper had stayed, including a button from a prison jacket identical to the one he was wearing when he escaped. A police criminologist also found evidence of blood on the carpet, in the bathroom sink and in the shower along with Cooper's footprint. Hairs from the shower drain and the bathroom sink were consistent with those from two of the victims.

A bloodstained hatchet from the vacant house was later found near the Ryen home. The sheath from the hatchet was found on the floor of the bedroom where Cooper had slept. Some hunting knives and at least one ice pick were also missing from the vacant house. A strap fitting one of the missing knives was found in the same bedroom. Shoe prints were found in the Ryen home and the vacant house next door matching the unique pattern of shoes issued exclusively to prison inmates. The prints indicated shoes of Cooper's size and brand that he had recently received in prison.

While most of the blood samples taken at the murder scene were determined to have come from the victims, one sample was conclusively determined to have come from a black person with the same blood group as Cooper. The sample was too small to determine if it was Cooper's rare blood type.

The Ryen station wagon was found several days after the killings in a church parking lot in Long Beach. Hairs found in the car matched those of Cooper. Tobacco issued exclusively to prison inmates, which Cooper smoked, was found in the vacant house and in the Ryen's station wagon.

Two days after the murders, Cooper befriended a couple in Mexico and joined them on a boat trip up the California Coast. Weeks later, Cooper was arrested on a boat off of Santa Barbara after the woman reported that he had raped her at knife point, threatening to kill her if she woke her husband. Following his arrest, several items taken from the vacant house in Chino were discovered on the boat.

At his trial, Cooper admitted staying in the Chino house but denied any involvement in the Ryen murders. Josh Ryen, who miraculously survived his injuries, testified that he awoke on the night of the murders after hearing his mother's screams. He remembered being hit from behind when trying to investigate but was unable to identify his attacker.

I guess according to the ACLU in order to find anyone guilty they must confess!!!!

I never knew they had a compass.....moral one that is. They always seem to care only about criminals and whether their rights were violated. I never ever remember the ACLU caring one iota about the victum and their rights. I think the ACLU must consist of members of the mofia, gays, left wing politicians, some of the NOW crowd, and lawyers who could not make in out in the lawyerly world on their own. Whenever I see any of them on tv, they all look like some older type hippy rejects from the 60's. I don't think any respectable employer would hire them so they go to their own little group and rebel against society and anything good making life worse for the rest of us law abiding legal citizens. They are nothing more than just a bunch of rebellious bullies mad at the world.

If they ever found a compass, they would not know what to do with it.

Can you tell I am venting??? LOL