Would the ACLU ever defend a Christians rights or a Christian ideologue?
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They have given lip service to some issues where Christians were being unfairly treated. Not using its big guns like it does for liberal causes. It behooves me to see this group go, mainly, unchallenged in its representation of groups like NAMBLA. Why do they still wield so much clout in the public arena?
EDIT: Pfo, you're missing the point. If the ACLU defended the teacher in this case, they fought AGAINST Christians. The school had a perfect right to set moral standards for their faculty. If she knew that the school had such standards, she should have quit and not had to have been fired. But she certainly had no grounds for a suit.
I believe they already have.
Check it out here: http://www.aclufightsforchristians.com/...
Nope. Unless it was some weird sect that wanted to do human sacrifices or something.
Sure--they do it about once in a million cases so leftys can talk about how even-handed the ACLU is.
They have, so the answer to your uninformed question is yes.
I know of a good case where they did, I posted this earlier:
A female teacher at a private school was fired because she got pregnant and did not have a husband. She wanted to keep the child, and the school claimed she did not represent the types of morals they want to instill in its children. The ACLU took up her case to defend her.
The ACLU defends all consititutional violations on all sides of the political spectrum. I hope you never need their assistance. Then again, if we have a few more years of neocon control, there will be no rights left to defend.
Only if they were forced to.
You know. I've lived on this planet for 42 years and not once have I heard of the ACLU fighting in a high profile case for any christian organization.
Maybe some small little piddly cases but nothing that makes the evening news.
Absolutely. They defend right wing extremists (neo-Nazis, the KKK, militias). They defend Christian ideologues (and other Christians) with equal vigor.
I think the reason that the ACLU doesn't handle many cases for Christians is simply that most Christians don't approach them for help. So, rather than it being the ACLU's attitudes, it is the misconceptions of people who have a genuine case but think justice is elusive.
Of course - it has, many times. Here's a list of some cases:
http://www.aclu.org/religion/govtfunding...
Are there some Christians whose rights are being violated and want the ACLU to help them out? They couldn't find anyone out there to protect their right to thump Bibles in every school and public building?
Seems to me like the Christians who actually believe in all of the Bill of Rights have most of the government already on their side.
The ACLU vigorously defends the 1st Amendment rights of everybody, regardless of the ideology they're expressing. What they will not defend are Christians who illegally discriminate, attempt to impose their morals on others, dictate the personal values of others, or otherwise use coercion under the pretense of freedom of religion. A public school teacher who's a Christian, for instance, does not have a right to proselytize in her classroom because she's using publically-funded government resources and also because the students there don't have a choice to walk out if they disagree with her.
The only part of the Constitution that the ACLU won't stand up for is the 2nd Amendment because they follow a weird socialist interpretation of it, but that's a different issue.
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Sorry, Matt, but so-called "intelligent design" is merely Creationism wearing a new suit.
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Yes but only on their terms. But when it comes to one of the biggest issues in our time, (evolution Vs. inteligent design) they have made their worldview known. They support the indoctrination of atheistic philosophy in taxpayer schools.
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