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Last date of Archived news is May 10, 2013. Contains archives from January 2007 to May 2013.

  1. The ACLU wants sex offenders near your children [1]
  2. The ACLU has just announced a $335 million fund-raising campaign intended to strengthen its operations in "heartland" states. In most cases, it will publicly attack in court and out, positions on issues such as "immigrants' rights, gay rights, police brutality and opposition to the death penalty." [2]
  3. ACLU and the Federal Government Support Invasion of Illegal aliens in Washington [3]
  4. The ACLU v. Good Judges [4]
  5. The ACLU is suing to deprive public schools the ability to improve achievement through use of some single-sex classes. Separating boys and girls is known to improve achievement in some circumstances, and is being used by 392 public schools. This lawsuit is in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.[5]
  1. ACLU Attitudes Infest the Ford Foundation [7]
  3. A Massachusetts jury completely acquits a pro-family leader for an alleged assault of an ACLU activist who was a counter-demonstrator at a pro-family rally.[10] Are the homosexual activists losing their grip on Massachusetts?
  4. ACLU Should Get a Clue Human Events [11]
    "Is there any organization so consistently anti-American, uncivil, anti-liberty and disunifying?"
  5. Unions Frantic: Will School Choice Referendum Prevail in Utah? Human Events
    The National Education Association (NEA), Utah Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the ACLU and the local NAACP chapter are working together to attack school choice.
  7. Judge sides with AFL-CIO, ACLU in putting freeze on Department of Homeland Security Plan to Warn Employers About Hiring Illegals. Fox News: [12] and Washington Post [13]
  11. US Cities Suing Street Gangs in Latest Tactic to Fight Drugs, Crime. The ACLU objects. Fox News [16]
  12. A Perception Issue? Revolving door between the American Civil Liberties Union and National Public Radio. NewsBusters:[17]
  13. ACLU Wants the US to Lose the War on Terrorism [18] Jpatt
  14. A Guide to the Political Left: Check out its articles on the ACLU Jpatt
  15. ACLU Doesn't Want to Pay Taxes; Expects Churches to Pay Them [19] Jpatt
  16. A judge has upheld the issuance of Indiana license plates bearing the message "In God We Trust," dismissing a constitutional challenge by the ACLU of Indiana [20] Jpatt
  17. ACLU Is AWOL On Free Speech [21] Jpatt
  18. ACLU Aiding America's Enemies, Again [22] Jpatt
  19. The ACLU assembles a terrorist legal defense force that includes former Attorney General Janet Reno and former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director William Webster [23] Jpatt
  20. America, 1. ACLU, 0 - Supreme Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance Program. Warrantless surveillance violates the Fourth Amendment. [24][25]
  21. The American Civil Liberties Union lost a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue. Associated Press article at Fox News. [26] Jpatt
  22. Court Ends Bible Distribution in School [27]
    Guess who sued for that ruling? The ACLU, of course. Jpatt
  23. The ACLU strikes again: it just persuaded the Ninth Circuit to forbid Congress from transferring a cross to private owners who would preserve it in the Mojave Desert, in Buono v. Kempthorne [28] Is there no end to the hostility to Christianity? Jpatt
  24. ACLU deceit in its "'talking points' in case Uncle Harry asks why the ACLU hates Christmas so much: Tell him 'we work year-round to ensure that everyone in America has the freedom to practice their own religion (or no religion) and to keep the government out of religion.'" [29] In fact, the ACLU destroys "the freedom to" pray in the classroom, and its "keep the government out of religion" means atheism at the expense of overwhelmingly religious taxpayers. Jpatt
  25. The ACLU strikes again! This time it has enlisted the Liberal Courts to have banned the private distribution of Bibles in public school. The federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this ruling for the ACLU. Doe v. S. Iron R-1 Sch. Dist., 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 19818 (8th Cir. Aug. 21, 2007). Jpatt
  26. The Seventh Circuit just ruled against the ACLU by overturning "a lower court's decision that sectarian prayers on the floor of the (Indiana) House violated the constitutional separation of church and state."[30] Jpatt
  28. ACLU Opposes Three-Strikes Law [32]
    In its objection, the ACLU ignores both the economic and personal costs of crimes committed by career criminals if left on the streets.
  29. Want sex books within easy reach of your children? The ACLU forced an Idaho public library to do just that: [33]
  30. Separate classes in a New Jersey public school result in "an increase in 'healthy' competition between the boys and girls."[34] The liberal ACLU has sued to stop a similar program in Kentucky, which would deprive students of this benefit.
  32. Catholic Bishops sued by the ACLU. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides federal grant money to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to help the victims of human trafficking. The ACLU contends that the money is misused because none of it goes toward abortions or contraception. [36]
  33. "Officials ordered to stop prayer at schools," thanks to liberal censorship of prayer in the form of another ACLU lawsuit.[37]
  35. "Obama refuses to retreat on closing Guantanamo," despite 90-6 vote in the U.S. Senate against him. Instead, Obama met with the ACLU, which then criticized him.[39]
  36. Another victory for the First Amendment: When it came to reciting the Lord's Prayer, the ACLU said Florida's Pace High School couldn't, and sued to make sure it didn't happen. Well, too bad: 400 grads stood up in their ceremony and said it anyway, to a cheering audience: [40] [41]
  37. "Nearly 400 graduating seniors at Pace High School stood up in protest against the ACLU and recited the Lord's Prayer during their graduation ceremony"[42]
  38. "Prayer offered for Kennedy at Capitol" by the chaplain for the House of Representatives: "Lord, You knew his hopes were unquenchable, full of immortality. You knew his strengths and his limitations. He knew You, Lord."[43] A bit odd, isn't it, to have a government-sponsored prayer for a liberal champion of the censorship of classroom prayer? Why isn't the ACLU objecting to this prayer? Because liberals have double standards.
  39. ACLU Accuses Fresno, California Professor of Teaching "Religious Bias" Because He Told Students The Truth. [44]
  42. The liberal ACLU strikes again: "the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is contesting a new mandatory school uniform policy for all students in Woonsocket’s public schools." [47] Why doesn't the ACLU sue over how public schools produce illiterates and vandals instead?
  43. Bah Humbug: The ACLU clamps down on schools celebrating Christmas in Tennessee. [48]
  44. Hospital loses its Catholic affiliation after performing an abortion. Bishop Thomas Olmsted's decision sparked outrage from the ACLU, "The dioceses cannot be permitted to dictate who lives and who dies in Catholic-owned hospitals." [49] Unlike the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, the diocese believes that all people are deserving of life.
  45. Liberal groups move against Utah's illegal immigration reforms. Suit filed by the ACLU on behalf of several Soros' funded groups: National Immigration Law Center, SEIU, La Raza and others. [50]
  46. Victory against liberal censorship: Florida school district tosses draconian ACLU prayer ban into the trash can where it belongs. "We are pleased that freedom has been restored to Santa Rose County," said Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law. "It is appropriate to celebrate these restored freedoms as America celebrates Independence Day. From the beginning we contended that this consent decree went too far and swallowed up the rights of teachers, staff, students and members of the community. The Constitution is not some relic that can be discarded at will."[51]
  47. Atheists prepare for the difficult road ahead: Sunday marks the start of what Christians call Advent. [52] "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman Attention all atheists and the ACLU: If you whine and kvetch about Christmas manger scenes and engage in other "War on Christmas" activities, YouTube Christian Shockofgod and his fans are liable to double or triple their Question evolution! campaign activities![53] Happy holidays!
  49. Even the ACLU and other major leftist organizations have slammed Obama for signing the NDAA with its detainee provisions. [55] Note to those left-leaning liberals: you voted for it!
  50. Some public schools have drifted so far to the Left that even the ACLU is objecting: "ACLU: Wolcott High School Wrong To Outlaw Anti-Gay Shirt." [56] But what did the ACLU think would happen after the censorship of Christianity?
  51. Yes, you can legitimately blame liberals for the Connecticut school shooting. Why? Months before Adam Lanza played with guns for the last time, the liberal ACLU STOPPED Connecticut Senate Bill 452, which they claimed would have infringed on the rights of the mentally ill without their consent. [57] So, we have a liberal organization saying you can't forcibly medicate someone who's nuts without their consent. As opposed to killing children without their consent?
  52. "ACLU drops challenge to Kansas abortion law," after a court had issued a key ruling against the attempt to overturn the good law. [58]