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Showing Original Post only (View all)Do you support the work of the ACLU? [View all]
The American Civil Liberties Union says on their website:
The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country
Note: I've been a "card carrying" member for almost my entire adult life and thats a number of decades now. I operate on the premise all "Liberals" proudly make that claim as well, sing their praises and certainly defend and support their work. But since the Snowden revelations, it occurs to me that my assumptions may no longer be based on reality, hence this poll.
Here's a list of the groups and/or issues which the ACLU dedicates their work and energy to:
Capital Punishment
Criminal Law Reform
Disability rights
Free Speech
Human Rights
Immigrant's Rights
National Security
Technology and Liberty
Voting rights
Women's Rights
LGBT Rights
Prisoners Rights
Religious Freedom
Reproductive Freedom
31 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Time expired | |
I support the ACLU, wholly agree with the principles of the organization and their work. | |
26 (84%) |
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I do not support the ACLU and do not agree with their principles of the organization or their work. | |
0 (0%) |
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Somethings the ACLU fights for I support, Somethings I do not.. | |
4 (13%) |
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other | |
1 (3%) |
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0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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Also, dumb idea, lets say 95% of the time you like their side of it. Why not support them? n-t
Logical
Mar 2014
#10
Are you OK with banning a corporation from publishing a book during election season
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#71
They do take on things that I find really hard to support or am in complete disagreement
2banon
Mar 2014
#16
My guess would be that this is because the ACLU supports the Citizens United decision,
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#22
My take on that, simplistic, but I think, to the point: If Money Equals Speech, then the
MADem
Mar 2014
#31
Well, to be fair, free speech is great, except when people use it to say mean things (nt)
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#33
Or when people get unauthorized jollies from looking at consenting adults nude.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#35
ACLU has two separate entities. One for Lobbying, and one for Protection/Litigation work
2banon
Mar 2014
#25
I support their mission in principle; in actual fact they occasionally take on a case that
MADem
Mar 2014
#19
I don't, either.. However I understand that the principle of free speech is more antithetical to
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#64
Certainly. In the public square, anyway, the solution to speech is more speech. nt
MADem
Mar 2014
#65
Oh yeah. I mean, those kinds of arguments don't apply for instance to DU, right.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#66
I didn't see 2nd Amendment rights on the list. We don't have a cafeteria style Bill of Rights
badtoworse
Mar 2014
#21
There'd be no need for an NRA if gun control zealots weren't pushing ever more restrictive gun laws.
badtoworse
Mar 2014
#40
There is a point at which "strict regulation" of rights becomes denial of rights
badtoworse
Mar 2014
#45
There needs to be restrictions on all rights, but only the minumum necessary.
badtoworse
Mar 2014
#48
Blowing off the ACLU over their 2nd Amend. stance is the very essence of cafeteria-style behavior.
Paladin
Mar 2014
#58
I support them and I'd like to see them put in charge of the NSA and CIA.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#41