ACLU In The News

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Teen curfew spurs debate

LANDIS, N.C. -- Many parents impose curfews on their children to ensure they are home safely during the evening hours. But one Rowan County town has taken that concept a step further.

Landis Police Chief Charles Childers says the town’s youth protective ordinances will help keep kids out of harm’s way.

“It's designed for the ones who are out here on the streets, walking the streets, with nothing else to do at that time of morning,” he said.

The American Civil Liberties Union says teen curfews are unconstitutional and that they criminalize normal and otherwise lawful behavior. The organization says there are plenty of legitimate reasons why teens might need to be out past curfew.

Lynn McCredie, of the Landis Dairy Bar, disagrees. She has seen her share of overnight vandalism and hopes a curfew will keep her business safe.

“There's so much stuff they can get into, and when businesses close, it kind of entices them,” she said.

Most curfews include provisions for teens who work. Parents can be fined or jailed if their children violate curfew regularly or if the parent knowingly allows their children to violate the ordinance.

Charlotte, Albemarle, China Grove, Spencer and Granite Quarry have some type of curfew in place, while Gastonia, Concord, Salisbury and Kannapolis do not.

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 Harm Reduction: ACLU Wins Victory in Connecticut Needle Exchange Case 6/2/06


Injection drug users in Connecticut can breathe a bit easier this week. In a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union Drug Law Reform Project, a federal judge has ruled that protections she previously granted to people possessing needles should be expanded to include other injecting equipment as well.

In 2001, acting on complaints of harassment and persecution by drug users and needle exchange workers in Bridgeport and citing the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure, the ACLU won an order blocking the Bridgeport Police Department "from searching, stopping, arresting, punishing or penalizing... any person based solely upon that person's possession of up to thirty sets of injection equipment."

But as she prepared to hand down her latest ruling Thursday, US District Court Judge Janet Hall complained that "my order may well have been written in invisible ink." On Thursday, she chastised the Bridgeport police for failing to diligently follow her earlier order, but rejected an ACLU motion to find the department in contempt. She did, however, expand the protection in the earlier order to include injection equipment such as cotton balls and items used to cook drugs.

"The message of this much-needed ruling should be heard nationwide," said Adam Wolf, an attorney with the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. "Public health should be placed above punitive posturing. Law enforcement should be chiefly concerned with the public welfare, which is markedly increased by respecting the rights of needle exchange participants and acknowledging the vital importance of these exchanges to public safety."

The Bridgeport Syringe Exchange, in operation for more than a dozen years now, is one of around 200 such programs in the country. Every scientific study of needle exchanges has found that they are an effective way of reducing the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C.

"The police can contribute to public health and safety by supporting efforts that engage injection drug users in disease prevention programs that simultaneously serve as conduits to treatment for addiction," said Robert Heimer, PhD, a professor at Yale School of Public Health and a nationally renowned expert on the emergence and prevention of infectious diseases. "In the long run, this is the only reliable means to decrease addiction at the community level."

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Boo Hoo: Sex Offenders Are Restricted

The Indiana Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that an ordinance in the city of Indianapolis is “too vague and impossible to uphold.”

Ken Falk, the ACLU of Indiana’s legal director, said the law is unworkable because it is virtually impossible to travel the streets and highways of Marion County without passing within 1,000 feet of a public playground or other prohibited site.

    “You can’t get from point A to point B in Indianapolis without being in violation.” SOURCE

The ACLU represents 6 individuals which includes child molesters and rapists. The Plaintiffs filed the suit on Wednesday of this week.

    The ordinance was approved May 15 and took effect immediately. It carries fines of up to $2,500.

    The law includes an exception that permits sex offenders to visit those sites as long as they are with another adult who is not a convicted sexual offender.

Well now, too bad for them huh. Here’s the truth campers. If these people would have controlled themselves and not committed the crimes in the first place, they could travel where they pleased when they pleased. But, they were convicted by a jury of their peers beyond a shadow of a doubt for committing these horrible offenses.

The city has a responsibility to protect its citizens - especially children. And if you ask me, giving these perverts an exemption if they are accompanied by another adult who has not been convicted of a sex crime is giving them too much.

Now I can see one of their points and only one. If the offender is in a car traveling from point A to point B, there should be no violation unless they stop at a place frequented by children. If they should happen to be traveling down a street on their way to work and pass by a park and are stopped for a traffic violation, I don’t believe that they should be cited. But in the same respect, I believe that the Officer who pulled the offender over should keep an eye on that individual until they clear the restricted area.

Sex offenses against children have the highest percentage of recidivism and restrictions on these individuals aren’t only prudent, they are required in this day in age with what seems to be an increase in the numbers of crimes against children.

If it were up to me, an individual convicted of a sex crime against child under the age of consent should get the death penalty, so these types of restrictions would become moot. A rape against a minor above the age of consent but still below the age of majority should be given a minimum 25 year term and possibly life depending on the number of counts. But since no one seems to be talking in real terms about real punishment, Jessica’s law needs to be passed in order to keep as many of these perverts in cages like the animals that they are.

As far as their claim that the law is vague, fine; then re-write it don’t reverse it. Instruct the city to include more specific language. But as I’ve stated, if the penalties were more harsh, we wouldn’t even be discussing this.

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ACLU Defends Pedophiles’ “Right” To Easy Access For Children



    The ACLU of Indiana filed the suit challenging a new city ordinance that fines child molesters caught near city playgrounds or other gathering spots for children.

    Calling the ordinance passed in mid-May unconstitutionally vague, the group said it would make law-abiding citizens unwitting violators of the ordinance and hinder their ability to work, vote and worship.

    The ordinance prohibits sex offenders convicted of crimes against children from coming within 1,000 feet of playgrounds, recreation centers, swimming pools, sports fields or facilities when children are around.

This news seems to have quite a few people rightfully outraged this morning. Some of these sex offenders are claiming they can’t go to church because of how close their church is to a playground, or that they can’t work for the same reason. However that argument seems pretty weak when you consider the exeception that is included in the law.

    One exception to the ban is if the offender is accompanied by an adult with no history of sex crimes.

I’m sure there are plenty of adults with no history of sex crimes that attend church and are employed at the same kind of places as these individuals. The ACLU are saying that this law is vague, however what sounds more vague is the arguments against it.

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ACLU Attacks Santorum


    The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a group of young women who claim their constitutional rights were violated when they were ordered to leave a book signing event featuring Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

    The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, claims that two of the women were arrested for trespassing last year and three others threatened with arrest because of their political views.

    According to the lawsuit, in August the women went to a Barnes & Noble store at Concord Mall in Wilmington to challenge Santorum at an event advertised as a book signing and discussion of his book, “It Takes a Family.”

    The women were ordered to leave by a uniformed state trooper providing security at the event after a member of Santorum’s promotional team overheard them talking before the Republican lawmaker arrived, according to the lawsuit.

Dan Rheil thinks the news in conviently timed. He also has all the details you need to see how this is nothing but a political attack.

    Thanks to Google’s cache feature I was able to find an email of an article dated Aug 22, 2005 from an apparent activist editor. Along with her calling Bush and Santorum the gestapo, she also wrote or posted text of conversations with the ACLU at the time. Quote - a year ago “they are considering their options”. Seems they considered them just long enough to impact a campaign.

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ACLU: Making America Less Safe




The above banner and slogan is quite deceptive and an utter joke to those that are truly aware to the ACLU’s workings. Just in the past week the ACLU has launched a massive campaign against the NSA’s efforts to trace terrorist phone calls into the U.S. This campaign with full page ads has even been denounced by media that usually defend the ACLU as completely lacking in context. In just the last few days the ACLU has pounced at the chance to bash America, applauding the decision of an EU Court that struck down an anti-terrorism agreement that allows the European Union and the U.S. to share information on airline passengers. And in the same day the ACLU of Florida came out against a new law that restricts colleges and universities from using state funds for travel to countries classified as terrorist states by the U.S. government.

The ACLU consistently allign themselves with groups like CAIR, and other organizations that have known terrorist ties. They have turned down donations from some of their most generous donors because of anti-terrorism stipulations. They can always be seen defending our enemies. It is no wonder that they fight to exempt lawyers from anti-terror supporting oaths.

    So now the ACLU is promoting itself as a champion of both safety for our citizens and of freedom. What a joke! When 9-11 occurred what measures did the ACLU take to ensure our safety? None, zip, nada. This organization has done nothing to ensure our safety, in fact it has chosen to sue our government on behalf of terrorists outside of their legal jurisdiction while they were located in prisons on foreign soil.

    They have since then demanded that the government release and make public top secret security information regarding not only the activities of our military, but also that of our intelligence forces. They have also initiated one lawsuit after another against the government to stop the searching of individuals for security purposes in mass transit situations, to stop what they call profiling (we will never see a Protestant white middle-aged woman as a terrorist working with an extremist Islamic organization) by race, sex and religion, and to stop the government from detaining and questioning or interrogating individuals who have ties or contact with known terrorist individuals and organizations.

    They want to kill the Patriot Act because they see the rights of an individual who may or may not be an American citizen as more important than the safety of the nation at large. They want the borders open because they see that as an infringement of the rights of non-Americans to become Americans however they can manage it. They want to have military and intelligence sources, activities, and planning revealed to the public so they can “watch dog” and ensure freedoms of individuals and/or groups are not being compromised, but in doing so will enable those very individuals and/or groups under surveillance the ability to avoid surveillance and possible capture before they do something destructive to American citizens.

    They say they are for a safe and free America. Yet their actions speak very loudly the opposite of the lip service they give in this banner for a safe America. As to a free America, how free are American’s who live under constant threat of a lawsuit by the ACLU for imagined Constitutional transgressions by a small group of jaded individuals who think their rights are more important than the communities they live in or the country they obviously find such fault with?

As for the part of the banner that says they want a free America, perhaps a better slogan would be….”If standards are good, then double standards must be even better.” When it comes to freedom of speech, the ACLU trip over their own two feet. While the left hand defends the rights of anti-American protesters, the right hand acts to supress the free speech rights of pro-life protesters. When it comes to religious free speech, the ACLU act more like a censor than a protector. The hypocrisy of the ACLU on freedom of speech has even been noticed by its own board members, but the ACLU has a solution to that….restrict their speech.

There are very few organizations that are as hypocritical, and dangerous as the ACLU. I really don’t understand why so many politicians sit aside and do nothing to curb the reckless power they have accumulated. However, as many people are seeing in today’s times, when the government doesn’t do what it should, the people rise up and stand up for their own rights.

The ACLU and the judicial activists are destroying our heritage, security, and our soverignity. They are doing it with our tax dollars. Join us, and the American Legion to urge Congress to put a stop to this. Support Congressman Hostettler’s legislation to stop taxpayer funding of the ACLU.

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Mississippi, In God We Trust, Not The ACLU


Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi has signed a law allowing religious documents to be posted on public property. Those in charge of public buildings are allowed to post The Ten Commandments, excerpts of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and the motto, “In God We Trust.”

Where is the ACLU in all of this? The Mississippi chapter is awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling over the constitutionality of displaying the Decalogue on public property before deciding whether to challenge the new law.

Mississippi ACLU Executive Director Nsombi Lambright said the new law was political maneuvering. She said Mississippi is the only state to move forward with a Ten Commandments law before the federal ruling.

“The way they’re talking about it, they’re using this to restore morality, and that’s not the purpose of state government,” Lambright said.

And, it’s definitely not the purpose or intent of the ACLU. Mississippi must just be driving these lefties crazy.There’s already a law requiring “In God We Trust” to be posted in every public classroom, cafeteria and gym.The American Family Association helped raise $25,000 to put framed “In God We Trust” posters in Mississippi classrooms.And, Mississippi has approved a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

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We Don’t Say Criminals, We Say Errants


Here’s a good one from the Rocky Mountain News.

In a lawsuit, the ACLU claimed that Colorado state law denying paroled prisoners the right to vote was unconstitutional, and argued that the Colorado Constitution provided that convicted criminals only lose their right to vote while they are incarcerated, but not after they are released on parole. A Denver district judge dismissed the lawsuit.

State law says that no one who is serving a sentence should be allowed to vote and parole is part of the sentence.

However, the best part is not the usual shenanigans of the ACLU shysters taking up the banner of felons, pedophiles and pornographers, it is another group involved in the case. “We’re very disappointed,” said Dianne Tramutola-Lawson, chairwoman of Colorado CURE.

Any idea what CURE stands for? It’s an acronym for Citizens United for Rehabilitation for Errants. Errants!??? Here’s another leftwing euphemism meant to turn convicted criminals magically into people who have merely strayed out of bounds and simply deviate from the standard.

Let’s see what happens when the ACLU appeals.

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Judge Orders DOD to Expedite ACLU Records Request

A federal court judge last week ordered the Department of Defense to expedite a Freedom of Information request made by the ACLU of Northern California on behalf of UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition and UC Santa Cruz Students Against the War.

The American Civil Liberties Union claims that the DOD’s TALON (Threat and Observation Notice) program collected data on both groups, as reported in December by MSNBC, and filed a lawsuit in March in federal court calling for the DOD to expedite the process of releasing the information.

“Expediting the process” means moving the request to the front of the queue, said Mark Schlosberg, police practices policy director for the ACLU of Northern California.

“I expect we’ll get the information in days or weeks—not months,” Schlosberg said.

“There’s an urgency to inform the public, involving alleged government spying on Americans,” he added.

The information the ACLU wants released concerns allegations of government data collection related to a campus Stop the War Coalition protest in April 2005. Information on the protest was reportedly collected by government agents and stored in the DOD’s TALON database.

At UC Santa Cruz data was allegedly collected at a protest against military recruiting on campus last year.

According to U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup’s order, the decision was influenced by some 70 news articles on the subject and inquiries into the TALON system by public officials including Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Bill Nelson, R-Fl., and Representatives Sam Farr, D-Calif., Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. and Robert Wexler, D-Fl.

“On December 14, 2005, MSNBC.com published an article revealing that the Department of Defense had been gathering information on political protests within the United States,” according to Alsup’s order. “The article stated that about 40 anti-war gatherings were documented over six months, ranging from street demonstrations in Los Angeles to a planning session by Quaker peace activists. MSNBC.com said the information was gathered as part of the TALON … system …. The program was designed to gather information on terrorism and threats to military bases.”

Getting the information is particularly critical at this time, Schlosberg said.

“As we’ve seen in the last several weeks, issues of domestic surveillance are in the forefront,” he said.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian joined ACLU as a plaintiff in the case. According to the judge’s order, the ACLU “asked for expedited processing on the grounds that they had a compelling need for the information because the Bay Guardian was a news organization that needed the information urgently to inform the public about alleged federal government activity. They also alleged that the military’s domestic gathering of intelligence on political activities was a breaking news story.”

The Department of Defense did not respond before deadline to requests for comment.

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Church play to get ACLU probe, date at Frauenthal

Controversy surrounding a religious drama recently presented in two local public schools has prompted an investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union -- and a plan by the church to bring the drama to the public.

"The Last Call," based on the Bible's Book of Revelations, was presented to students at Muskegon Heights High School last December and at Muskegon's Steele Middle School in April. Teachers in Muskegon have complained about the program, which was performed April 14 during a mandatory all-school assembly at Steele on Good Friday during school hours.

The ACLU began an investigation after The Chronicle on Sunday published an article about the school presentations.

"We are investigating it," Michael J. Steinberg, legal director for the ACLU of Michigan, told The Chronicle. "We're shocked by what you explained happened in the article. And certainly it was grossly inappropriate for students to be preached to in that way -- in a public school -- as well as being clearly unconstitutional."

The drama is a series of skits presented by a cast of 54 that is punctuated by demons dragging those who don't accept Jesus Christ into the pit of hell, and those who accept Jesus finding blessed happiness in heaven.

Controversy over the school performances prompted Shiloh Tabernacle Church to plan a free presentation of "The Last Call" at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m. June 30, said the Rev. Verne Wright, pastor at Shiloh.

"I just want people to come and judge for themselves and see that it does bring healing," Wright said.

Wright said the performance aims to promote healing, and described skits showing gang members rejecting their gangs and accepting Jesus Christ and a woman who had an abortion being reunited with her aborted fetus in heaven.

One of the more controversial skits is about a fictional man who molested two teenage nieces. Because he repented and accepted Jesus, the child molester was ushered through the pearly gates after he was murdered by one of his victims. That victim, who was a lesbian, didn't repent and accept Jesus, and upon her death from AIDS was condemned to an eternity of misery.

The point is brought home with actors portraying grim reapers dragging her through the smoky gates of hell accompanied by sound effects that resemble gunfire.

"We don't have anything to hide," Wright said. "Hopefully (the public performance) will open things up so we can go into more schools. It's not about church and state. It's about the community."

Church and school officials said they were unaware of any parents or students who complained about the Good Friday presentation. Steinberg said the ACLU heard from several residents of the Muskegon school district, including at least one parent, who "were similarly shocked by the violation of student constitutional rights."

"A program like this might be appropriate for church, or if parents want to teach their children and preach to their children at home it's certainly appropriate and they obviously have a right to do so," Steinberg said. "But one group's religion can't be forced down the throats of children in school."

Steinberg said the ACLU has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the Muskegon and Muskegon Heights school districts in an attempt to "learn exactly what happened and how the decisions were made."

"We just wanted to have an understanding of what occurred and perhaps we may ask to meet with administrators to ensure religious student liberty is not violated again in the future," he said.

Muskegon Public Schools Superintendent Joseph Schulze has said he was "concerned" about the presentation at Steele and that Principal Arthur Duren had apologized to staff and discussed the matter with students.

Muskegon Heights High School Principal Danny Smith defended Shiloh's presentations at his school, including one about four years ago. He denied that they violate the separation of church and state, though admitted they come close to the line.

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S.F. clinic chided on HIV test reports

The American Civil Liberties Union asserted Friday that San Francisco's public clinic is misleading people when they test for HIV, and demanded changes from the city's Department of Public Health to conform with a new California law.

The ACLU claims the City Clinic has been telling clients their names would not be reported to the state if they test positive for HIV, which runs counter to a state law enacted April 17 that requires all health care providers and laboratories to report names of individuals with HIV to the local health department.

One person tested told the ACLU that he even signed a form that stated that his name would not be reported if he turned out to be positive. The San Francisco resident, who asked to remain anonymous, also alerted Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, director of STD prevention and disease control for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

As of Friday afternoon, the City Clinic Web site, reflecting the earlier law, still said that the names of those testing positive for HIV can be reported "without using your name, but instead via a unique code."

Klausner was not available for comment Friday.

"California law requires that people can only be tested for HIV if they give their written informed consent, except under very limited circumstances," said Rose Saxe, a staff attorney with the ACLU AIDS Project.

"This law recognizes that testing positive for HIV remains a life-changing diagnosis, and that government and health care providers have an obligation to ensure that anyone seeking an HIV test can make a fully informed decision to be tested," Saxe said.

The ACLU demands that San Francisco health officials reveal that people who test positive will have their identities recorded and forwarded to the state.

"The actions of City Clinic should serve as a wake-up call to public health officials on the importance of being honest with the public," said Tamara Lange, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California and the ACLU AIDS Project.

"You can't expect people to trust the government when the government proves that it isn't to be trusted. Safeguards, like requiring written informed consent, were put in place to protect people. But as the City Clinic's actions here illustrate so clearly, those safeguards are still necessary to maintain the public trust, which is critical to getting people tested in the first place," Lange said.

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School Given Deadline in Jesus Painting Dispute

More tension over the picture of Jesus that hangs at Bridgeport High School, as the American Civil Liberties Union has given the school board a deadline for a decision.



New Harrison County School Board member Sally Cann says a big decision is expected on Tuesday.

After months of debate, there's now an ultimatum from the ACLU. The school board has until next Thursday to decide the picture's fate. Otherwise, they face an injunction from the ACLU and the group Americans United for Separation of Church And State.

"We hope we can settle this without litigation," says Harrison County Superintendent Dr. Carl Friebel. "We're working under the guidelines of attorney-client privileges, so I'm not at liberty to discuss the full content of their letter."

"We are waiting for their response," says ACLU Director Andrew Schneider.

Most students want the picture to stay up, but Schneider says those who support taking it down have been afraid to speak up for years. He believes the minority deserves a voice too. "It's what we call the tyranny of the majority," he says. "We believe that many people, including Christians themselves, are offended to see a religious symbol appropriated by the state."

Last month, the school board proposed a compromise. A so-called "wall of inspiration" which would have included other historical figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The ACLU says the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a similar case last year.

So for now, both sides are gearing up for the school board's next meeting.

"Hopefully we'll be able to move in the right directions at the June 6th meeting," Friebel says.

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Pot use recriminalized in Alaska


JUNEAU -- Possessing small amounts of marijuana, even in the privacy of the home, is illegal in Alaska -- at least for now.

Gov. Frank Murkowski on Friday signed a bill recriminalizing pot possession. The law will be challenged in court, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, leading to a likely judicial review of Alaska's marijuana laws.

Another provision of the bill, which is not in dispute, would make it tougher to buy ingredients used in making methamphetamine.

In a press release, Murkowski said the state's current marijuana laws send the wrong message to Alaska's youths.

The governor is seeking to overturn the 30-year-old landmark Alaska Supreme Court decision that legalized the use of small amounts of marijuana.

While the court then ruled that the right to privacy was far more important than any harm that could result from use of the drug, Murkowski argues marijuana is a more dangerous drug than it was in the 1970s.

The ACLU of Alaska said it would file for immediate injunctive relief in Superior Court in Juneau on Monday.

Executive director Michael Macleod-Ball said the lawsuit also would seek a permanent injunction against the marijuana provisions of the law which he said run afoul of Alaskans' constitutional rights to privacy.

Under the new law, pot possession of 4 ounces or more is a felony.

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Some Tennessee counties deny marriage licenses to immigrants

Some immigrants in Tennessee can't get marriage licenses because county clerks are requiring Social Security numbers to obtain them.


It's because of a state law passed in 1997. The statute was a response to a federal law aimed at making it easier to track down parents who fail to pay child support.

Hedy Weinberg of the ACLU says it's a misinterpretation of the law. Weinberg says the law requires disclosure of the marriage license applicants' Social Security if they have one, but doesn't require the person to get one.

Maikel and Alicia Garcia couldn't get a marriage license in Davidson County, even though Maikel Garcia is a citizen and Alicia Garcia is a legal resident. Maikel Garcia said the clerk's office wouldn't accept his wife's passport and visa.

Robertson and Williamson are among counties that will accept passports from applicants who don't have Social Security cards.

The Reverend Joseph Breen of St. Edward Catholic Church questions how the more restrictive policies uphold family values. Breen plans a group marriage ceremony for congregants who have been unable to marry.

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ACLU Opposing the Will of the People at the State Level


A central theme of the 2004 elections coinciding with the Presidential election was state amendments to their individual Constitutions defining marriage or banning same sex marriages. The ACLU has been successful in overturning these laws passed by the popular vote of the people in 2 states. Now, the ACLU is challenging another such law this time in the Volunteer State and the case is now coming before the state Supreme Court.

    Several state representatives held a news conference to urge the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject an ACLU challenge on the constitutionality of the marriage amendment and let it go before a voter referendum.

    They cited a survey by RealMarriage.org, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based group trying to get the amendment passed, that indicates most Tennesseans want to be able to vote on defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

    “It’ll be a sad day when queers and lesbians are allowed to get married … and kiss in front of the courthouse,” Rep. Eric Watson, R-Cleveland, said.

    Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The 49-48 procedural vote was 18 short of the 67 needed for the Senate to amend the constitution. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., criticized this week for bringing the matter to the floor in an election year, said those who favor the amendment will not give up.

    “We must continue fighting to ensure the Constitution is amended by the will of the people rather than by judicial activism,” he said. SOURCE

So what are we to do? States are passing these measures by popular vote and those pushing the depravity of same sex marriage cannot prevent it from happening using the ballot so they resort to the judicial system. They bank on the activism of jurists to side with the minority. I’m sorry, but the way I was taught, majority rules is the democratic way.

The people in Tennessee want this law. But the ACLU and the gay lobby is doing all that they can to keep us from having our will and force us to accept unnatural coupling as healthy and normal. Where does it end?

End taxpayer funding of the ACLU. Sign our online petition and call, write, and email your Senators and Congressman. Let’s put this to an end.

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