[OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

[Jonathan Ellis]

On 2/8/08, Nathan Blackham <kemotaha at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ACLU will fight any fight that is against civil rights.  They are blind
> when it comes to other issues.

This used to be true.  I can remember the ACLU supporting the right of
people to protest outside abortion clinics, for instance.

But in the last decade or so they seem to have become a lot more
partisan.  I can't think of any non-liberal or politically correct
cases they've supported recently.

A member of the board of the Massachusetts ACLU affiliate wrote on
this subject: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010111

-Jonathan