Graduating students defy ACLU

[aggiecatholic05]

The pastor who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance was a socialist. Lucille Ball’s grandfather was a socialist. The Reuthers who founded the UAW were democratic socialists. Woody Guthrie wrote: “This Land Was Made For You and Me”. Do you know his politics? What do those factoids have to do with anything now? Which brings us to the ACLU …

1. socalism and communism arent the same thing
2. the UAW is a very bad example if you want to make a seemingly harmless or good list of socalists
3. the fact relates to their views, and can shape things they leave behind(see UAW and greed, or aclu and anti-christian)

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

What about the pledge of allegiance?

Dalton Trumbo and Zero Mostel (maybe) were commies. They were still artists.

The lawyers who defended the ‘Scotsboro Boys’? Commies.

Harry Bridges and Jack Lawrenson who created the modern National Maritime Union? Commies.

The Reuthers and the UAW happen to be the most revered unionists and union in the US.

 

[Lujack]

1. the UAW is a very bad example if you want to make a seemingly harmless or good list of socalists

Unless you happened to be an autoworker in the 1930’s, in which case you would have been very grateful to actually have a union, instead of being thrashed around by management.

Seriously, though, public schools are supposed to be welcoming of all faiths, which includes Jews, atheists, and agnostics. I wanted to pray in the classroom, so I went to a Catholic school. Imagine being the lone Jew, Muslim, or atheist at Pace High School, trying to graduate. Imagine being a Mormon.

Imagine being a Catholic in a mostly Muslim public school, and 400 of your classmates start bowing to Mecca on your graduation day.

 

[aggiecatholic05]

I wanted to pray in the classroom, so I went to a Catholic school. Imagine being the lone Jew, Muslim, or atheist at Pace High School, trying to graduate

you can pray in a public school, and noone can stop you, despite the efforts of the aclu and groups like it.

 

[Wolseley]

Actually, no. It was founded to protect civil liberties and has done so on a non-partisan basis since the thirties. It has represented Klan members as to free speech issues and represented a white man charged with a felony for marrying a black woman, changing US law forever. So many conservatives (like Clarence Thomas) should thank the ACLU.

Disband the ACLU? I think the constitution says something about freedom of association – its a civil liberty.

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