This is the Stupidest Thing in the World.

[merrychristen]

Ok, this is what I can't believe. The ACLU is actually going to help people who want all gay people to die, blame dead soldiers on the fact that America allows homosexuality, and blamed the Katrina disaster on the fact that New Orleans was a city of "fags".

Comments

[fuckchop]

yhhhhhhggggg. the whole thing makes me ill.

BTW..................... that fucking guy looks like that scary mother fucking priest from poltergiest that sings the "god is in his holy temple" song.

[patheticgurl]

I fully believe in free speech.

The ACLU protects this, even if some people do not agree with what other peoples beliefs are.

I am a member of ACLU and they have helped my father out of a situation that other people like yourself may have not agreed with just because of the subject matter.

I don't agree with a lot of things, but it doesnt mean I think everyone should think the same way as me.

[fuckchop]

i don't think everyone's opinions should be the same as mine either... however... i don't think that government money should go to fund religious beliefs. i also don't think people should be allowed to protest at the funerals of soldiers who just died or the funerals of gay people who die of aids or from violent attacks. *which they've done on several occasions* and the fact that the ACLU is backing them makes me sad. protest all you want, but don't do it in the faces of grieving families.

[patheticgurl]

ACLU does not receive government funding. It is a non-profit supported by members and private organizations and individuals.

unfortunately with rights comes things that are ridiculous. but without it and without organizations like ACLU, you and everyone else wouldn't be able to say what you wanted.

I don't agree with people cheering on the government murdering someone because of something that may have or may not have happened...
and i don't like to see the KKK running up and down the streets saying blacks should be killed.

People say the ACLU backing up people like my father is sad, horrible and evil as well. But everyone is supposed to have rights.

That's really all it comes down to with the ACLU. Not what the people are saying, if they agree, or what they're doing.

If the families want to press charges for harassment or restraining orders, it should be done in this case.

true....

[merrychristen]

That's ok... I deeply respect the ACLU and I know that they have helped many people with very different problems. My concern is that by assisting this church of fear and hate, they will weaken themselves on other (and I think more important) cases. But you're right - freedom of speech means freedom of speech, even if you personally find the speech of hate mongering retarded hypocrites totally without value. It's important that everyone should have a right to voice their opinion. And that means I can enjoy my right to make fun of them.
Hope you're doing ok, Liz... come visit soon!

[xenophile]

I think the ACLU's money would have been better spent hiring hitmen to wipe out the Phelps's's's, so that not only would their cause be moot, but then it wouldn't give the right wingers more ammo to hate the ACLU

[careena]

Look, C., you know I hate Phelps and want him to get painful ass cancer.

But I love, love, love the ACLU. They defend assholes *now* so that good people can have rights later on. Trust them. The government will often try to pass an anti-civil liberties law using unpopular assholes-- like these-- as a good reason to do so.

But think about this way: if the civil liberty of protesting near a funeral gets taken away, you and I won't have the opportunity, fifteen years from now, to piss on Dubya's coffin as it drives past. And that's something I'm dearly looking forward to.

Good point...

[merrychristen]

I will be wearing a red party dress and a fruit hat when that bastard keels over... doing the happy happy happy dance all over his earthly remains as he gets reincarnated as a dung beetle.