Kansas City, KS, has dropped charges they filed against street preacher Michael Wheeler for preaching on a public sidewalk in May. He was represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, and rightly so. They will undoubtedly be applauded by the anti-ACLU crowd, as I think they should be, for defending religious freedom. Yet the ACLU has defended street preachers all over the nation in similar cases. Here are links to just a few:
Indiana
Nevada
New Mexico
Washington
The ACLU does the exact same thing the ADF does, yet Alan Sears of the ADF still accuses the ACLU of waging "a legal jihad against public expression of the Christian faith in America." Welcome to the world of delusion.
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One of the standard arguments we hear from the Hate the ACLU crowd is that the ACLU is that they are "getting rich on taxpayer money" because, in some cases, Federal law allows plaintiffs who sue government agencies successfully to recover their legal fees.
One of the frequent readers here posted a link to my post about their silly guilt-by-association attempt regarding the sex change for prisoners case in Massachusetts, and the author of their article,
A few days ago I wrote about Volokh's use of the phrase "ACLU Derangement Syndrome" in relation to Clayton Cramer, who had
Clayton Cramer is also discussing the Polk County "free speech zone" situation, partially in response to my post
The ADF leadership is not demented. They are too intelligent for that. Their quotes on the ACLU are carefully constructed to stoke the base... for more money. They know what they say isn't true; they just think the ends (money/power) justifies the means (lying).