http://www.frontpagemag.com/Ar...Article.asp?ID=19607

_______________________________________


FP: Tell us about some of the extreme positions of the ACLU that many Americans probably do not know about.

Sears: There are so many, but let�s start with the issue of marriage. The ACLU�s policy guide states that all civil and criminal laws prohibiting polygamy should be done away with. Earlier this year, during a speech at Yale Law School, ACLU President Nadine Strossen said: �We have defended the right for individuals to engage in polygamy. We defend the freedom of choice for mature, consenting individuals.�


This is not a new position for the ACLU. Read the wedding �vows� of ACLU founder Roger Baldwin in 1919:

"To us who passionately cherish the vision of a free human society, the present institution of marriage among us is a grim mockery of essential freedom�We deny without reservation the moral right of state or church to bind by force of law a relationship that cannot be maintained by the power of love alone�The highest relationship between a man and a woman is that which welcomes and understands each other�s loves�.The creative life demands many friendships, many loves shared together openly, honestly, and joyously�� (See pages 12-13 of our book.)


To show how extreme this is, of 92% Americans oppose such practices today as they have for nearly 150 years. Opposition to polygamy was in the first platform adopted by the new Republican Party in 1856 and several western states, including Arizona, where I live today, were required by Congress to outlaw the practice in their state constitutions as a precedent of being admitted to the union and even to bar the future reconsideration of the issue.


The ACLU also asserts that the First Amendment, which was NEVER meant by its authors to do so, �protects� child pornography. This is material so foul, that after my years as a federal prosecutor and Director of the Attorney General�s Commission on Pornography, I call it �crime scene photography� because of the actual abuse required for its production. The ACLU asserts there should be no federal or state governmental restriction on its distribution, reproduction, sale, and use by pedophiles and others. A very small minority of the American public shares this view.

These are just two of the many extreme positions that the ACLU holds that we discuss in the book."

Michael Savage is certainly no friend of the ACLU. But even far less rabid critics of that organization state that its purpose is basically to undermine America in any way, shape, or form that it can and replace it with the Marxist view of things.