The ACLU’s Hypocritical Defense of Laws That Violate Religious Liberty

Neither the ACLU nor its allies could carry on their political and legal activism if the law could require them to employ people opposed to their purposes.

Carson Holloway, --March 31, 2015

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One of the great ironies of our politics is that the American Civil Liberties Union is now actually hostile to traditional American civil liberties.
This is the conclusion one must draw from a letter the organization has sent to the House of Representatives, seeking to defend two District of Columbia laws that, under the guise of enforcing non-discrimination, undermine the First Amendment rights of private organizations. Essentially, the ACLU seeks to defend regulations that require religious universities to provide their facilities for the use of student LGBT advocacy groups and that forbid religious organizations from firing employees whose personal conduct violates the morality to which the organizations are dedicated. More...

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