Friday, September 23, 2005
ACLU
Evangelicals, conservatives, etc. love to bash the ACLU. What they fail to understand is that the ACLU is not anti religion but rather pro liberties under our Constitution. Example:
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today announced that it is seeking to participate as a friend-of-the-court in the case of a second-grade student who was barred from singing a religious song in a voluntary, after-school talent show.
"There is a distinction between speech by a school and speech by individual students," said ACLU of New Jersey cooperating attorney Jennifer Klear in New York City. "The Constitution protects a student's individual right to express herself, including the right to express herself religiously."
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