This is priceless and highlights the hypocrisy of the ACLU. The ACLU supports requiring crisis pregnancy center to post signs that they do not provide abortion or birth control services. Archbishop Edwin O’Brien said the ordinance is a free speech violation as well as a violation of the free exercise of religion. But it doesn’t seem the ACLU cares all that much about free speech or freedom of religion.
ACLU Michigan writes in support of similar laws in Michigan:
: The Michigan House of Representatives voted last week to support most of the bills in the Prevention First Package to protect women’s health. It’s time to ask the Senate to do the same. Senate Bills 167, 658-664 and 666-668 offer important protections for women while saving already scarce public health dollars. The Prevention First Package will…Require crisis pregnancy centers to truthfully and accurately identify themselves to women seeking services.
So requiring businesses to place signage against their will is OK with the ACLU…except when it’s on the other side.
The ACLU opposes a measure that would require abortion clinics in Tennessee to post signs saying its illegal to coerce a woman to procure an abortion and that law enforcement can be contacted.
ProLife in TN has an ACLU report that states:
ACLU-TN opposes this bill because it stigmatizes abortion by applying a different set of standards to it from other medical procedures; it demonizes certain health care providers; and it patronizes women by implying that they are incapable of making their own medical decisions regarding what is best for themselves and their families.
You know, I’m starting to think that the ACLU isn’t all that concerned with freedom.
April 1, 2010 at 6:59 am
They're not – they're the starter logs for Moloch idols. All they care about is burning as hot as possible and in as many places as possible.
You're not dealing with a health organization in Planned Parenthood. You're not dealing with a rights organization in the ACLU. You're dealing with the clerical order of demons.
Unfortunately, these organizations are staffed by the "materialist magicians" Hell has been trying to fashion since the "enlightenment". CS Lewis (via his character Screwtape) gave us fair warning.
April 1, 2010 at 1:26 pm
"You know, I'm starting to think that the ACLU isn't all that concerned with freedom."
Ya think? The ACLU is evil, pure and simple.
April 1, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Maybe a sign like:
We are Pro-Pregnancy.
No harm done here.
We like little children.
Choices everyone can live with.
Two walk in, two walk out.
April 1, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I find it interesting that one of the Michigan Senate bills is numbered "666." How appropriate.
April 1, 2010 at 3:04 pm
How do you explain these?
http://www.aclufightsforchristians.com/
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/may/22.64.html
April 1, 2010 at 3:29 pm
How do you explain these?
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
April 1, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Can't say I know much about their performance on this issue as a national organization, apart from what you've posted here, but the student chapter of the ACLU at my university helped the pro-life group out when we wanted to set up a "cemetery of the innocent" outside of the administration's designated free-speech zones.
April 1, 2010 at 7:17 pm
"What is before us, after all, is a speech regulation directed against the opponents of abortion, and it therefore enjoys the benefits of the 'ad hoc nullification machine' that the Court has set in motion to push aside whatever doctrines of constitutional law stand in the way of that highly favored practice." Justice Scalia, dissenting, Hill v. Colorado (2000).
April 1, 2010 at 11:26 pm
ELM – thanks for that.