Oh look, you revealed your imagination's agenda.
And of course did your thing, raising a subject not under discussion to obscure the one that is.
The ACLU in the totality of its many recent stupidities is not the subject. We apparently agree that the ACLU has changed, and is frequently now to be found in the ranks of the intolerant, left-PC thinkers.
Here is the subject. Try to keep focused for a second.
<<Liberals are unique in shouting down opposing views.>>
My mission was not to make a blanket defense of the ACLU. This is not a difficult concept to grasp for one not determined to change the subject.
The ACLU defended a non-liberal position, Neo-Nazism, in the Skokie case, though it was a liberal organization. It does a lot of stupid things (did you know that one branch of the ACLU tried to keep Clarence Thomas from speaking at a conference a while back?!) and I frequently disagree with its positions, but it also, and not every twenty years, defends the expression of views opposed to those of a majority of its liberal members. In 96 or 97 the ACLU defended a conservative Judge whose position was threatened for talking at an anti-abortion event. I'm not willing to research it, but this is the case.
Yes, I know the PC-left likes to suppress expression by those with opposing views. So does the intolerant hard right. Not even so hard. Pataki not so long ago attacked a university for a conference it held on the subect of sexuality in which various sexual views conservatives objected to having aired at an academic conference were discussed.
And how much leftist thought do you you think you'll find being freely expressed at Brigham Young U?
My point is exceedingly simple. It is not 'unique' to the left to attempt to muzzle those with whom it disagrees. It appears, in fact, to be human nature to want to do that. Which is why the First Amendment is so important.
Edit:
I put ACLU and conservative and judge into google.
aclu.org
The issue stems from a complaint over comments Sanders made Jan. 26 to a March for Life rally of abortion opponents in Olympia.
Sanders, a former attorney who was first elected to the six-year term in 1995, could face sanctions ranging from an admonishment to a recommendation that his eight colleagues censure him from the bench.
"No, I am not a card-carrying member of the ACLU," Sanders said last night about the irony of being represented by an organization that many conservatives love to hate. But he believes in the Constitution, and "many times the ACLU stands up for liberty in a context that I admire."
The commission investigators contend that Sanders planned his participation at the rally, wore a red rose symbol of the anti-abortion movement and knew that he was speaking to a group that endorses legislation that could come before his court.
Kathleen Taylor, Executive Director of the ACLU of Washington, said the issue is about free speech, not abortion.
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