WAR:Official ACLU Policy Positions ============================================================================== The ACLU Supports | The ACLU Opposes ============================================================================== Legalization of child pornography | Voluntary school prayer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Legalization of drugs | Sobriety checkpoints ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tax exemption for satanists | Tax exemption for churches ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Legalization of prostitution | Relgious displays in public ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abortion on demand | Medical safety regulation and | reporting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mandatory sex education | Parental consent laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Busing | Educational vouchers and home | schooling ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ideological testing for court | Government ethics committees appointees | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Automatic entitled probation | Prison terms for criminal offenses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public demonstrations for Nazis and | Public demonstrations for direct communists | action pro-lifers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Legalization of polygamy | Teaching "monogamous, heterosexual | intercourse within marriage" in the | public schools ============================================================================== Covenants ============================================================================== The Christian Covenant | The Humanistic Covenant ============================================================================== God's sovereignty | Man-centered secularism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ God's order | Man-imposed egalitarianism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ God's ethics | Man-generated rationalism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ God's judgment | Man-induced anti-traditionalism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ God's promises | Man-provoked optimism ============================================================================== - What is now called free thought is valued, not because it is free thought, but because it is freedom from thought; because it is free thoughtlessness. - G.K. Chesterton - Mike Ruestik had only been on the job as manager of a small convenience store for two weeks when he ran into his first major problem. It was a tough ethical problem that became an even tougher legal problem. A sales representative from the news and periodicals distributor that the store bought its inventory from was telling Mike about a number of new products that the company was offering to its customers - including a number of pornographic magazines. Mike wasn't interested. He placed his regular order of family-oriented magazines and comics and let it go at that. If only that had been the end of it. Two days later, Mike received a very distressing call from a local lawyer. He was told that his "arbitrary refusal" to order certain magazines was "in effect censorship" - a "clear violation" of the free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution. He was then given an ultimatum: either stock the pornography in the store or face a lawsuit - a lawsuit that would almost certainly cost him his store and his livihood. "I couldn't believe this was happening to me," Mike said. "I asked the guy why I couldn't stock whatever I wanted to stock in my store. I asked him whatever happened to free enterprise and all that. I asked him why my First Amendment rights weren't being considered." Apparently, the lawyer wasn't interested in hearing Mike's perspective on the issue. "It was like he wasn't even listening. All he cared about were those magazines. Well, I'm sorry. I'm trying to run a family business here, and I don't want that trash in my store. I told him I'd see him in court." It never came to that. The corporate office decided not to litigate, and Mike was fired. Sysop note: Just think, you could be next! The name ACLU is just another name for the spirit of the anti-christ, according to the Word of God.