Reply #45: How do you think the vegitarian population feels about the Harkin [View All]

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Steak fry? "Live and let live" is how I hope most liberals feel about the right to self expression. Free speech and tolerance are not limited to your beliefs - or a lack their of.

I tend to be in agreement with the ACLU when it comes to free speech.

More to the point, the ACLU is often right about the First Amendment's free exercise clause, taking on fights that others refuse. It might surprise some critics that the ACLU defends the free speech and free exercise rights of, well, Christians.

For example, in 2001, the group interceded with a school district in Michigan that had deleted a high school senior's yearbook entry because she included a Bible verse. In 2002, the ACLU filed a brief on behalf of a pastor associated with Operation Rescue who was prevented from participating in a parade because his pro-life poster showed a photograph of an aborted baby. And last September, the organization joined a lawsuit on behalf of a New Jersey second-grader who was not allowed to sing "Awesome God" in a school talent show. (All of these examples are easily accessible on several Web pages now devoted to defending the ACLU 's record on Christianity.)

The above is from Christianity Today's May issue - http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/005/22.64.html