I've had a nice thing or two to say about the ACLU recently. Wouldn't want to make a habit of that, though, so allow me to note with distaste that organization's astonishing and repugnant claim that President Obama's decision to mandate coverage for birth control does not violate the religious-liberty guarantee of the First Amendment:
The rights in the Constitution are not granted to American citizens because the government decided to offer them beneficently at their discretion. They exist in the document as a testament to our natural rights, part of our innate humanness, and are detailed in the Constitution as a bar to government’s overreach in trampling them. If the ACLU can’t figure that much out, then not only have they jumped the shark, they’ve nuked the fridge and made themselves entirely irrelevant except for the elitist crowd that cheers on tyranny.
The ACLU is especially hostile to spiritual matters, being one of the prime movers in the effort to chase all religion from the public square, as if a creche in a park or a poster of the 10 Commandments on a schoolhouse wall is going to hopelessly corrupt the nation. Now they apparently want to follow religion into its private spaces and continue the mugging there.
