Why do Conservatives hate the ACLU?

[Sewer]

The Nazis were nationalists and religious, therefore they were right-wing.

lol

[President Mitt]

The Nazis were nationalists and religious, therefore they were right-wing.

quote from the obituary of Ted Kennedy from USA Today:
"Kennedy was a devout Catholic."

Um. OK. What's the point of that?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

The Nazis were nationalists and religious, therefore they were right-wing.

If you count neo-Paganism as the "right-wing" religion, perhaps.

[President Mitt]

The Nazis were nationalists and religious, therefore they were right-wing.

If you count neo-Paganism as the "right-wing" religion, perhaps.

Agreed there. The Nazi's weren't religious at all. They didn't want anybody to challenge Hitler's God-like status, so the best way to do that was to destroy religion.

[Scam of God]

The Nazis were nationalists and religious, therefore they were right-wing.

If you count neo-Paganism as the "right-wing" religion, perhaps.

Agreed there. The Nazi's weren't religious at all. They didn't want anybody to challenge Hitler's God-like status, so the best way to do that was to destroy religion.

No.

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- "Proclamation by the Government to the German Nation", Berlin, 1 February 1933

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- ibid.

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- National Labour Day speech, May 1 1933

Hitler himself was probably irreligious - which is not the same as atheism. But to deny that he appealed heavily to German Christiandom is absurd.

[Bo]

Because they oppose equal rights for all.

[paul718]

Is it because the ACLU advocates expansion of government in order to ensure the protection of civil liberties?

For example, if a company fires a worker who happens to be part of a protected class, will the ACLU not back that worker in a discrimination lawsuit against the company?

That's part of it, but even if the ACLU's case does not involve expansion of government, many conservatives (despite claiming to value individualism) will put religious standards, personal disapproval, or social conformity above individual rights.

And they are hypocrites.

[The Mikado]

The ACLU has addressed why they don't go out of their way on the gun issue.  There's a powerful, quite well-pocketed lobby that has the gun issue covered: the National Rifle Association.  The people the ACLU defends aren't anywhere near as well-heeled as the gun-manufacturers of America: Nazis, pedophiles, and Klansmen don't tend to be the most pecunious Americans.  Nevertheless, their rights need to be protected.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

The ACLU has addressed why they don't go out of their way on the gun issue.  There's a powerful, quite well-pocketed lobby that has the gun issue covered: the National Rifle Association.  The people the ACLU defends aren't anywhere near as well-heeled as the gun-manufacturers of America: Nazis, pedophiles, and Klansmen don't tend to be the most pecunious Americans.  Nevertheless, their rights need to be protected.

Except the NRA doesn't do a good job defending gun rights as an issue of liberty. The relatively small Gun Owners of America is the only real nationwide organization defending gun rights.

[fezzyfestoon]

Maybe they find it annoying that such an influential entity cares so much about people they generally don't concern themselves with ie. minorities, poor people, etc.

[??????????]

Yes fezzy those disgusting pedophiles deserve my sympathy.

[Conservative frontier]

Because they are useless reverse racist hippies who hate God. No Jew with a concience can support them.

[President Mitt]

Nobody I know has a "concience..."

[Conservative frontier]

Nobody I know has a "concience..."

We rednecks can't spell, my honest apoplogies. 

[Torie]

Nobody I know has a "concience..."

We rednecks can't spell, my honest apoplogies. 

I think you are beginning to get the hang of this posting game, punch counter-punch thingy. That was a very effective response to your interlocutor, I think. What are they going to say now? 

[fezzyfestoon]

Yes fezzy those disgusting pedophiles deserve my sympathy.

what

[President Mitt]

Nobody I know has a "concience..."

We rednecks can't spell, my honest apoplogies.  

You're a Redneck? I thought you were a Big City Carpetbagger.

[Conservative frontier]

Nobody I know has a "concience..."

We rednecks can't spell, my honest apoplogies.  

You're a Redneck? I thought you were a Big City Carpetbagger.

Nah, I chew tobacco, Do my cousin and drink myself into racsim