News & Commentary
Oct 14, 2010
ICE Deports American Citizen
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and the ACLU of North Carolina filed lawsuits in federal courts in Georgia and North Carolina on behalf of Mark Lyttle, a U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent with mental disabilities who was wrongfully deported to Mexico.
Oct 07, 2010
"Why Fred Phelps's Free Speech Rights Should Matter to Us All"
Why Fred Phelps's Free Speech Rights Should Matter to Us All
"The first time I saw those signs, with their vivid neon colors and crude images of stick figures, was 16 years ago. "Fags Die, God Laughs." "No Tears for Queers." "God Hates Fags." Like most people seeing a Westboro Baptist Church picket for the first time, I was shocked, then outraged. It happened at the funeral of a friend who had died of AIDS. Seeing those signs left me in tears."
Today's Portland Press Herald ran a Washington Post article titled "Does a funeral trump free speech?" The ACLU hopes the answer is no in the Supreme Court cas
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