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I'm posting this because I didn't see it on any of the other Burn the Koran threads. Where did the ACLU come down on the issue of the Florida church and plans to burn the Koran? I would hope, in the issues of credability and integrety, that they were solidly behind it. They support the right to burn the US flag, to do "art" that consists of tossing a crusifix in a bucket of pee, for Nazi's to march and virtually every other act that would offend a large number of people. All in the name of civil rights. And, as offensive as these acts are, I actually support the right to do them, if not the acts themselves.
So what's the story, has the ACLU spoken out in support of the Dove Church?
As Reverend Terry Jones prepares to strike a match and send a Quran up in smoke, the ACLU finds itself in a strange position: defending both sides in the debate. "We are in a unique position to say he has the right to burn the Quran, and then walk across the street and protest him for doing it," says Brandon Hensler, spokesman for the ACLU of Florida. "There are two competing interests and they're not mutually exclusive."
As Reverend Terry Jones prepares to strike a match and send a Quran up in smoke, the ACLU finds itself in a strange position: defending both sides in the debate. "We are in a unique position to say he has the right to burn the Quran, and then walk across the street and protest him for doing it," says Brandon Hensler, spokesman for the ACLU of Florida. "There are two competing interests and they're not mutually exclusive."
As Reverend Terry Jones prepares to strike a match and send a Quran up in smoke, the ACLU finds itself in a strange position: defending both sides in the debate. "We are in a unique position to say he has the right to burn the Quran, and then walk across the street and protest him for doing it,"
"you can't censor speech based on hypothetical outcome. The Reverend clearly has the free speech right to burn a Quran, as disgusting and vile an act as it is. It's everybody else's right to exercise their free speech against him. You can't pick and choose who has constitutional rights."
Surely you weren't writing about the ACLU and integrity in the same sentence!
You're right, sorry. Brain cramp.
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