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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

The ACLU really is for everyone

Just wondering is anyone knows if Rush and Hannity et al. are championing the so called "godless" ACLU:
The preacher with a hole in the knee of his jeans and a pocketful of prayer cards waded through the late-night crowd — young men with hats on sideways, women in saucy dresses, hired hands passing out fliers for escort services. Tom Griner turned a raised palm toward Robert Jones, a 21-year-old visiting from Illinois.

"Jesus saves!" Griner shouted.

"Maybe," said Jones, not stopping to chat. "But he didn't win me $500 last night."

The way the American Civil Liberties Union sees it, the 1st Amendment was made for nights like this. The organization in recent months has turned a small band of street preachers into unlikely symbols of free speech — fighting, sometimes in noisy confrontations with police and casinos, for the preachers' right to spread the gospel on the Las Vegas Strip.

Just checking.