[island_dude]

The last major case that I followed involving the ACLU was the School board in Kansas that was pushing or equal treatment of the intelligent design. The ACLU was supporting the group of parents who were complaining about being required to have their kids hear about how evolution is only a "Theory" and there were alternative view such as ID. They did a pretty excellent job of showing that the intelligent design movement has to redefine the scientific method in order to call ID a scientific theory.

They have taken cases for some pretty unpleasant people in the past. If anything, sometimes I think they would do better to compromise their principals once in a while. On the whole, they have done a lot of good. If you actually look at their record instead of the rantings of some of the extreamists. You will find that they are an organization I would like to have around in these times.