Originally Posted by Wow Civic
Both sites promote their views with liberal slants, and not surprising they even dive into the old "conspiracy theory" one more time.
The first site is the neo-con group themselves official site. As in the group Dick Cheney and all of them belong to, it's THEIR site. Do you think thet have a hardcore liberal slant against themselves or did you just say that without knowing what you're talking about? Quick edit it before some quotes! .... Doh!
And I do agree that some of the things the ACLU does are stupid, I even said that, but I think most of the cases you posted are mostly things taken out of context with langauge that makes then sound more ridiculous then they are and that it would be wrong to discredit the group entirley based on a Washington Post Op Ed.
You bring up pedophilia, and for the reasons you mention pedophiles lose a significant chunk of civil rights. But the way the law works a 17 year old who gets arrested fr having sex with his same age girlfriend gets the same treatment, technically is a pedophile. That is kinda ridiculous, I think we can agree. Of course "ACLU defends pedophiles!" makes a good headline, but if I was a guy who had to deal with that shaming the rest of my life for consentual sex with a same age girlfriend I'd be happy to have SOMEONE defending my rights.