Word: aclu
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MAYOR VINCENT CIANCI of Providence reacted less wisely by loudly refusing to accede to requests that his government take down a creche it had placed on the City Hall steps. Vowing to fight a suit that will be filed this week by the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Cianci portrayed himself as a champion of piety to reporters: "I've talked with the ACLU in the past, and what I've told them is they're jealous because they don't have three wise men and a virgin in their whole organization...
...blustering argument against First Amendment experts. Mayor Cianci has pointed out that in Providence a private organization has actually paid for the religious tableau standing before the city's headquarters. But this has not deterred local ACLU Executive Director Steven Brown, who stressed in an interview that "by providing a municipal site for the display, the government clearly projects a support for the beliefs symbolized," Brown added: "We are not seeking equal representation for other religions; we want to emphasize that no spiritual belief should be advertised with any official entanglement...
Draft activists say demonstrations are being planned in more than 100 cities, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been training lawyers and preparing defense briefs to be used in the first cases...
...refused to acknowledge that sexual outlook has an influence on aesthetics. We would not expect a celibate straight director to make a film indistinguishable from that of a celebrated roué. No more should a film by or about gays look as though it was financed by the ACLU. Indeed, in modern popular culture there is no more distinctive aesthetic than the gay one. As defined by Canadian Critic Lawrence O'Toole, it includes a taste for grand romantic gestures, excesses of "spirit, personality and desire" and "a refusal to apologize for outlandish behavior." This spirit, O'Toole...
President Horner and Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, last weekend received special awards from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in recognition of their work in defense of civil liberties. Freund has been associated with the ACLU's Massachusetts chapter for more than a decade. Horner has conducted several studies related to civil liberties, including two on working women. Robert Palmer, a Polaroid employee who helped develop that company's affirmative action program, also received an award at the presentation banquet last Sunday. The awards, established after the death last August of ACLU founder Roger N. Baldwin...