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...anti-smut and anti-abortion provisions will run for 48 hours, starting after Clinton signs the bill Thursday afternoon. Among the parts of the legislation being protested: making it illegal to transmit "indecent" materials to minors, or discuss where or how to get an abortion on the Internet. The ACLU says it will challenge the bill in federal court, contending that the bill's wording is so vague that it would prohibit transmittal of novels like "Catcher in the Rye" and other forms of already-permitted free speech. Acccording to TIME's Joshua Quittner, "The protest shows the solidarity...
Advocates of women's rights are currently battling a tide of potential infringements, said President of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Nadine Strossen '72 yesterday at the fifth annual Rothschild Lecture in the Agassiz Theatre...
...third ongoing battle for women's rights legislation is in the broad attack on the feminist movement," Strossen continued. "We [the ACLU] believe that all rights are indivisible and if the government violates one right of one individual, no right is safe for anybody any more...
...prayer (not a moment of silent prayer, but the vocal kind). Specifically, he embraced the cause of Judge Roy Moore, whom the American Civil Liberties Union has sued for praying over his Etowah County courtroom. James not only raised money for Moore's defense; the Governor is suing the ACLU for suing Moore...
...ACLU, it seems, has the right idea, but it has not taken it far enough. Drastic problems require drastic solutions, and violence in America has become a drastic problem. America has conducted a 200-year experiment in allowing private citizens to own arms, and it is time we pronounced that experiment a failure...