The Alliance Defense Fund’s Alan Sears
- Posted by Beth on October 27th, 2005 filed in General, Support this
Stop the ACLU landed an interview with Alan Sears, President of the Alliance Defense Fund–the organization that fights the legal actions taken by the ACLU and others against religious freedom and the value of human life. Alan Sears has a new book, The ACLU Vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values, that details the ACLU’s campaign against the freedoms our Founding Fathers had intended us to have, and the ACLU’s extremist agenda.
Part of that extremist agenda, of course, includes their effort to legalize child pornography. Sears notes in the interview:
In 1983, the ACLU submitted a friend of the court (SCOTUS) brief in the case of New York v. Ferber, arguing that the distribution of child pornography is protected by the First Amendment. The ACLU Policy Guide states: “The ACLU believes that the First Amendment protects the dissemination of all forms of communication. The ACLU opposes on First Amendment grounds, laws that restrict the production and distribution of any printed and visual materials even when some of the producers of those materials are punishable under criminal law.” (i.e. child pornography).
In the mid-1980s, when I serving as the Director of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, the then-legislative counsel of the ACLU testified that it was the ACLU’s position that once child pornography was produced, there should be no government restriction on its sale and distribution.
There’s much more in the interview on a variety of subjects, including about how the ADF started and about their strategy–what they do to fight the ACLU. He closes with this, regarding grassroots efforts like Stop the ACLU:
ADF is thankful for any efforts that raise awareness of the ACLU’s dangerous agenda for America and encourages citizens to get involved in combating it. I believe that the American people are increasingly rejecting the ACLU’s agenda as more and more of it is brought into the light. Keep on doing what you are doing, highlighting the ACLU’s most recent outrageous statements and positions, and I am sure your efforts will be successful.
Congratulations to Jay at Stop the ACLU for getting the interview!
Dan Kauffman says:
““The ACLU believes that the First Amendment protects the dissemination of all forms of communication. The ACLU opposes on First Amendment grounds, laws that restrict the production and distribution of any printed and visual materials even when some of the producers of those materials are punishable under criminal law.” (i.e. child pornography).”
The CRIME is assessory after the fact to the felony
of child abuse, the first amendment does not enter into
that factor.
Many years ago I was a store Dectective for SS Kresge
in Lexington, KY some idiot had arrested someone
as an assessory to shoplifting
Shoplifting is a misdemeanor if the value is
below a certain level
The Judge who threw out the case held a meeting
with ALL the Store Detectives in town and read the
riot act and explained the Law
With a felony the Citizen has arrest rights
because if you do not exercise them or report the
crime YOU become an assessory after the fact.
With a Misdemeanor you do not have citizen arrest
rights and cannot be held culpable.
So in this case the real crime is not distributiing
pornography but NOT reporting the Felony of Abusing
children by the production of the same.
jonas976 says:
“The ACLU believes that the First Amendment protects the dissemination of all forms of communication. The ACLU opposes on First Amendment grounds, laws that restrict the production and distribution of any printed and visual materials even when some of the producers of those materials are punishable under criminal law.”
If the ACLU believes so vehemently in the First Amendment, then why can’t little children draw pictures of Jesus or write about Him in school (some of them get in trouble for doing this)? Doesn’t that fall under the “dissemination of all forms of communication?” Why do they also sue schools that print the word “Christmas” on school calendars?
First Amendment, my ass. It’s only First Amendment if it suits their agenda; nothing more, nothing less.
*spits*
Jay says:
Thank you Beth!