The ACLU's Strategy against American Self-Governance
by Dr. Susan Berry 22 Mar 2014
The ACLU is accomplishing its goal of overriding the will of “We the
People” to achieve its activist agenda, as evidenced by a federal judge's
decision to strike down Michigan’s same-sex
marriage ban--one that had been approved by nearly 60 percent of the
state’s voters.
Kary L. Moss, ACLU’s Michigan executive director, made the following
presumptive statement following the judge’s decision to bypass the will of Michigan voters on the subject of marriage: “Public
opinion has changed drastically since 2004 when voters amended the Michigan constitution to
exclude same-sex couples from marriage.” Moss added, “Today, across the
political spectrum, Michiganders recognize that allowing same-sex couples to
marry is a matter of fundamental freedoms, economic security, and family
values.”
Apparently determining for itself
what voters in Michigan
and other states want, the ACLU’s “Out for Freedom” campaign has successfully
convinced some Americans that belief in only traditional marriage is
anti-freedom and anti-equality.
And the ACLU is not finished.
The organization has filed
same-sex marriage complaints in Indiana, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon,
and Wisconsin.
The ACLU’s strategy is to use the
Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to
pave the way for more states to fall in line.
“While we celebrate all of the
progress we’ve been making on marriage, individual states still have anti-gay,
anti-marriage laws,” the organization states on its website. “In fact these
discriminatory barriers are now embedded in 29 state constitutions.”
The ACLU says that it is “working
toward achieving marriage in 20 states by 2016.” It touts, “We’re already
laying the groundwork for passing fair marriage laws in Oregon,
Nevada, and
other states.”
The organization adds that it is
looking to “conservative voices” as “the next frontier in building public
support for the freedom to marry.”
“With the goal of working both
with and within the Republican Party, the ACLU has hired top [John McCain]
strategist Steve Schmidt,” the statement continues. “Schmidt will bring
right-of-center voices to the state campaigns to pass fair marriage laws and
add the freedom to marry to state constitutions.”
Ultimately, the ACLU plans to
litigate federal court cases that will, at some point, bring the marriage issue
back to the U.S. Supreme Court “for a federal solution by declaring that the
entire country must have fair marriage laws.”
The ACLU chastises the high court
for avoiding “the issue of the constitutionality of Prop 8--and thereby the
federal solution,” but is nevertheless certain that the issue will return there
for a final resolution.
In a press release Friday, Tony
Perkins of Family Research Council describes the effort to redefine marriage as
a “judicial activist stampede”:
This judicial activist stampede to
redefine marriage is making a mockery of the ideals that our Founding Fathers
stood for. The Left continues to push their social agenda into the courtrooms
to demand the change that voters won't give them. With their ballot box options
very limited, these activists have focused their attention on the federal
bench-- raising the eyebrows and ire of the very Americans they hoped to
persuade.
One by one federal courts are
vaporizing the right to self-governance. This is not just an attack on
marriage, but an attack on the rule of law. It is not the role of judges to
redefine our most fundamental societal institution which has such far-reaching
implications for society at every level.
Perkins concludes by stating,
"Rather than repeat the disaster of Roe v. Wade and redefine marriage for
all fifty states, we expect the Supreme Court to return to the people and their
elected representatives the right to decide the future of marriage."
Sharing the same view, Archbishop
Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco,
the U.S. Catholic bishops’ “point man” on the defense and promotion of
traditional marriage, asserted recently that the very healthy and growing
pro-life movement is the key to defending the central role of marriage as the
sanctuary of life.
“The pro-life movement is about
more than saving the life of the baby,” said Cordileone in January. “It’s especially
about connecting that baby to where he or she came from: the mother and the
father. … There is no other institution that does that.”
Cordileone described some with
activist agendas against marriage as “bullies,” and he urged young pro-lifers
during the March for Life to stay “close to Christ” as they seek to present the
truth about marriage.
“Future generations will
understand that the natural truth of marriage benefits everyone and
discriminates against no one,” the archbishop said. “But prepare yourselves: It
will require heroic virtue, for there is a lot of reverse bullying going on
these days.”
Same-sex marriage
Clifford S.
Asness supported same-sex marriage
in New York,
was a leadership council member for the Robin
Hood Foundation, and is a director at the International Rescue Committee.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, the Robin
Hood Foundation, the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), the Human
Rights Watch, and the Center for American
Progress.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a benefactor at the Human Rights Watch, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, is a director at the Drug Policy Alliance, the founder &
chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Human Rights Watch, the Center
for American Progress, and the American
Constitution Society.
Aryeh
Neier was the vice chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, the president of the Open Society Foundations, an executive director for the Human Rights Watch, an executive
director for the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), and is a director at the Center for American Progress.
Ira
Glasser is a director at the Drug
Policy Alliance, and was an executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Morton H. Halperin
is a senior adviser for the Open Society
Foundations, was a senior adviser for the Center for American Progress, and a director, Washington office for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Caroline
Fredrickson was the Washington
legislative director for the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and is the president for the American Constitution Society.
Dawn E. Johnsen
was counsel for the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), a director nominee, acting assistant attorney
general at the Office of Legal Counsel
for the Barack Obama administration,
and is a director at the American
Constitution Society.
Robert Raben was
a director at the American Constitution Society, the assistant
attorney general for the U.S. Department
of Justice, and is the president of the Raben Group.
Janet
Reno is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution
Society, and was the attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American Constitution Society, and is the attorney
general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the American Constitution
Society, and the Human Rights Watch.
Barbra Streisand
is the founder of the Barbra Streisand
Foundation, and was introduced to TV audience by Orson Bean on 1961 'The Jack Paar' show.
Orson
Bean introduced Barbra Streisand
to TV audience, on 1961 'The Jack Paar' show, and was George F. Burrows’s father.
George F. Burrows
was Orson Bean’s son, and a co-founder
for the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU).
Raben
Group was the lobby firm for the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Melody
C. Barnes was a principal for the Raben
Group, an EVP for the Center for
American Progress, a director at the Domestic
Policy Council for the Barack Obama
administration, and is Barack Obama’s
golf partner.
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