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Originally Posted by dklassen
I may be wrong. The ACLU could be a right wing organization. Or the one's that want In God We Trust taken off money, maybe they are right wingers.
Or how about the people that sue schools to have the Ten Commandments removed or sue schools so they can't say a prayer before a football game. Maybe they are conservatives.
Nope, I'm pretty sure it's the left.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danbury_Baptists
The Danbury Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut sent a letter, dated October 7, 1801, to the newly elected President Thomas Jefferson, expressing concern over the lack in their state constitution of explicit protection of religious liberty, and against a government establishment of religion.
In their letter to the President, the Danbury Baptists affirmed that "Our Sentiments are uniformly on the side of Religious Liberty — That Religion is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals — That no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effects on account of his religious Opinions - That the legitimate Power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor..."
Thomas Jefferson's response, dated January 1, 1802, concurs with the Danbury Baptists' views on religious liberty, and the accompanying separation of civil government from concerns of religious doctrine and practice. Jefferson writes: "...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,'
thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
Thomas Jefferson a card carrying ACLU leftest? Doubtful.