That ACLU has done it again – maybe this time they will be stopped:
Prisoner and free-speech advocates are demanding a written guarantee that inmates at a Virginia jail can receive letters containing religious material after a prisoner said his mail was censored.
The American Civil Liberties Union, its Virginia chapter and several other civil, religious and prisoner rights organizations sent a letter to Rappahannock Regional Jail Superintendent Joseph Higgs Jr. requesting that the issue be resolved without litigation.
Anna Williams, whose son was detained at the jail for several months, said officials cut out entire sections of several letters she sent to her son that contained Bible verses or religious material. She said the jail cited prohibitions on Internet material and religious material sent from home.
“Obviously for security issues the right to practice religion while incarcerated is a balancing act to some extent, but that can’t possibly apply to a mother sending religious passages to her son,” said Kent Willis, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia.
Wait…be we can stop them next time when they are doing something we do not like.
Jail removes Bible verses from letters to inmate; ACLU on case – USATODAY.com.
July 17th, 2009 7:28 pm
Those Godless anti-Christian evil pig- … huh? What?
But I thought that the ACLU hated Christians! Huh …
July 18th, 2009 12:02 pm
The ACLU defending a mother’s right to send her son biblical passages?? OK i am waiting for you to say sike-just kidding-gotcha or something?!
July 18th, 2009 12:44 pm
That’s because you listen to propaganda about the ACLU rather than looking into their real work.
They also took up the case when a girl was stopped from singing “Awesome God” in a school talent contest a few years ago. I found that one especially amusing because I was talking to a friend who said, “Why doesn’t the ACLU ever take up cases like that?” The next paragraph in the story started with “The ACLU has filed in defense of [the student, whose name I've forgotten].” Oops.
July 19th, 2009 12:53 am
The day is fast approaching when the ACLU will be our only hope against an increasingly fascist government. Kind of scary!