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In this celebration of Constitution Day, the Executive Director of the ACLU (Massachusetts) cited the "2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case, which allowed owners of a closely held for-profit corporation to deny coverage for their employees’ contraception if they are morally opposed to it, as an example of the interplay between religion and constitutionality in this country." But the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. It does not guarantee access to birth control. If Rose suggested this comparison she deceived the audience. She added, “It’s a question of the role of religion and our rules about sex and who gets to decide who gets to have sex,” Oh? The current mandated U.S. Department of Education rules for having sex on campus is restricting who can have sex on campus, not the Constitution. In California the Democratic legislature and Governor are dictating how students and faculty can have sex on campus, not the Constitution.
Rose said, "Black people smoke a lot less pot than white people, but they get arrested for it at an extraordinarily higher rate,” Gasp! There used to be more white people than black people in the U.S. What kind of mathematics and statistics is the ACLU using? Or is she just making it up? Chairs compared to oranges? Did Rose learn math in a dumbed down school? She then uses her specious math to conclude there are racial disparities. Huh?
She asserts, "It doesn’t matter what the people who wrote the Constitution meant; what matters is the power of the words,” Legislative intent is the historical basis for court decisions. But not for the ACLU. Rose reveals her belief that words are more important than their meanings. That is the paradigm of the PR industry, lawyers and politicians who use words to deceive voters and taxpayers and to keep them uninformed, dumbed down. At no time during this discussion celebrating the Constitution,if the report is complete, does the ACLU chief mention the role of the Constitution guaranteeing individual rights. She speaks in collective terms, suggesting individual rights do not matter. For a detailed explanation of how the ACLU ran off the rails read Wendy Kaimer's book, Worst Instincts. Kaminer was a board member of the national ACLU.
http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2014/09/22/mass-aclu-director-discusses-constitution-todays-society/
Mass. ACLU director discusses Constitution in today’s society
BY SHANA FRIEDMAN
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Tufts Daily
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