George Putnam
Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004

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  The ACLU opposes the Boy Scouts because of their intolerance for people who don't embrace their values; and in the name of tolerance, the ACLU and those who consider the Boy Scouts subversive have no tolerance for the Boy Scouts or anyone else who disagrees with them.

Ever since I entered journalism, 70 years ago, this reporter has had a running battle with the ACLU. Take a look at the founding of the ACLU.

Roger Baldwin founded the ACLU in 1917 as the Bureau for Conscientious Objectors of the American Union Against Militarism. The name was changed to the Civil Liberties Bureau later that year when it became the National Civil Liberties Bureau after being raided by the FBI searching for evidence of subversive materials.

On November 11, 1918, Baldwin began serving a one-year term in a federal prison for sedition. Upon his release from prison in 1920, he renamed the organization the American Civil Liberties Union.

Roger Baldwin left no doubt as to the purpose of the ACLU. Here is his direct statement: "I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property." And he concluded, "COMMUNISM IS THE GOAL."

The ACLU has been described repeatedly as the "transmission belt of the Communist Party USA." It is an organization that needs to be isolated, exposed for what it does, recognized for what it is, and destroyed.

The ACLU supports legalization of child pornography, drugs and prostitution; tax exemption for Satanists; abortion on demand and mandatory sex education. The ACLU uses our court system to destroy the very moral fiber of America. And now the Boy Scouts of America is under attack. The ACLU, in its battle against our principles, uses blackmail and legal terrorism.

This reporter has participated in the Boy Scouts movement through the ranks since the age of 10 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, learning and living by the fact that a Boy Scout pledges to keep himself physically strong, morally straight and mentally alert - learning and living by the Boy Scout laws to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.

These goals of the Scout movement are under siege. It is an internal warning that America's very way of life is being threatened.

Recently, 700 lawyers under the Alliance Defense Fund have said enough is enough, and they are fighting back. They have contacted over 3,600 school districts nationwide during this Christmas season; at no cost to the school districts, these lawyers are combating any attempts to censor the celebration of Christmas at schools and on school property.

The goal of the ADF Christmas project is to clear misconceptions about seasonal religious expression on public property. The ADF lawyers are explaining to those willing to join us in the fray that we are on firm ground: