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A Limited Love of Liberty: A former ACLU board member says that the organization has lost its way.

By ADF Alliance Alert

At the Wall Street Journal, John Leo has this discussion of Wendy Kraminer's new book, Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU. Leo writes: "'The ACLU," she writes, 'began describing itself as a 'social justice organization,' and its non-partisan commitment to civil liberty shrank -- especially its commitment to free speech -- while its vision of equality expanded.' New organizations with a stronger commitment to free speech and freedom of assembly now do the jobs that the ACLU declines to do. These groups include the Alliance Defense Fund and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education . . ."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).