Ethics

The Commie ACLU Again!

By Ed Brayton

That damned anti-Christian communist lawyer's group the ACLU is defending prisoners whose letters are being censored of Bible verses.

In a letter sent today to the jail's superintendent, Joseph Riggs, Jr., the ACLU asks for jail officials to guarantee in writing that the jail will no longer censor biblical passages from letters written to detainees and to revise the jail's written inmate mail policy to state that letters will not be censored simply because they contain religious material.

"It is nothing short of stunning that a jail would think it okay to censor the Bible and other religious material for no reason other than its religious nature," said David Shapiro, staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project. "Such censorship violates both the rights of detainees to practice religion freely and the free speech rights of those wanting to communicate with detainees."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).