Posted on 08/03/2005 12:05:50 PM PDT by Jay777
As a child, Helena Aldridge developed a passion for defending the rights of others.
Now on the brink of adulthood, the 18-year-old finds herself in disagreement with a group that ardently defends individual rights: the American Civil Liberties Union.
Aldridge, who lives in Largo, graduated in May from East Lake High School. Faced with the prospect of paying for a five-year stint in the pharmacy program at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, she gratefully accepted a $450 scholarship from the Elks Lodge and two $500 scholarships from the NAACP.
She was thrilled this summer when she learned she was one of three Florida teens to receive a $1,000 Norman Elliot Kent Youth Activist Scholarship from the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.
The group, based in Miami, offers the awards to graduating seniors who have demonstrated a strong commitment to civil liberties and civil rights through student activism.
Then Aldridge read up on the organization.
While she found much to applaud - the ACLU has been protecting rights guaranteed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights since 1920 - she was dismayed at what she perceived as the group's abortion rights stance on abortion and its opposition to prayer in public schools.
Aldridge, who is a member of Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Clearwater, is opposed to abortion. She supports prayer in schools.
"They want you to be able to choose whether you can get an abortion," Aldridge said. "I don't think it's the right thing to do. And if someone in the classroom decides they want the class to pray, I think they should be able to do that."
She called the ACLU last week and left a message saying she had decided to decline the scholarship.
(Excerpt) Read more at sptimes.com ...
Really, how many children in the 21st century really develop a meaningful passion and track record for defending the rights of others? Haha!
What a freakin' joke. Good for her.
Good for her, I would think that there would be some scholarship minded Freepers that could stand in the gap, and then some for her!
Well not my child...he's just all about the whole "me" 'me", and more "me".
I was hoping for the same thing.
"A group that ardently defends individual rights: the American Civil Liberties Union."
Not really...
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)
American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Great idea. If somebody organizes it, I'm in for $50. 19 more $50 donors and we're done.
She displays a lot of maturity.
I thought the exact same thing...bwahahahah! exactly.
That's not what the piece says, though: "a passion for defending the rights of others"--I read that as saying she developed a passion for what she hoped to do in the future. Sorta like little kids develop a passion for flight, so they want to pilot fighter jets and such.
Now, from the Department of Redundancy Department...
the group's abortion rights stance on abortion
If I could find her address...I have a paypal donation button on my site that I would gladly collect the money and pass it on. However, I'm thinking people are gonna want something more trustworthy? I would love to learn how to properly organize something like this. If anyone takes the lead on this, I would like to be a part.
wait until she discovers the ACLU's soviet roots and ongoing socialist agenda.
If she believes private property rights are essential and natural rights, she will soon LOATHE the ACLU
I didn't read it that way at all. Oh well...
ah... you beat me to it.
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