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The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by a Unitarian socialist named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920 in response to the [[Espionage Act]] and [[Sedition Act]]. During most his tenure at the ACLU Baldwin was sympathetic to the communist movement, only breaking off ties on the eve of World War II.
The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by a Unitarian socialist named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920 in response to the [[Espionage Act]] and [[Sedition Act]]. During most his tenure at the ACLU Baldwin was sympathetic to the communist movement, only breaking off ties on the eve of World War II.
Some conservative Christians claim that the ACLU has used the legal system to purge Christianity from public life, so much so that some conservatives refer to it as the "Anti-Christian Liberties Union." For example, the ACLU has made numerous demands and filed lawsuits to remove the Ten Commandments and Christian crosses from public places and symbols. However, the ACLU has defended Christians in a number of cases. One prominent example was where the ACLU fought to allow a Christian student to have a Biblical passage on the student's yearbook page.[http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12845prs20040511.html]
In Pennsylvania, the ACLU received over 1 million dollars in legal fees for obtaining a court order to prohibit a school district from making a brief statement alerting students to the theory of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution.
In Pennsylvania, the ACLU was involved in the recent [[Dover trial]] where the ACLU sided with the plaintiffs who argued that the [[Intelligent design]] was inherently religious and unscientific.