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The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by a American citizen named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920 in response to the [[Espionage Act]] and [[Sedition Act]].  Baldwin and the ACLU purged any open communists from its ranks in 1940.
 
The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by a American citizen named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920 in response to the [[Espionage Act]] and [[Sedition Act]].  Baldwin and the ACLU purged any open communists from its ranks in 1940.
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==ACLU Against the Boy Scouts==
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The ACLU filed a lawsuit to prohibit the federal government from continuing to allow the Boy Scouts, a charitable organization for teenagers, to use an Army base in Virgina for a quadrennial gathering.  In 2005, the Boy Scouts received about $7 million in support from the Defense Department for this National Boy Scout Jamboree, and more than 40,000 Boy Scouts attended.
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Although the Boy Scouts have been conducting this Jamboree for 70 years, this lawsuit was not filed until 1999, after the Boy Scouts enforced its policy against having openly homosexual Scout leaders.  The theory of the lawsuit was that because Scouts swear an oath of "duty to God," it violates the Establishment Clause for the government to allow this joint project.
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A federal district court ruled for the ACLU, but the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed and ruled in favor of allowing the government to continue to sponsor this event for the Boy Scouts.<ref>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4689133.html</ref>
    
==ACLU and the Establishment Clause==
 
==ACLU and the Establishment Clause==
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