The ACLU - pros and cons

[GreyMouser]

Let's say you have some members of a religious minority complaining that their tax dollars are being used to proselytise their children in a public school

One reported incident appears particularly egregious, concerning Samantha Dobrich’s 2004 graduation:
She was the only Jewish student in her graduating class. The complaint relates that local pastor, Jerry Fike, in his invocation, followed requests for "our heavenly Father's" guidance for the graduates with:

I also pray for one specific student, that You be with her and guide her in the path that You have for her. And we ask all these things in Jesus' name.
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On the evening in August 2004 when the board was to announce its new policy, hundreds of people turned out for the meeitng. The Dobrich family and Jane Doe felt intimidated and asked a state trooper to escort them.


The complaint recounts a raucous crowd that applauded the board's opening prayer and then, when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him "take your yarmulke off!" His statement, read by Samantha, confided "I feel bad when kids in my class call me Jew boy."



...A former board member suggested that Mona Dobrich might "disappear" like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the atheist whose Supreme Court case resulted in ending organized school prayer. She disappeared in 1995 and her dismembered body was found six years later
The crowd booed an ACLU speaker and told her to "go back up north."

In the days after the meeting the community poured venom on the Dobriches. Callers to the local radio station said the family they should convert or leave the area. Someone called them and said the Ku Klux Klan was nearby.

http://www.jewsonfirst.org/06b/indianriver.html

Say you're "StoptheACLU" and you have a problem with these uppity Jews.

Solution?

No Jews=No problem!

Publish their name, address and phone number, and sit back as the threats roll in.

Look, anyone in the public forum is open to any kind of harrassment, criticism and attacks- but you do NOT give out private information like the right-wingers in the recent NYTs case advocating publishing the same info for reporters's and editors's children.