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Jeff Duncan: last Thursday in one of our Nation's leading daily newspapers, the Christian Science Monitor, was this paragraph: ``The…

On the recordOctober 30, 1997
last Thursday in one of our Nation's leading daily newspapers, the Christian Science Monitor, was this paragraph: ``The ACLU is at it again. The organization that opposes school uniforms, obstructs teen curfews, fights metal detectors at airports, and challenges restrictions on child pornography is now turning its legal firepower against single-sex public schools.'' As the headline in the Monitor said, ``Single-sex schools are a form of diversity.'' The Christian Science Monitor is not a conservative publication. Also, even many liberals like columnist William Raspberry and others have praised single-sex schools. People should be free to go to any type of school they want to go to or their parents want them to go to. But everyone should realize how elitist and left wing the ACLU has become, how out of step with the American people it is. It basically has become an organization that is supported by rich socialists. They fight against school prayer and in favor of child pornography. What a group. Then they try to portray themselves as a pro bono public interest group and then demand $6.7 million, $450 an hour, for legal work in their suit against the Citadel. The ACLU charged $105,000 just to prepare the bill in that case, so now all the students at the Citadel will have to pay higher fees for their college education, thanks to the ACLU.
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing the ACLU's opposition to single-sex public schools and its perceived elitism.

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