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ACLU defends Chick-fil-A’s right to be homophobic

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By Pat Cunningham

Your typical conservative thinks of the American Civil Liberties Union as automatically opposed to conservative points of view, but that’s a distortion of reality.

Granted, most ACLU members probably are more liberal than not, but the organization defends the First Amendment rights of people whose views they find repugnant.

HERE‘s a good example:

Although the ACLU strongly supports same-sex marriage, a senior attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois warned that if Chicago bans Chick-fil-A over the religious views of its management, it will be engaging in “viewpoint discrimination,” Fox News reported Thursday.

“The government can regulate discrimination ...

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