The ACLU Strikes Again

The American Civil Liberties Union, long known for “backing” anti-Christian activities has done it again. This time, it might affect your home.

The following comes from Reuters, and was posted on their website today.

A U.S. federal court ruled on Thursday that a 1998 law designed to block children from viewing Internet pornography violates the U.S. Constitution’s free speech protections.

The ruling sided with a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had argued that the provisions of the Child Online Protection Act were too restrictive.

Judge Lowell Reed of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia wrote in his ruling that while he sympathized with the goal of restricting minors from seeing pornography, other means that were less restrictive of free speech, such as commercial software filters, were available to block pornographic content.

The Child Online Protection Act made it a crime for any person to provide minors access to “harmful material” over the Internet. Violators could be fined up to $50,000 and imprisoned for up to 6 months.

Sad. Because there are filters, we shouldn’t try other means to keep children from viewing pornography.

If this ruling is upheld, parents could have even more to worry about when their children are online. The ACLU continues to try to tear apart the home and our moral fiber.