I'm sorry, what way of life was that again? We had a way of life before the Civil War that included slavery. We had a way of life before sufferage in which women couldn't vote. We had a way of life before Civil Rights in which black people couldn't go to most colleges or public schools. Which way of life did we have that the ACLU ruined? Did you mean a Christian evangelist way of life? If so, how did the ACLU ruin it? Did they keep you from the church of your choice? Did they force your pastor to say certain things? Did they outlaw your right of assembly? Can you not put a manger or a cross out front of your church? What right of yours did the ACLU hurt?
I'm not a member, but this thread made me go to their website for the first time - it's quite interesting.
http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=9543&c=24 addresses the rights of Nazis and KKK members. Here, a paste:
FREE SPEECH FOR HATEMONGERS?
The ACLU has often been at the center of controversy for defending the free speech rights of groups that spew hate, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. But if only popular ideas were protected, we wouldn't need a First Amendment. History teaches that the first target of government repression is never the last. If we do not come to the defense of the free speech rights of the most unpopular among us, even if their views are antithetical to the very freedom the First Amendment stands for, then no one's liberty will be secure. In that sense, all First Amendment rights are "indivisible. "
Censoring so-called hate speech also runs counter to the long-term interests of the most frequent victims of hate: racial, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. We should not give the government the power to decide which opinions are hateful, for history has taught us that government is more apt to use this power to prosecute minorities than to protect them. As one federal judge has put it, tolerating hateful speech is "the best protection we have against any Nazi-type regime in this country. "
So what makes them the most dangerous organization in the country?