You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws by David E. Bernstein

About The Book

In a misguided attempt to eradicate every vestige of "discrimination" in society, activists and courts are using antidiscrimination laws to erode civil liberties such as free speech, the free exercise of religion, and freedom of association. Civil rights laws today are being applied in ways that threaten free speech on campus and in the workplace, the right of local community activists to speak out against government policies, the rights of private associations such as the Boy Scouts to determine their membership policies, and even the rights of individuals to choose their roommates.

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Resources from Chapter Twelve: The ACLU and the Abandonment of Civil Liberties (read an excerpt from chapter 12)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

ACLU website: www.ACLU.org

ACLU Pro/Con: www.ACLUProCon.org

1999 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT
Text of the Act: www.WhiteHouse.gov
Hearings in the House: CommDocs.House.gov
National Fair Housing Alliance Comments: Archive.ACLU.org

CIVIL LIBERTIES ORGANIZATIONS
Individual Rights Foundation: www.CSPC.org/IRF
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: www.TheFire.org
Center for Individual Rights: www.CIR-USA.org

Footnote 419.
Digest of McCready v. Hoffius, 586 N.W.2d 723 (Mich. 1998): CourtOfAppeals.MIJUD.net

Footnote 422.
Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America, 17 Cal. 4th 670, 952 P.2d 218 (1998): www.LambdaLegal.org

Footnote 423.
Linda Hills, "Court Decision Tarnishes Justice and Boy Scouts," San Diego Union-Tribune, March 27, 1998: www.ACLUSanDiego.org

Footnote 424.
Julie Makinen Bowles, "D.C. Panel to Examine Boy Scouts' Ban on Gays," Washington Post, January 20, 1998, p. B1: LegalMinds.lp.FindLaw.com

Footnote 429.
Samuel Walker, In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990): www.SIU.edu

Footnote 438.
John Leo, "Watch What You Say," U.S. News & World Report, March 20, 2000: Pages.CC

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Robert C. Cottrell, "Roger Baldwin: Founder, American Civil Liberties Union": www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org

Footnote 444.
Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, eds., Truth v. Justice: The Moral Efficacy ofTruth Commissions: South Africa and Beyond (Princeton University Press): PUP.Princeton.edu

Footnote 448.
Jessica Gavora, "The Quota Czars," Policy Review, May 15, 1997, p. 22: www.PolicyReview.org

Footnote 454.
Dennis Cauchon, "Civil Dispute within the ACLU," USA Today, March 31, 1993: www.MIT.edu