[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by wolf

ACLU's statement where they say "defending child molesters doesn't mean we support child molesting."

Which is so obvious, it shouldn't need to be repeated for every case they take. But the fact that it shouldn't need to be repeated doesn't mean it doesn't need to be repeated.

Someone does X.
The government does Y, in response to X.

If the ACLU believes that Y is wrong, they take the case. X is irrelevant.