The ACLU announced that it now opposes RFRA. Some people have conscientious objections to participating in abortion or same-sex weddings, and the ACLU doesn’t want such disfavored religious minorities to enjoy the same accommodating standard as everyone else. ..…

Attacks from the right on ACLU in the 1920s denounced free speech as un- American because of the defense of unions and left-wing groups. ... ACLU filed briefs in all the major cases through which Supreme Court created the body of First Amendment law.   .. ..…