Glenn Reynolds lays an egg,

and I just wrote to him about it. His entry from yesterday, saying the ACLU’s Refuse to Surrender Pledge is a good idea, is ridiculous. Apparently a lot of peple agreed with me, because he’s saying “Jeez, a lot of people don’t like the ACLU.”. So this morning he’s come up with a lame justification;

My point, however, was the desirability — no matter who is in power — of defending the Constitution, with a slight tweak at the ACLU for treating the Bush Administration’s threats more harshly than the Clinton Administration’s. The ACLU was actually very critical of Clinton on specific issues, but never took the “barbarians at the gate” approach notwithstanding that Clinton’s record on civil liberties was, if anything, worse than Bush’s.

OF COURSE I REFUSE TO SURRENDER MY CIVIL LIBERTIES TO ANYONE IN POWER! And I sure don’t need the Instapundit or the ACLU for that.

And no, we don’t need the ACLU, which is defending nudist camps for children, and pedophile murderers, while attacking the Boy Scouts of America. As the Wall Street Journal said,

If there’s one thing we’ve learned by now, it’s that the ACLU offensive [against the Scouts] says more about the degraded status of the civil liberties group than it does about the Boy Scouts.

If Prof. Reynolds had done a little research before endorsing the ACLU, he’d noticed that, as Hans Zeiger says,

Our very capacity for self-government is at risk when we allow the ACLU to deny a boy’s opportunity to learn to be, “trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.”

So much for Reynolds’s “good idea”.

Join me in the Support the Scouts Initiative today. Here’s how you can help:

Read the articles at the Boy Scouts of America Legal Issues Site.

Spread the word. Tell all your friends about this. Email your entire mailing list.

Write, call, and email both the national ACLU and your state ACLU offices protesting this current policies. Insist on being heard. To find your local office, navigate the national ACLU site to the right-bottom corner where it says “YOUR LOCAL ACLU” and you’ll find the states listed alphabetically.

Register at the BSA website for updates, donate money to their legal defense fund. Join any of the supporting organizations, and add your organization to the supporting organizations roster.

Laura Friedel and David Scott of the Schiff Hardin law firm are the lawyers assisting the ACLU in the Illinois law suit. If you’re their client, withdraw your business and tell them why.

Call your representative in Congress and ask them to support the BSA. Call your Senator and ask him/her to support the BSA. Find out how they voted and insist that they support the Scouts.

Write to your local papers supporting the Scouts.

Call your local United Way and request that they support the Scouts. If they don’t, don’t support the United Way.

The Save Our Scouts bill will be reintroduced in the next session of Congress. We need to act now.

And if Glenn Reynolds won’t post this entry in the Instapundit page, so be it.