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The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) is an American (civil liberties ) organization founded by former Reagan Administration official Robert B. Carleson in 1998. It was founded in response to views that the most prominent civil liberties organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, was too leftward leaning; ACRU has been described as a conservative civil liberties advocacy group. The ACRU has filed numerous amicus briefs in court cases involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), gun ownership and property rights cases, and cases involving the Boy Scouts of America including the 2000 U.S. Supreme Court case of ''Boy Scouts of America v. Dale'', defending the Boy Scouts' freedom of association right to create their own criteria for leaders and members. Christopher Coates is the ACRU General Counsel, J. Kenneth Blackwell and Robert Knight are Senior Fellows, Jan LaRue is a Senior Legal Analyst, Mike Korbey is Managing Director, and Carleson's widow, Susan, is chairwoman.〔(Human Events ) URL accessed 2008-04-06.〕 The ACRU Policy Board includes: *Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Attorney General *William Bradford Reynolds, former assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights *James Q. Wilson, (emeritus-deceased) professor, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy * Curtin Winsor, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica *Walter E. Williams, professor of economics, George Mason University * Charles J. Cooper, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel * Richard Bender Abell, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs * J. Kenneth Blackwell, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission * J. Christian Adams, author, columnist and former attorney in the Voting Section of the U.S. Justice Department * Hans von Spakovsky, author, columnist and former Federal Election Commission * Christopher Coates, former Voting Section chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division The ACRU's main focus areas are: *Election Integrity *Property Rights *Freedom of Religion *Equality Under the Law *Right to Keep and Bear Arms *Individual Liberty and Federalism ==Opposition to Same Sex Marriage== The ACRU opposes Same Sex Marriage. In two separate columns, in the Washington Times,〔http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/3/robert-knight-forcing-gay-marriage-on-americans-wo/ Civil rights and wrongs - Forcing gay marriage on Americans would be an act of tyranny - Washington Times - May 3, 2015〕〔http://www.theacru.org/saying-no-to-illicit-rulings/ Saying No to Illicit Rulings - Washington Times - Feb. 1, 2015〕 ACRU Fellow, Robert Knight has attacked courts for ruling in favor of same sex marriage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Civil Rights Union」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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