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The ACLU is a non-profit organization who protects people's individual rights and liberties, which the constitution and laws guarantee to them. I am a fan of the ACLU because they understand where the government's limit line is. Whether its defending women's rights of not having the government control their uterus, to preventing religion from controlling what a "legal" marriage is, the ACLU has been on the forefront of protecting people from the government of going beyond what their own guidelines are. On the contrary my own humanitarian beliefs clash with my libertarian belief of free speech when it comes to their decision to defend the Neo-Nazis right to free speech. I say this because as much as agree with the ACLU's stand on free speech

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