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Jim Brown

 A pro-family leader says a recent announcement from the ACLU -- that it is expanding its work on social justice issues in the country's heartland -- ought to unite conservatives against such a judicial threat.

The American Civil Liberties Union says it has already raised $258 million over the last year and is seeking $77 million more to hire new attorneys and launch new liberal advocacy programs in states like Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, and Tennessee. Major donors to the ACLU's fundraising campaign include billionaire financier George Soros, who gave $12 million through his Open Society Institute. 
 
ACLU executive director Anthony Romero says the group plans to, among other things, expand its advocacy on behalf of illegal aliens and homosexuals seeking marriage rights in heartland states.
 
American Values president Gary Bauer says the ACLU campaign is one more sign that conservative and pro-family people "better wake up."
 
"I still hear a lot of grousing, a lot of complaining about the election, about nothing's at stake, there are no choices or whatever -- that couldn't be more wrong," Bauer emphasizes. "The left right now is on the offensive; they are raising massive amounts of money. This ACLU announcement makes it clear they're going to take the battle right into the heartland where the pro-family movement is the strongest."

Bauer says the ACLU is going to use the courts, their regulators, and every other option available to force the country to accept their "radical left-wing agenda." Pointing to the outcomes in the last two presidential elections, he says liberal activists understand they are in a battle to make America in their image.
 
"The day after those elections you didn't hear [liberals] moaning and groaning and firing [accusations] at each other and blaming each other," he recalls. "What you saw ... was people going to microphones and saying 'We're going to fight even harder. We're going to raise even more money. We're going to do even more things at the grassroots level until we prevail.'"
 
Bauer laments that many "men and women of faith" currently lack the "fighting spirit" that exists on the left.