The ACLU: Leftist Boogieman or Targeted Strawman?

So there was this lame cartoon in the political cartoons community and it started a debate about the ACLU. The right wingers tend to paint the ACLU as some super-liberal organization with a desire to make NAMBLA the goal of society... and that kind of generalization disturbs me. Here's a couple of comments I made in the discussion, and I'd like some feedback.
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