San Diego council members claim the ACLU has a rich history in “America’s Finest City.  Rebecca Rauber with the ACLU accepted the honor claiming her organization protects the “constitutional rights of all people.”

“We have hundreds of cases defending the religious rights of Christians to freely practice their faith without government interference.”

But city council candidate James Hartline calls that a smokescreen.

“They are certainly not reflecting the will of the people of San Diego by honoring a group that 76% of the entire city voted to keep the Mt. Soledad Cross on its permanent location.”

The ACLU was behind a pro-gay agenda in San Diego that forced the Boy Scouts off public property.  Brad Dacus with the Pacific Justice Institute.

“Any city that decides to give recognition to a radical, extremist organization who has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses against taxpayers of that city is unthinkable.”

Since its founding in 1920, the ACLU has been America’s number one religious censor according to Mike Johnson with the Alliance Defense Fund.

“They have literally waged a war on things like parental authority and efforts to promote abortion. They support that.  They have declared war on traditional marriage and all public expression of Christianity and religious faith.”

Hartline worries that other cities will follow suit with their own ACLU day.