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Continued from preceding page
grass-roots level. he cites a
new air of confidence among
Christian fundamentalists as
an example.
"There may have been, in
the past, a certain group of
people in this country who
have promoted America as a
`Christian nation.' But now
they feel emboldened by a na-
tional Administration which
supports that, by a Justice De-
partment that goes along with
that kind of thinking, by an
implied promise that future
appointees to the federal
courts are going to act in that
way."
Ironically, according to Si-
mon, while Jimmy Carter may
have been a true, born-again
Christian, President Reagan
has given the ACLU and its Howard Simon: Losing ground in
supporters far more to worry civil rights?
about. "He (Carter) didn't of the rights we point to when
we talk about what it means to
build a political constituency
by catering to a far-right live in America."
Simon shouldn't complain
movement that is using reli-
too
loudly, though. Since the
gious fundamentalism to ac-
1980
election of Ronald Rea-
complish what is, in realistic
gan,
national
ACLU member-
terms, a political agenda.
ship has jumped nearly 20 per-
"Reagan was elected with cent to an all-time high of
the help of that constituency 250,000. The organization's
and therefore, he has to make
operating budget for 1984 was
commitments to people like more than $17 million.
(Senator Jesse) Helms and
Simon came to the Michigan
(Moral Majority leader Rev.
ACLU nearly 11 years ago by
Jerry) Falwell."
way of DePauw University in
The role of the courts under
Indiana, where he taught phi-
the current Administration is losophy. The seeds of his civil
one of the ACLU's largest con-
rights involvement however,
cerns, he says. There is a feel-
were sown during his youth in
ing that the days when the jud-
New York. "There's a certain
icial branch of government kind of personality char-
served as a forum for the pro-
acteristic one needs in order to
tection of disadvantaged indi-
work for the ACLU," says Si-
viduals and minority groups
mon. "It's a healthy sense of
have come to an inglorious
outrage at insensitivity or
end.
stubbornness on the part of of-
"The federal courts in ficials.
Michigan, by and large, have
"I remember having that
judges that are tremendously sense when I was a child in
sensitive to the civil freedoms
school. Being raised in New
of individuals. But then the
York, where the schools had
government files an appeal,
sizeable Jewish populations, I
meaning that the case could
didn't really run into any
conceivably wind up in the
anti-Semitism. But I do recall,
Supreme Court.
at a very young age, sensing
teachers in public school ex-
"And there we have a forum
pressing favoritism towards
that, more often than not, does
certain children at the ex-
the bidding of the Administra-
pense of others."
tion."
So while the ACLU appoin-
The erosion of the Supreme
Court's favorable views on ment represented a profes-
sional departure for Simon,
minority rights began with
the Nixon Administration, ac- the compassion required to sit
behind the director's desk at
cording to the ACLU director.
the civil rights agency's office
The prospect of additional ap-
pointees like conservative in downtown Detroit was de-
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor eply ingrained. In fact, Simon
before President Reagan was a card-carrying member
of the ACLU long before he
leaves office in 1989 is hardly
ever had the opportunity to
a comforting thought for Si-
mon, who talks wistfully work for the organization.
Though he is not a practic-
about growing up in the days
ing attorney like many of the
of the Earl Warren Supreme
ACLU's employees and volun-
Court — "Their decisions were
responsible for enforcing most Continued on. Page 18
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