> I do NOT believe enemy combatants, from other countries, captured during any battle deserve any legal or civil rights. They do.

The US has signed the Geneva Convention documents.  What is a non-uniformed enemy combatant, and how does one get that designation?  Can it be challenged?

> I do NOT believe the distribution of child pornography should be protected by the First Amendment. They do.

Neither do I, but your point is disingenous in that defense of such has been on specific legal grounds, not the for the practice itself.  It's an important distinction.

> I do NOT support NAMBLA. They do.

Not really.  See above.

> I do not sympathize with terrorists or terrorism. They do. http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-09/16/article02.shtml

What happens when/if anyone with a legitimate beef can be branded a terrorist?  Were the American revolutionaries terrorists?

I have not doubt the ACLU has taken some cases that maybe they shouldn't have.  But I'm afraid that without that pushback on the government, our civil liberties would already be so eroded as to be meaningless.  Some might say it is already so.