I don't accept that this is new. This has always been the tension in this debate. It was the tension when they supported the Nazi's right to march in Skokie and it was the tension for 200-years-worth of arguing about it before that.
And it's a tension that the ACLU once took a clear (and extremely controversial) position on.
And it's a tension that the ACLU once took a clear (and extremely controversial) position on.