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Local ACLU Leader Steps Down

By Frank Morris

Kansas City, MO – Dick Kurtenbach, who has lead the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri for 20 years, retired Thursday. Under his leadership the ACLU fought to allow the Ku Klux Klan to broadcast on public access TV, to let Nancy Cruzan die, and recently for the rights of rural Missouri high school students to t-shirts bearing gay rights slogans. Now Kurtenbach says one of the biggest civil liberties issues facing the country, is the push to diminish the judiciary.

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