These ancient forerunners of the ACLU were the PC police of their time. They were all up in arms that Jesus had performed such an act on the Sabbath when no one should be doing any work. Instead of rejoicing that someone was healed, all the Pharisees could see was that one of their silly rules was broken. In Liberty, Missouri, all the local ACLU group could see was that one of their silly lines of interpretations was crossed. Not that the local food pantry might be helped, or that a woman in the