I had been getting calls from the ACLJ every day for weeks.  Mostly, I just saw it logged on my caller ID history because I'm not usually home during the normal telemarket call hours.  But a few times, I was home and answered without looking at the caller ID.  Every time I answered, a (live) woman on the other end said, "Please take a moment to listen to this brief message from X*, about a literally life and death issue..."  Every time, I said something like "I can't talk right now," and they said they'd call back later. 

I confess didn't actually know who the ACLJ was.  Of course, the initials looked like the ACLU--of which I am a card-carrying member--and the name, "the American Center for Law & Justice" sounded like a liberal organization, possibly an innocence project, so I didn't want to be too rude (although I never actually listen to liberal telemarketers either--except during this last election).  Finally out of curiosity, I looked them up. Turns out, according to Wikipedia:

The American Center for Law & Justice was founded in 1990 by evangelical Pat Robertson as a nonprofit public interest law firm. It was conceived as a counterweight to the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization which Robertson maintains is "hostile to traditional American values," though the two groups have worked together on some cases[1]. Its initials were chosen to resemble those of the ACLU as much as possible.

The next time they called I said, "I'm sorry.  I dislike Pat Robertson.  I think he is dishonest and a bigot, and I am not interested in hearing any message from his organization."  There was silence at the other end of the line and then a "click" as she hung up.  Needless to say, they haven't called again.

Now, seeing the teabaggers sandbagging my congressman (Lloyd Doggett) I wish I had given her a chance to say her peace. 

I'm wondering if anyone else got a call from them, particularly in Austin, and what the calls were about.  The "literally life and death" line makes me think they were along the lines of "Obama wants to kill old people."  Anyone?

*I can't remember who X was, but I she said he was a former Solicitor General of the United States or something similar.