In the 1970s Dalley helped revise the constitution of the Democratic Party at the national level, and also chaired the Equal Rights Coalition in Weber County. Active in the women's movement for many years, Dalley helped establish Ogden's YCC as a one-stop social service provider for women. Born in Pleasant Grove, Dalley grew up in an LDS family of Republicans, but said she left the religion as an adult because of its discrimination against blacks at that time. And I became a Democrat. My work with the ACLU fits in with my point of view that things should be fair.
Human beings are all one species regardless of color or gender.
Founded in 1920 as a national organization, the ACLU works in the courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. The Utah chapter, founded half a century ago by Spencer L. Kimball, son of former LDS Church president Spencer W. Kimball, focuses on constitutional issues that affect Utahns in particular. Some of those issues include freedom of speech and expression, the separation of church and state, freedom of religion, the right to privacy, safe prison and jail conditions and equal protection and due process under the laws. The Bill of Rights is our only client. Many of the cases in Utah revolve around religious discrimination, Dalley said.