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Philadelphia punishes Boy Scouts because of their
Topic Started: Oct 20 2007, 04:22 PM (125 Views)
greatwhiteelkhunter
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Philadelphia punishes Boy Scouts because of their beliefs

Dear Mountain

The city of Philadelphia has decided to punish the Boy Scouts of America because it will not allow homosexuals to serve as Scout Leaders. City officials said they will charge the Cradle of Liberty Scouts Council $200,000 a year to use the city-owned headquarters. The Council was paying $1 per year (since 1928). The city owns the land on which the Council's 1928 Beaux Arts building sits.

The city says it is charging the scouts $200,000 a year because the scouts discriminate against homosexuals. But the city finds nothing wrong with their discrimination against the scouts because of the scouts' belief.

The action by city officials means that 30 new Cub Scout packs won't be organized, and that 800 needy kids will not be going to the Council's summer camp if the city charges them $200,000.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that the scouts, as a private group, have a First Amendment right to bar homosexuals from membership. Philadelphia officials, in an effort to appease the homosexual activists, began searching for a way to punish the scouts. The rent increase was the vehicle to do that.

The Cradle of Liberty Council serves about 64,000 scouts in Philadelphia and its suburbs.


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I sent mine.
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STEVEN1
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PC at its worst. Punish a bunch of kids to appease a group who had their feelings hurt. The scouts are about good moral values and shouldn't be used to push through someone's political agenda (or vendetta). Can't they see that the scouts were getting kids off the street where they could get in trouble or mixed up with the wrong people and into something more positive? Apparently not.
My KC council has been sponsoring a scout troop for 70 years now. We pay the rent on their scout hut, helped rebuild their camping cabin after Katrina, and pay for several scouts to attend camp every summer. We even help pay the insurance on the camp where they go for outings. Heck, back in my younger days I was a member of this troop and my dad was a scout leader. It just makes me made to know these kids in Philly are being treated the way they are.
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STEVEN1,Oct 22 2007
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PC at its worst. Punish a bunch of kids to appease a group who had their feelings hurt. The scouts are about good moral values and shouldn't be used to push through someone's political agenda (or vendetta). Can't they see that the scouts were getting kids off the street where they could get in trouble or mixed up with the wrong people and into something more positive? Apparently not.
My KC council has been sponsoring a scout troop for 70 years now. We pay the rent on their scout hut, helped rebuild their camping cabin after Katrina, and pay for several scouts to attend camp every summer. We even help pay the insurance on the camp where they go for outings. Heck, back in my younger days I was a member of this troop and my dad was a scout leader. It just makes me made to know these kids in Philly are being treated the way they are.

AND Secular Progressives doing what they do best - shoving the PC down everyone's throats and wronging the right that has been in place for years.

STEVEN, you are right - these groups provide great moral values and keep kids off the streets and out of trouble. These PC's and SP's just do not see the light in what helps the kids in this country grow up and be molded into fine American citizens.

Hat's off to you and your KC group! And to other groups like the Lions and Veteran's organizations that support these organizations that help teach our kids right and wrong - heck many have parents that aren't and most the darn schools aren't.
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