Posted on 02/11/2006 9:58:48 AM PST by Jay777
An ACLU lawsuit on behalf of an agnostic, lesbian couple seeking to nullify the Boy Scouts’ long-standing lease with a San Diego park will be heard in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, widely regarded as the nation’s most liberal.
The city of San Diego is appealing a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling in 2003, which determined the agreement violates the First Amendment’s ban on state-sponsored religion.
Oral arguments will begin Tuesday morning in Pasadena, Calif. A decision is expected later this year.
Judge Napoleon Jones said in his 2003 ruling the Boy Scouts are a religious organization with a “religious purpose” because adult leaders and youth members are required to believe in a “formal deity” and to swear duty to God.
Backers of the Boy Scouts argue that while the group promotes belief in God, it represents no particular denomination or religion. Individual troops can be sponsored by a church, synagogue, mosque or secular organization.
The local Desert Pacific Council of the Boy Scouts has used the northwest corner of Balboa Park, near the San Diego Zoo, since 1940. It has leased the land for $1 a year since 1957, and the city council approved a 25-year lease agreement at the end of 2001.
The Boy Scouts argue Camp Balboa and a nearby city facility maintained at their expense, the Youth Aquatic Center, are used extensively on a first-come, first-served basis by the public as well as by Scouts. The plaintiffs have never even tried to use the facilities, they maintain.
The ACLU represents Lori and Lynn Barnes-Wallace and their “Boy Scout-aged sons.”
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These people are despicable wastes of skin.
Lesbians going after Scouts just evokes the incident in Lot where the lusty citizens of Sodom wanted to get to 'know' the two Strangers Lot was harboring. Where is this leading to?
Just keep it up ninth circuit. You are personally destroying the Democrat party.
Considering this is the Ninth Circuit, the Scouts will lose this one. They can find another venue, probably at no greater cost. In short, the Scouts will survive. With any luck, the ACLU will not.
The ACLU supports the rights of NAMBLA while fighting against the Boy Scouts of America. It's sickening and ironic, boys are the victims of NAMBLA.
Soon, it will be "America vs. The ACLU" as they are taken to court, defunded and dissolved.
Really? What are we waiting on?
Amen!
Good Call! Cal-infierno has morally already slid into the sea.
Why can't people just leave the Boy Scouts alone?
There's already a bill proposed that would ctop their public funding, but it needs to go farther than that.
Any "judge" or "lawyer" that thinks that this agreement "violates the First Amendment’s ban on state-sponsored religion" has definitely molested too many little boys and done way too many recreational drugs.
Ping for the list(homosexual agenda)
Mega Dittos
The jihadis in the ACLU should be rounded up and shipped to Saudi. They'd all be much better off as real Moslem terrorists rather than just a bunch of wannabees.
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