Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist introduced legislation this month stipulating that no federal law, directive, rule, instruction or order should limit any federal agency from providing support to the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, including meetings held on federal property. "To this legislator, the ACLU's continued attacks on the Boy Scouts is starting to become its own form of persecution," said the Tennessee Republican, a former Scout, in a floor speech Nov. 20, news reports said.
A good beginning by Sen Frist, but more needs to be done. We, the people, should get behind a succession of legislative initiatives that would give Boy Scouts official federal status, perhaps have Scouts from different areas do a flag-ceremony before each session of Congress, and at Presidential events, like inaugurals, Chrisrmas tree-lighting ceremonies, and the like.
Scouting should receive perhaps federal Departmental-level status to give Scouts offical status as a paradigm American organization that advances US principles. President Bush might issue Executive Orders reagrding Scouting.
Once and for all we need to shield Scouts from persecution and from visceral haters like gays and the ACLU.
for my record