Posted on 11/09/2005 10:13:38 AM PST by Jay777
For every one dropped a church pick it up.
Absolutely!
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)
American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
ACLU ping
Accused Terrorist Wrote School Guidelines with ACLU
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1052017/posts
FBI says it has files on ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445131/posts
The Truth About The American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1261888/posts
VOUCHERS!
Yeah, I wish the FBI would release those Files, and state the charges. This organization needs to go down.
Exactly! There are always churches with facilities for meetings. Let churches step up to the plate and sponsor BS troops. Kind of takes the wind out of argumanets about forcing the BS to forego publicly pledging respect for God for fear of offending the ears of an atheist.
I second that!
What is "feared" from these lawsuits? At worst, the ACLU could make the schools drop their sponsorship. Well, the schools did that voluntarily. So what was the "fear" factor?
This "fearing lawsuits" has become the spineless cop-out of our century, IMO.
I am not sure I disagree with the results. Scouting most assuredly belongs in the churches. The children and their needs will be met in all areas.
Having said that, I think the ACLU is a despicable organization whose funding should be stopped immediately.
Not just churches. My sons pack was supported by a police department until ACLU intimidation forced them to drop it. The police officers were so angry at the result that they had their UNION pick up the charter :-)
As I understand it, there have only been a couple of packs nationwide that have disbanded because of this type of action by the ACLU, and they were marginal even before losing their sponsor. Most packs faced with losing their sponsors have no problem finding someone else...a church, a community group, or even a company, to become their chartering organization.
As much as the ACLU despises the Scouts, most Americans still support it. As long as that's the case, these packs and Troops will continue to exist.
This infuriates me....... People need to get together to crush the ACLU. Somebody needs to contact Bill Oreilly about this!
Our Pack and Troop does not have a charter organization. For various reasons, we wanted to remain independent so we are chartered by "Friends of Pack 518" Guess who the "friends" are?
All the members.
Prior to 1998 or 1999, the Boy Scouts had a co-ed program called "Explorers." Two of the most popular options were firefighting Explorers and law enforcement Explorers, and Explorer Posts usually had local Fire Stations or Police Departments as chartered organizations. After losing lawsuits to the ACLU because the Explorers' oath required belief in a Supreme Being, the BSA moved Exploring to its subsidiary, Learning For Life, which does not require belief in a Supreme Being.
BSA replaced Exploring with Venturing, a co-ed high adventure program for youth 14-21 (not to be confused with the old Venture patrols in Boy Scout Troops).
Schools and PTAs that had served as chartered organizations for Cub Scout Packs and Boy Scout Troops started to drop them earnestly beginning in the same era, based on both the ACLU lawsuits and the no-gay-leaders issues.
While it is true that churches (or police unions, for example) stepped forward to serve as chartered organizations, the loss of schools as COs hurt Scouting in urban areas. It was much easier for boy to stay after school for a Den, Pack, Troop, or Post meeting than to expect an urban youth to go to a church that afternoon, or to return to a church or other location that evening.
All of the minor decreases in Scouting youth enrollment pointed to from time to time by the ACLU since 1998 are the result of major loss of youth membership in a few major urban areas, not quite offset by large growth in all other areas.
Cyclotic, my Pack, Troop, and Crew are all self-chartered -- 25 years ago, the parents and former Scouts formed a nonprofit corporation solely for the purpose of chartering Scouting groups. We were lucky enough to own land and a Scout Hut that had been donated by a parent in the past. We have our share of internal politics, but it beats educating a new minister, principal, or union president about what a Scouting program is and should be.
Would stay longer, but I'm off to a meeting on the 2007 World Jamboree -- the 100th Anniversary of Scouting!
SUPPORT SCOUTING!
Public schools are no place for American children anyway. Too many sexual pervert teachers hang out there to prey on our children.
Thanks,
Enjoy the Jamboree.
Scouting is an organization that I dropped out of when I was 10. Dumb mistake. I now have a Tiger and a Webelo.
Scouting is an organization that I become more and more impressed with. I'm now a den leader (tiger), asst. den leader (Webelo), Asst. Cubmaster (planning on a hostile takeover of the Pack in 2 years when the Cubmaster moves on)
300 or so Scouters just met last weekend for University of Scouting leadership training. Great, great stuff.
BTW, if you get this before you go, please write a post and ping me about it on how the World Jamboree went. I'm particularly interested in the progress with Iraqi Scouting programs.
Thanks,
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