[GeronL]

The Marina should be privatized

[Jeff Chandler]

The Colon Cowboys are determined to get at those young boys.

[NicknamedBob]

The Scouts should demand reimbursement for the value of the rip-rap, plus interest.

[EagleUSA]

The subversive left and its support for the queer agenda, will backslide into the tarpits of history. The left continues moving to the left, which will eventually put them over the cliff. I am optimistic that their rabid radicalism will wipe them out soon enough.

[Hazcat]

berth at its marina in exchange for rip-rap from a Scout-owned quarry

Can some one please translate into land lubber? Rip-rap??

[King Moonracer]

Since then, as a condition for free occupancy, the city has required tax-exempt users of the marina to enter into a formal written pledge: Access to the facility cannot be predicated on a person's "race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, disability or medical condition."

I wonder if they require people who drop their boat in for the day or rent berths to be non-discriminatory too.

[308MBR]

Being an Eagle Scout myself, I'm glad to see the little Sodomite was expelled. My suggestions are; relocation of the Sea Scouts to the Florida Panhandle area, finding a benefactor to pay the fees at their present dock, building a new berth on private land.

I hope the Supremes back the Scouts, but obviously the good people of Berkeley and the California courts are deluded, have entirely too much time on their hands and far too much of the taxpayer's cash to spend. It's sort of reminescent of the TSA, but I digress.

[Obie Wan]

Not accepting perversion as normal and right is "invidious discrimination."I think the California Supreme Court are a bunch of perverts themselves !!!

[Michael.SF.]

The vessel serves as the equivalent of a BSA troop.

Well, that is not quite right.

The vessel serves as their mode of transportation and the activities of the Scouts center around the vessel. The writer is confusing the word "ship" with "Vessel". In Sea Scouts the word "ship" has two meanings, one being a 'ship' in the traditional sense of the word, the other being synonymous with the word "troop". A group of Boy Scouts is termed a "Troop", a group of Sea Scouts is termed a "ship".

[Chode]

no problem... we want the RipRap BACK or you pay market value. you RENIGED YOU LOSE.

[PistolPaknMama]

So much for freedom of association, also a right protected by the Constitution.

[SandRat]

[King Moonracer]

Seventy years ago the city began giving the Sea Scouts a free berth at its marina in exchange for rip-rap from a Scout-owned quarry.

Then its not a free berth, if they have to exchange rip rap to get it.

[Carry_Okie]

Seventy years ago the city began giving the Sea Scouts a free berth at its marina in exchange for rip-rap from a Scout-owned quarry.

The Scouts argued unsuccessfully in California that the city had denied them their constitutional right to freedom of association.

Huh? Why are the Scouts arguing free association when the city is in breach of contract? When the city offered a perpetual berth in exchange for the rip rap, I'd bet that there was no provision for a change in the deal.

[RonF]

So if the court finds against us, do we get our stone back? Do we get paid for it?

[HiTech RedNeck]

piper PAYERS still call tunes, I think they meant to say