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ACLU Loses In Latest Boy Scout Attack
Stop The ACLU ^ | 9 Sep 06 | John Stephenson

Posted on 09/09/2006 6:54:19 PM PDT by Jay777

Via BSALegal.Org

An atheist mother represented by the ACLU complained that allowing Boy Scouts to recruit in public schools on the same basis as other groups discriminated against her atheist son who attends Portland public schools. In today's decision reversing a lower court decision, the Oregon Supreme Court emphatically concluded that "nothing that occurred in any public school program, service, or activity was discriminatory at all."

"Giving Boy Scouts equal access is not discrimination," said Scouting spokesperson Robert H. Bork, Jr. "It is the law."

"The First Amendment and two federal statues require that Boy Scouts be given the same access to school facilities as other youth or community organizations," said Boy Scouts' attorney George A. Davidson. If the lower court's decision had been upheld, "every school district in Oregon would have been in jeopardy of losing federal funding."

Read more details at BSALegal.Org

This is a ridiculous lawsuit in the first place. I feel bad for the judges that had to listen to the arguments in this one. It seems to me that it was a "no duh" equal access case, and the Oregon Supreme Court came to the same conclusion. Thank goodness this case was dealt with using common sense.

Listen to the ridiculous response from the executive director of the Oregon ACLU.

David Fidanque, executive director of the Oregon ACLU, said the ruling turned on a technical definition of what constitutes discrimination in the schools.

In theory, he argued, a hate group such as the Ku Klux Klan could make a presentation in an Oregon school about joining, and it would not be discrimination as long as it didn't mention it restricts membership to white people.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: aclu; boyscouts; bsa; bsalist; culturewars; godhaters; goodnews; homosexualagenda; perverts; warongenesis
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Not only is this an unfair and disgraceful attempt to compare the BSA's policy to discriminate based on their moral code to a group that promotes hate and racism, but it is an inaccurate and losing argument. The Boy Scouts are not saying that all atheists are bad people they are simply saying that being an atheist is not compatable with being a Boy Scout. Discriminating membership to an organization does not equate to promoting hate against those that are excluded. This argument is completely false anyway.

The ACLU's hateful war against the BSA is one more good reason to support the Public Expression of Religion Act. Let's stop paying the ACLU to destroy America and freedom.

1 posted on 09/09/2006 6:54:20 PM PDT by Jay777
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To: RepCath; Liz; IronJack; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP; Iris7; wkdaysoff; EdReform; Nick Danger; ...
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2 posted on 09/09/2006 6:56:21 PM PDT by Jay777 (My personal blog: www.stoptheaclu.com)
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To: Jay777

Any loss for the ACLU is a win for Americans.


3 posted on 09/09/2006 6:57:29 PM PDT by BW2221
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4 posted on 09/09/2006 6:59:01 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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Gotta love this!!!!!


5 posted on 09/09/2006 7:02:16 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Jay777

"David Fidanque, executive director of the Oregon ACLU, said the ruling turned on a technical definition of what constitutes discrimination in the schools.

"In theory, he argued, a hate group such as the Ku Klux Klan . . ."
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What about a HATE GROUP like the ACLU?


6 posted on 09/09/2006 7:03:22 PM PDT by sandra_789
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To: BW2221

Soros needs to fire his lawyers and get some new ones.


7 posted on 09/09/2006 7:04:04 PM PDT by sandra_789
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To: dynachrome

FANTASTIC graphic!!


8 posted on 09/09/2006 7:05:38 PM PDT by submarinerswife
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To: Jay777

Suppose they decided being a black kid was a basis for not being a scout, either. Would they still be allowed to recruit at schools? what does believing in a Sky God have to do with learning to pitch a tent? Is the BSA teaching self-reliance or religion?


9 posted on 09/09/2006 7:05:54 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: Jay777
From "A Dummies Guide to Understanding the Fourteenth Amendment":
It is also important to consider what privileges or immunities we are dealing with since a citizen has both privileges or immunities belonging to citizens of the United States and those given to him by a State Constitution and laws.

In 1871 Bingham's home State of Ohio highest Court considered the question of whether the State had retained the right to establish separate schools for colored children under the Fourteenth Amendment. In the case of Garnes v. McCan, et al. (21 Ohio State Reports) had unanimously decided by a all Republican court that all privileges to a State school system are derived solely from the Constitution and laws of the State. "The privileges or immunities under the Fourteenth Amendment are those recognized by the US Constitution and belonging to US Citizens, and not those privileges or immunities that are the result of a State Constitution and laws belonging to citizens of a State," the court concluded.

"Equality of rights does not involve the necessity of educating white and colored persons in the same school any more than it does of educating children of both sexes in the same school, or that different grades of scholars must be kept in the same school," the court further added. What is important with this decision is the fact Bingham himself considered the courts ruling "just and proper" when later asked by Garfield if he had agreed with the court's interpretation under the new amendment to the Constitution.


10 posted on 09/09/2006 7:06:01 PM PDT by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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P!$$ on the aclu , you commie b@$t@rd$


11 posted on 09/09/2006 7:06:08 PM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( I.S.L.A.M. stands for - Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
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Whoops! That FANTASTIC graphic reply was meant for you, dynachrome.
12 posted on 09/09/2006 7:07:27 PM PDT by submarinerswife
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When is the ACLU going to stop molesting the Boy Scouts?


13 posted on 09/09/2006 7:08:32 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: lionheart 247365
Never mind the terrorists, attack the Boy Scouts. Great strategy
14 posted on 09/09/2006 7:08:46 PM PDT by Phibes
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To: wagglebee

Another article about the BSA winning and the disgusting ACLU losing.


15 posted on 09/09/2006 7:09:13 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: submarinerswife

I stole it right here on FR. I only steal from the best! :)


16 posted on 09/09/2006 7:09:39 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: gcruse

When is the ACLU going to stop molesting the Boy Scouts?


17 posted on 09/09/2006 7:10:06 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

LOL!


18 posted on 09/09/2006 7:12:29 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: dynachrome
I stole it right here on FR. I only steal from the best! :)

Keeping it within the family, eh? Great graphic, though. It should be posted every time the ACLU is mentioned.
19 posted on 09/09/2006 7:19:53 PM PDT by submarinerswife
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To: submarinerswife; Salvation

One for the oregon ping...


20 posted on 09/09/2006 7:22:14 PM PDT by Der_Hirnfänger
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