Posted on 06/24/2010 12:25:07 PM PDT by mdittmar
I hope the city does have to eat that legal bill. Freedom of association still lives there in Philly...at least for now.
SUCK IT UP!"
It's nice to know that the city is so awash in cash that we can afford to use our courts and solicitors wage nuisance law suits to make our sodomite City Solicitor and our useless mayor.
Well, sometimes it seems evil doesn’t win. I was beginning to get discouraged.
They mention city-owned building a few times but fail to mention that the Scouts built the building at the city’s request and deeded it back to them with the right to rent it for $1 a year. Unfortunately they also gave the city the right to change the terms with one year’s notice and the city did just that.
This is great news too:)
Good. The queers can go stuff each other and leave the Scouts alone. I was a Boy Scout, First Class with a few merit badges. Some of the best days of my boyhood.
“While the good work of the Boy Scouts cannot be disputed, the city remains steadfast in its commitment to prevent its facilities from being used to disadvantage certain groups.”
Their logic is backwards. It is they who think they can legally disadvantage private groups of associated citizens; picking and choosing which citizens groups they will honor on equal terms and which ones they won’t.
There is no honest truth to any idea that the lease given the Boy Scouts is an act of promotion of, or support of the policies of the Boy Scouts.
In such matters, the government MUST be agnostic, neither actively promoting or actively suppressing the points of view of one group of citizens over another.
The city is free to offer the same terms to a youth organization that does not restrict its membership to homosexuals. It is not free to pick and choose between those that do and those that don’t.
I did NOT know that. Thank you for the information!!
“Mayor Nutter said...”
Unless, of course, the "antidiscrimination" policy is discriminatory!
This is worrisome.
Ouch! You have to be kidding me. I think the city should stand by their principles by vacating the building and deeding the building back to the Scouts.
In 1928, the city gave the local Boy Scouts Council permission to build a headquarters building on city land, to be the regional Scout headquarters, with the proviso that the completed building would be city property, which the Scouts could use exclusively for their own activities without having to pay rent. The Scouts also had the obligation to maintain the building. The building was completed in 1929 and has been in continuous use since then. Annual maintenance costs to the Scouts have averaged $60,000 in recent years, and they spent $1.5 million on a major renovation project in 1994. [emphasis added]Source: Leonard Link: Boy Scouts Defeat Dismissal Motion in Philadelphia Headquarters Building Dispute
Scout Victory Ping
A victory for people who believe in being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent!
Do they still have that bell in Philadelphia? The one that’s cracked. Or did they melt that down? Liberty seems to be anathema to the town.
But when you know more than anyone else, you're obligated to tell them what to do and liberty just gets in the way.
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