Posted on 03/21/2012 9:43:32 PM PDT by SmithL
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The city must pay nearly $900,000 after a failed effort to evict the Boy Scouts of America because of the group's ban on gays, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The post-trial ruling is just the latest twist in a decade-long legal dispute over the Boy Scout oath, which requires members to be "morally straight."
The two sides have sought a compromise that would let the local Boy Scouts chapter keep its rent-free, city-owned headquarters without violating the national Scout policy.
However, a tentative deal struck since the city lost a court case last year has fallen apart. U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter therefore said the city must pay $877,000 for the Scouts' legal fees.
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I was just pointing out that times change and that what was once mainstream and ordinary in the northeast US (the KKK was far more active in NY , NJ , PA than in the south) at the time that the BSA built and donated this building is unthinkable today. The BSA was and is far more honorable than it’s contemporaries back then and obviously NOW when they are fighting for the right of self determination. Sorry the point was lost on you , I thought it was self explainatory.
They are Evil and mentally sick. It’s quite simple. Psychopaths were would rather give each other (and now us, they want to donate blood) AIDS than try to live a normal life. They like AIDS, they have parties to give it and get it. And they hate normalcy and normal people.
A real slap in the face to the same-sexers and a blow to their quest to access little boys. Finally, the homo agenda suffers a defeat.
Boy scouts YAY! ping
A triple YAY!! at the very least!
The Democrats running the place tried to intimidate and browbeat and extort the Boy Scouts into signing up homos to take little boys off into the woods, ...
Don’t forget United Way has had a hand in all of this.If you give to charity, give it straight up to them, not to bundlers like United Way
Right, that’s the problem with cases like this. These council members won’t lose a dime personally, but the taxpayers are on the hook.
The problem is - that was legal fees. I’m not sure the scouts get to take home the money.
However - it is nice to see the city get it’s just desserts.
The real nasty part was the tone of this article. No - the reporter wasn’t biased! Sheesh!
Excellent !
Yippee Kai Yeah !!!!!
Boy Scouts = Good, Trustworthy, Honest
I’m really glad the liberals lost on this one.
Great news! Thanks for the flag.
let the lidtards whinge and whine....
YAY! And I’ll raise you a YIPPEE!
I’ve found in Chicago that even the most corrupt politicians have a soft spot in their heart for the Boy Scouts.
I’ve found in Chicago that even the most corrupt politicians have a soft spot in their heart for the Boy Scouts.
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