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Attempt to ban Boy Scout recruiting in schools rejected
CNN ^
| 12/12/2002
| Associated Press
Posted on 12/12/2002 1:38:43 PM PST by RonF
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SALEM, Oregon (AP) -- A state appeals court on Wednesday rejected an atheist mother's effort to prevent the Boy Scouts from recruiting in schools because the organization requires a belief in God.
The three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals, upholding a lower-court ruling, said allowing the Boy Scouts of America to make brief in-school presentations with no religious content doesn't violate the state constitution's ban on government involvement with religion.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsalist
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posted on
12/12/2002 1:38:44 PM PST
by
RonF
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To: RonF
Actually, the mother's whole premise is wrong. There's nothing unconstitutional about the government's promoting religious belief in general, as long as the government(actually Congress) doesn't try to establish a national religion. That's why President Bush's faith-based program ideas are just fine constitutionally. We've sunk to a low low when we think we have to shun organizations like the Boy Scouts who promote religious belief in general.
To: RonF
The case stems from a 1998 lawsuit brought by Nancy Powell after scout recruiters visited her son's Portland elementary school.Up yours, Nancy!
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To: RonF
Score one against the Talibatheists and their "Dog in the Manger" mentality.
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posted on
12/12/2002 1:50:02 PM PST
by
FormerLib
To: RonF
Note to Nancy: Bite me, Loser!
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posted on
12/12/2002 1:52:23 PM PST
by
Area51
To: RonF
Yay! Score one for the BSA!
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posted on
12/12/2002 2:09:04 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: RonF
To the athiest mother,you not only are a "mother"but are in the minority and therefore DON'T COUNT!
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To: RonF
Of course, the Boy Scouts are now a target of the homosexual activists so there's a lot of money, coming from this "oppressed" minority, behind such attacks.
To: RonF
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To: madg
But other schools HAVE stop such recruiting, and those decision have passed muster as well. The Federal Equal Access act regards use of facilities, not access to schoolchildren. Right? How about leaving it up to the parents of the kids in the school to determine whether they want the Boy Scouts recruiting in the school?
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To: RonF
This woman would probably get her son a gay mentor who molests him rather then he join the boy scouts and find god.
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posted on
12/12/2002 4:04:30 PM PST
by
Sonny M
To: madg
if we're talking about public schools, I am a taxpayer, therefor I get a say.You certainly do not deserve one. The parents deserve the only say that should matter. You see, we truly have our children's best interest at heart.
Stay safe; stay armed.
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posted on
12/12/2002 4:12:55 PM PST
by
Eaker
To: madg
But now to asnwer YOUR question... if we're talking about public schools, I am a taxpayer, therefor I get a say. Sure you do. You vote for your Board of Ed members just like anyone else. But if the townspeople vote for board members who represent their collective wish to have the Boy Scouts recruit in school, what's wrong with that?
To: RonF
Did this woman have nothing better to do than get her knickers in a twist because the Boy Scouts showed up at her son's school? She needs to get a life!
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posted on
12/12/2002 4:19:21 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: madg; FormerLib
Of course, the Boy Scouts are now a target of the homosexual activists so there's a lot of money, coming from this "oppressed" minority, behind such attacks.
If one starts at the top of this page... and searches out [CNTRL-F] the very first use of "homo"... one will be directed to YOUR post. Funny, that.
No actually, it's not. A lot a good people have been completely smeared by homosexual activists as haters and bigots, for simply believing it's not prudent to have homosexual men take their teenage sons out camping overnight in their absence. Never has a good organization like Boy Scouts been so vilified and attacked by such intolerant people.
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