Attempt to ban Boy Scout recruiting in schools rejected

CNN ^ | 12/12/2002 | Associated Press

[RonF]

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.

[Guillermo]

People need to stand up to these bullies who try to destroy you because you don't believe exactly as they.

[yendu bwam]

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!

Like the homosexuals, many atheists feel the need to vilify the Boy Scouts. They are making enemies out of a great many people. They need to be more tolerant.

[Guillermo]

You have become our own resident Homofascist, haven't you. People are starting to stand up to the Gaystapo, thankfully.

[judgeandjury]

The scout oath and principles require belief in God, and Powell argued the school district was illegally involved with religious activity by allowing the organization to present membership information on school premises.

Using this reasoning, Powell could also argue that any teacher who has a belief in God shouldn't be allowed to teach in her son's school district.

[Guillermo]

Talk about a non-sequiter.

Don't you have some GLSEN meeting to go to, or some Boy Scout troop to harass?

[judgeandjury]

And if taxpayers say: "Don't give the BSA access to the children," what's wrong with that?

If a majority of taxpayers in a school district feel that way, that's one thing. But if only one or two taxpayers in a school district feel that way, then that's too bad for them. The minority doesn't tell the majority how things are going to be. Just because somebody is a taxpayer doesn't necessarily mean that they personally get to decide how their tax money is going to be spent.

[Lurker]

Wow, so you just get to take his (or her)money at the point of a government gun, and then allow the victim of your government sponsored robbery no say at all in how the money you helped steal is spent.

How very 'conservative' of you....

L

[Lurker]

"The minority doesn't tell the majority how things are going to be."

I think the German Reichstag felt the very same way in about 1939.

But hey, who cares about the minority view right? If they don't like it, we can just point guns at them until they shut up. And if they don't shut up, well we'll just give them a free ride in the American version of the Stolipin car, right comrade?

After all, you're the majority and that makes whatever you do alright doesn't it.

L

[Guillermo]

Oh, of course, I'm a homosexual now, because, according to your logic, I don't subscribe to, and in fact oppose, the Homofascist agenda.

Members of the Gaystapo are the angriest, bitterest people out there.

[FormerLib]

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.

Speak the truth and shame the Devil!

[FormerLib]

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.

Of course, they want someone else's children to be sent out with the deviants!

Never has a good organization like Boy Scouts been so vilified and attacked by such intolerant people.

Yes, but I guess it takes a "bigot" such as we to note that fact.

[Dante3]

Good point.

Schools have a variety of organizations that exclude someone.

[FormerLib]

He's merely the most recent in a long line of sexually misdirected posters. They have a need to see their perversion normalized. Soon, he/she/it will begin to realize that their deviance will never gain acceptance and they either move on or seek reparative therapy. We can only hope, for the sake of their souls, that they choose the latter.

[yendu bwam]

I would say that it is the BSA that has been "smearing"... IE: "kicking out... folks for no good reason.

The rapes and molestations of thousands of teenage Catholic boys by homosexual priests would, to most, suggest otherwise. - - The fact is, homosexual activists (I did not mention YOU in my posts there, magd, and please don't pretend otherwise) have sought to smear and destroy an organization that does great good for millions of boys and families. These activists ARE among the most intolerant people in America today. Further, they hurt their own cause gravely by being so. Homosexuals do NOT have an intrinsic right to be in close quarters with other people's teenage sons.