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Eagle Scout ordered to take God out of park project
KUSA News 9
| 12/21/2007 6:06:39 PM
| John Fosholt
Posted on 12/24/2007 10:53:00 AM PST by fgoodwin
Eagle Scout ordered to take God out of park project
I can't post the article, but basically it mentions a Boy Scout's Eagle project for a public park that included a mention of God.
After the inevitable complaint, the Parks Dept, which approved the original proposal with "God" included, asked the Scout to remove the offending marker.
TOPICS: Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Skeptics/Seekers
KEYWORDS: ascoutisreverent; atheists; boyscouts; dutytogod; eaglescout; god; scouting; scouts
I hope posting the title & link doesn't violate the FR TOS.
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posted on
12/24/2007 10:53:04 AM PST
by
fgoodwin
To: SandRat
Please ping your Scouting list.
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posted on
12/24/2007 10:53:36 AM PST
by
fgoodwin
(Fundamentalist, right-wing nut and proud father of a Life Scout!)
To: RonF; AppauledAtAppeasementConservat; Looking for Diogenes; Congressman Billybob; Pan_Yans Wife; ...
Sy WHAT!!!!!
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posted on
12/24/2007 10:59:29 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: fgoodwin
Forwarded this to Liberty Counsel. Don’t be surprised if this decision is reversed in the next two weeks.
To: fgoodwin
Norman Rockwell would be jailed in today’s America.
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posted on
12/24/2007 11:23:55 AM PST
by
Cagey
(Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.......Thoreau)
To: fgoodwin
"But the personal expression is not appropriate on public property." With this logic, they could just as easily ban free speech on public property because it represents a personal expression. Free speech only on private property and only if nobody else hears it.
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posted on
12/24/2007 1:39:51 PM PST
by
Tai_Chung
To: fgoodwin
"Somebody can be offended by something, and be able, with a single complaint, to turn a whole city against us."What America's come to.
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posted on
12/24/2007 4:16:25 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: fgoodwin
I wrote this up as an ACLU Outrage for the website of the American Civil Rights Union. I suggested that the solution for the anonymous jogger who got his panties in a bunch was not to remove the "God stone." Instead, another stone should have been added that says, "If you are offended by the previous stone, we suggest that you ignore it, and get on with your crabbed, pathetic life."
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