9th circuit hears Boy Scouts case

whitierdailynews.com ^ | 2-20-06 | By Marshall Allen Staff Writer

[chainsaw]

Ths scouts might just as well work out comparable arrangements with a church group or organization, get private land made available for their good works.

Didn't the Scouts use to use land owned by Phillips Petroleum in New Mexico?

[Smartaleck]

Be interesting to see how this all plays out.

What if the Klan wanted to rent space? No, some say because they discriminate.
But what if the Klan wants a permit to demonstrate, courts have said you have to let them. What's the difference?

[markman46]

I have been camping here as a boy scout some 30yrs ago, it was cool then, I am sure with all the inprovemnts it's better not, also ther was a girl scout camp not far away we use to sneek to and check out the girls. BOO HISS on the ACLU and the 9th circus.

[Rakkasan1]

that counts as "jurisprudence" in Kalifornia...
what about the Dancing Ito' s??

[muawiyah]

Actually, the ACLU could be identified as a group of "illegal combatants", and all of their members rounded up and shipped to Guantanimo.

[reagandemo]

"Actually, the ACLU could be identified as a group of "illegal combatants", and all of their members rounded up and shipped to Guantanimo."

Nope I would not subject our fine troops to such filth. There is only so much a decent person should have to put up with!

[festus]

The leftist want the scouts to either become a farm team for San Francisco or else to go away.

[festus]

Illegal combatants might be a stretch but supporting terrorist and terroristic activity isn't. Should freeze their assets and arrest their leaders just like the Holy Land Foundation etc. that the Mooslimbs are running.

[muawiyah]

Maybe they could fall out of the plane on the trip to Cuba.

[reagandemo]

"Maybe they could fall out of the plane on the trip to Cuba."

Oh no do you want Greenpeace on your case? That is polluting the oceans. That will never do.

[muawiyah]

Well, maybe they kind of "fall short" and just fill in a breach in the levee in New Orleans.

[reagandemo]

I was thinking of putting t-shirts with the cartoon of Mohammad on them and then dropping them off in Pakistan.

[lOKKI]

I think that the ACLU claim, as best I understand it is nebulous. I would think that a certain minimal amount of reference to a divine being has to be permitted..... after all our money says "In God we trust".

Does THAT imply the endorsement of a divine being that is prohibited by the constitution? I'm sure that the ACLU's case is more complex than that but I think it shows that there was no intent to ban any mention of a God.

This comes down to the ACLU's punishment of an organization which doesn't like queers around young boys.

[UPcrawfish]

PHILMONT... Cimmeron New Mexico

http://www.scouting.org/philmont/main.shtml

Premier outdoor Scouting experience. 10's of thousands of acres in the Sangre De Christo Mtn range. (OH, that translates to "Blood Of Christ" dosen't it?) Land was donated by the Phillips family to the Boy Scouts in perpetuity.

My troop has used 'phone-bank and speed dials" to get on the list for "next years" slots. Usually treks are filled within minutes of the opening for the seasons reservations.

[Tax-chick]

The Phillips brothers (not the company they owned) gave Philmont Ranch to the BSA. They also donated a number of other significant properties to the State of Oklahoma, the City of Tulsa, and other entities. It seems Frank and Waite liked to buy and build properties, but then they got bored with them and gave them away! Nice folks :-).

[reagandemo]

Ahhh Philmont. I was a part of crew 615-P last summer. Our crew did 85 miles visiting places like Baldy, Cimmeron Ceto, Pablano Ruins, Tooth of Time. We save mule deer, bear, rattle snakes.I would not trade the experience for anything!

[RonF]

I predict that the BSA will loose in the 9th District and win in the SC on appeal.

Me too.

A waste of BSA money that could have been spent on helping boys.

Which I figure is part of the strategy. First, to deny the BSA access to public facilities and resources wherever possible. Second, to bleed money from the BSA by forcing it to spend money on lawyers instead of the Scouts they exist to serve.

[reagandemo]

ACLU strategy = sue their adversaries into bankruptcy.

[SandRat]

The ACLU works to....bleed money from the BSA by forcing it to spend money on lawyers instead of the Scouts they exist to serve>

Just reinforces the truth in the association of the ACLU and NAMBLA!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Bringing any case that involves morals, ethics or freedom to the 9th Circuit is like playing Russian Roulette with 5 in the cylinder.