Posted on 04/04/2007 12:37:15 PM PDT by RB2
Statement of Boy Scouts of America: Court Rules Boy Scout Jamboree to Go Forward
IRVING, Texas, April 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Boy Scouts of America is pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed the ACLU's lawsuit against the Department of Defense for supporting the National Scout Jamboree. For more than 25 years, Boy Scouts have held the National Scout Jamboree every four years at Fort A.P. Hill near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Scouts from all over the country camp together for ten days and participate in activities emphasizing physical fitness, appreciation of the outdoors, and patriotism. Seven Presidents have attended the Jamboree since President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. The Jamboree grounds at Fort A.P. Hill are open to the public, and an estimated 300,000 visitors attended in 2005 along with 43,000 Scouts and their leaders. The 2010 Jamboree will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Boy Scouts of America. The United States Congress has found that the military's logistical support for the National Scout Jamboree is an incomparable training opportunity for our armed forces. The Jamboree requires the construction, maintenance, and disassembly of a "tent city" capable of supporting tens of thousands of people for a week or longer. Nevertheless, the ACLU sued the Department of Defense in 1999 over its support for the Jamboree. In 2005, a federal district court in Chicago concluded the Jamboree statute (10 U.S.C. section 2554) was unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause because Scouting has a nonsectarian "duty to God" requirement. DoD appealed the district court's injunction against military support under that statute for the 2010 Jamboree. In today's ruling, the federal Court of Appeals in Chicago reversed the district court's decision, concluding that the taxpayers named as the plaintiffs in the lawsuit did not have standing to sue DoD in the first place. "We are pleased that today's ruling preserves the training opportunity for the military that Congress wanted it to have," said Robert H. Bork, Jr., spokesperson for the Scouts. "Today's decision allows everyone to get back to planning the centennial Jamboree celebrating Boy Scouts' 100th birthday," said George A. Davidson, the attorney for Boy Scouts of America who argued before the Seventh Circuit last year. The case is Winkler v. Gates, No. 05-3451 (7th Cir. Apr. 4, 2007).
Excellent!
A little sanity goes a long way sometimes. I love it when the ACLU gets their butt kicked by the court.
For more than 25 years, Boy Scouts have held the National Scout Jamboree every four years at Fort A.P. Hill near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Scouts from all over the country camp together for ten days and participate in activities emphasizing physical fitness, appreciation of the outdoors, and patriotism. Seven Presidents have attended the Jamboree since President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. The Jamboree grounds at Fort A.P. Hill are open to the public, and an estimated 300,000 visitors attended in 2005 along with 43,000 Scouts and their leaders. The 2010 Jamboree will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Boy Scouts of America.
The United States Congress has found that the militarys logistical support for the National Scout Jamboree is an incomparable training opportunity for our armed forces. The Jamboree requires the construction, maintenance, and disassembly of a tent city capable of supporting tens of thousands of people for a week or longer.
Nevertheless, the ACLU sued the Department of Defense in 1999 over its support for the Jamboree. In 2005, a federal district court in Chicago concluded the Jamboree statute (10 U.S.C. § 2554) was unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause because Scouting has a nonsectarian duty to God requirement. DoD appealed the district courts injunction against military support under that statute for the 2010 Jamboree.
In todays ruling, the federal Court of Appeals in Chicago reversed the district courts decision, concluding that the taxpayers named as the plaintiffs in the lawsuit did not have standing to sue DoD in the first place.
We are pleased that todays ruling preserves the training opportunity for the military that Congress wanted it to have, said Robert H. Bork, Jr., spokesperson for the Scouts.
Todays decision allows everyone to get back to planning the centennial Jamboree celebrating Boy Scouts 100th birthday, said George A. Davidson, the attorney for Boy Scouts of America who argued before the Seventh Circuit last year.
The case is Winkler v. Gates, No. 05-3451 (7th Cir. Apr. 4, 2007).
Anti-American Communist Libertine Union.....
Hallelujah! I hope this is just the beginning of lots of ACLU failures.
Is that Judge Bork’s son who is quoted as a spokesman for the Scouts?
Another of America’s internal enemies....thanks to FDR and his communist buddies for the ACLU.
The sad part is they won on a technicality of standing. I am glad they won, but this won’t stop the ACLU in the future from finding someone with standing.
Great! Nice to know they don’t always win.
WOW! Thats a shocker!
BINGO.
In seriousness now, what more honorable youth organization
do we have in this country, than the Boy Scouts? And are
there groups that are more wretched, wastes of human flesh,
than the ACLU and their pet project, NAMBLA?
"I'll kick the The Boy Scouts of America out on their ass ! "
Ping.
What's that around her neck? A doily from her grandmother's parlor?
A step in the right direction. Hopefully the site can be retained for many jambo’s to come.
Frankly, it’s not my favorite site. Hot and humid when Jambo is run, and if it rains the place is a sea of clay mud. I wish they would find a site farther north with sandy soil that drains a lot better.
For those who havent seen this yet:
BSA Tribute to the Military
http://www.bsalegal.org/tribute-to-the-military-293.asp
You want to see hot and humid try summer camp in Florida in June and July. It’s drink , drink the water and stay in the shade. Our troop has good sense we take July off its just too hot. We could suggest to them that they move jambo to South Florida in say November or February. The weather is nice and cool then and we have plenty of sand.
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