[weegee]

The Scouts built the million dollar building. Tear it down if you can’t take it with you.

[Old Sarge]

And no doubt the city will turn the property over to GLAAD.

[edcoil]

Just proves there is too much city-owned facilities.

[AU72]

The BSA should take away the building they built piece by piece.

[weegee]

So the prohibition on religious establishment permits the city to mandate that all persons bow to the religion of political correctness and check your moral principles at the door.

[Argus]

Now the way is cleared for the city council commies to turn the building over to the North American Man-Boy Love Association for their headquarters. Embrace your new gay order, Philadelphians.

[Reagan79]

This brings a new and perverse meaning to the “city of brotherly love.”

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Apparently in Philadelphia good is evil and evil is good. Woe unto them.

[silentreignofheroes]

“The last remaining Men” in Pennsylvania...

[Antoninus]

“At the end of the day, you can not be in a city-owned facility being subsidized by the taxpayers and not have language in your lease that talks about nondiscrimination,” said City Councilman Darrell L. Clarke, who represents the district where the building is located. “Negotiations are over.”

Funny, how they never note that this fellow is "out and proud" himself.

This whole episode is a disgrace. Sodomy triumphs over virtue--this time.

[DesScorp]

Philadelphia stinks with shame today.

[joebuck]

Despite this, I have no doubt the scouts will continue to thrive and survive. I’m not so sure about Philly.

[rbosque]

What are the chances of a gay group tolerating a straight republican at GLAAD? The boy Scouts as ruled by the SCOTUS has a right to free association. P!ss on the left.

[Publius6961]

“At the end of the day, you can not be in a city-owned facility being subsidized by the taxpayers and not have language in your lease that talks about nondiscrimination,” said City Councilman Darrell L. Clarke, who represents the district where the building is located. “Negotiations are over.”

For the moment.

There was a legal agreement for the use of the land.
Most legal agreements are not subject to one of the parties changing the conditions after the fact. I would love to see the Boy Scouts pursue this further and appeal.

How many existing agreements can be rendered useles by arbitrarily changing the rules?

[trumandogz]

Just pay fair market value and be done with it.

[Pietro]

another red banner day for dhimmicrats

[BallyBill]

A Pink Eye for Philly.

The city keeps punishing the wrong people on it's way further down the cesspool.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Philadelphia is wracked with crime and violence.

Yet its loser “leaders” spend time with this. Is it small wonder why the central cities are such a mess? You Democrats get what you vote for.

[Beatthedrum]

Am I missing something ? The BSA don’t want gay men going off on camping trips with young boys. Does that mean if a heterosexual man wanted to go on a camping trip with young girls in the Girl Guides, and they said no - that would be discrimination ???

Does anybody use their freaking brains anymore in this country ?

[sauropod]

For three years the Philadelphia council of the Boy Scouts of America held its ground. It resisted the city’s request to change its discriminatory policy toward gay people despite threats that if it did not do so, the city would evict the group from a municipal building where the Scouts have resided practically rent free since 1928.

Not too biased an opening to the newsstory is it?

I've been tracking this story (my son is a member of the Boy Scouts).

For the BSA to accept open homosexuals (especially in leadership positions) would mean the end of the organization.

The Boy Scouts of America is a private organization. My recommendation to them would be to purchase/build/maintain a meeting place of their own. This is too important an issue to compromise on.

'Pod.