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Philly owes $877,000 for Boy Scouts' eviction case
Associated Press ^
| 3/21/12
Posted on 03/21/2012 9:43:32 PM PDT by SmithL
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The city must pay nearly $900,000 after a failed effort to evict the Boy Scouts of America because of the group's ban on gays, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The post-trial ruling is just the latest twist in a decade-long legal dispute over the Boy Scout oath, which requires members to be "morally straight."
The two sides have sought a compromise that would let the local Boy Scouts chapter keep its rent-free, city-owned headquarters without violating the national Scout policy.
However, a tentative deal struck since the city lost a court case last year has fallen apart. U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter therefore said the city must pay $877,000 for the Scouts' legal fees.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; bsalist; homosexualagenda; pa; pennsylvania; philadelphia; scoutshonor
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:43:42 PM PDT
by
SmithL
Buckwalter, Ronald Lawrence
- Born 1936 in Lancaster, PA
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on November 17, 1989, to a seat vacated by Charles R. Weiner. Confirmed by the Senate on March 9, 1990, and received commission on March 12, 1990. Assumed senior status on December 11, 2003.
Education:
Franklin and Marshall College, A.B., 1958
College of William and Mary School of Law, B.C.L., 1962
Professional Career:
Private practice, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1963-1980
Legal aid attorney, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1964-1966
Clerk, Hon. John Bowman and Hon. Anthony Appel, Court of Common Pleas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1966-1970
Assistant district attorney, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1970-1978
District attorney, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1978-1980
Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1980-1990
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:44:28 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(If you reward certain behavior, don't be surprised when you see more of that behavior)
To: SmithL; SandRat
YAY!
Scouting Ping and a great one!
The Boy Scouts win!
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:45:10 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: SandRat
The 1st Amendment wins in Philadelphia!
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:45:48 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(If you reward certain behavior, don't be surprised when you see more of that behavior)
To: SmithL
ALL RIGHT!! Turn back the tide of the radical homos. Just think of all the good that the Scouts can do with almost a million bucks!
To: SmithL
If you lived in Philly, you’d know that no one wins.
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posted on
03/21/2012 9:53:53 PM PDT
by
EEGator
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: SZonian
Some gay guy on council if I am not mistaken was behind this...
The scouts raised the money and built the building and then gave it to the city ages ago, and used it for meetings.. some activist little BLEEP decided to hell with them.
Should be paying the scouts way more than this!
Dumb petty pathetic little people
To: SZonian
Some gay guy on council if I am not mistaken was behind this...
The scouts raised the money and built the building and then gave it to the city ages ago, and used it for meetings.. some activist little BLEEP decided to hell with them.
Should be paying the scouts way more than this!
Dumb petty pathetic little people
To: SmithL
Good. F abusive government on every level. It should come out of the govt workers’ pensions.
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:05:45 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: SZonian; RonF; AppauledAtAppeasementConservat; Looking for Diogenes; wisconsinconservative; ...
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:11:21 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: HamiltonJay
Wouldn’t surprise me if the council member wanted it for a sex dungeon.
And the money could’ve done the scouts some good but isn’t it going to their lawyer fees?
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:11:58 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
To: SmithL
Yep, left wing a**hats trying to suppress the 1st amendment rights of everyone except other left wing a**hats.
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:12:13 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: SmithL
Philly taxpayers on the hook for $900,000, plus legal expenses, for pimping the gay agenda.
And NO ONE will show up at the council meeting to complain about this complete wasting of taxpayer dollars by radical Democrats. Wouldn’t want to be known as a BIGOT after all, would we?
And you wonder what’s wrong in America, today?
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:16:40 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
To: SmithL
Huzzah! Three cheers for Judge Ronald Buckwalter!
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:21:41 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: SmithL
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:29:05 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(We will have to go through hell to get out of hell. Signed, a fanatic)
To: tcrlaf
I’m tellin ya, folks of moral conviction need to be migrating to likeminded states so a separation can occur, let the left rot in their dens of iniquity and falling apart cities.
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:42:06 PM PDT
by
dps.inspect
(the system is rigged...)
To: little jeremiah
shall bump during RUSH. :D
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:44:19 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Simple: Kill the terrorists, Protect (all) the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
To: SZonian
One in awhile I like lawyers.
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:45:49 PM PDT
by
enduserindy
(Conservative Dead Head)
To: Morgana
Where is that graphic from?
The sword is labeled bigotry and discrimination.
It seems the artist/author is trying to say that the boy scouts (and Christians) are using bigotry and discrimination as a weapon.
This piece of political propaganda is not meant to be flattering to the scouts or Christians.
Its saying that “Boy Scouts and Christians are discriminatory bigots”.
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posted on
03/21/2012 10:48:50 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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