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  • Philadelphia Sets Deadline for Boy Scouts to Renounce Anti-Gay Policy

    11/23/2007 2:51:44 PM PST · by wagglebee · 93 replies · 183+ views
    Christian Post ^ | 11/23/07 | Lawrence Jones
    The city of Philadelphia is threatening to end a nearly 80-year building agreement with the nation’s third Boy Scouts chapter if the group doesn’t change its policy to accommodate gay employees. All members of the local Scouts chapter, which operates as the Cradle of Liberty Council, must take the Scout Oath and Law in which they promise to do their duty to God and to be morally straight, as well as to be clean in their thoughts, words and deeds. While the organization does not inquire about sexual orientation at the time of membership, the group bars an avowed homosexual...
  • Fitzpatrick steps in for Boy Scouts

    07/31/2006 4:26:14 PM PDT · by fgoodwin · 2 replies · 260+ views
    Bucks County Courier Times ^ | July 31, 2006 4:34 AM | Brian Scheid
    Fitzpatrick steps in for Boy Scoutshttp://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-07312006-691181.html http://tinyurl.com/pvk5s By BRIAN SCHEID Bucks County Courier Times Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick, R-8, wants the city of Philadelphia to end its dispute with the Boy Scouts of America. Fitzpatrick has sent a letter to Philadelphia Mayor John Street, blasting the city's pending decision to oust the Boy Scouts from their Philadelphia headquarters for refusing to change their policy prohibiting gay members. Fitzpatrick, an Eagle Scout and former president of the Bucks County Council of the Boy Scouts of America, also gave a brief speech on the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday in support...