Tag Archives: Boy Scouts

Supreme Court: The Boy Scouts Are A Religious Organization

The Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a lower court’s ruling that the Boy Scouts of America are a religious organization. The earlier ruling came over a dispute about the Scouts renting city-owned land in San Diego. U.S. District Judge Napoleon Jones Jr. ruled in 2003 that San Diego acted improperly when it leased 18 acres of …

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Boy Scouts Anniversary Resolution Roils California Legislature

A resolution honoring the Boy Scouts for their 100th anniversary has California legislators at each others’ throats. Because of the gays. Democrats ultimately killed the resolution after criticizing the Boy Scouts for excluding homosexuals. Predictably, Republicans became indignant and accused Democrats of defaming a cherished American institution. It didn’t end there. Democrats had introduced a resolution of their own honoring …

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$1.4M Jury Award For Boy Scout Sexually Abused By Mormon Troop Leader

A Portland, Oregon jury has awarded $1.4M to a man sexually abused by the scoutmaster of his Mormon Church sponsored Boy Scout troop. The scoutmaster had confessed to church and Boy Scout leaders that he molested at least 17 scouts, yet he was allowed to remain in contact with the boys. The LDS does not have to pay their portion …

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Mormon Church And Boy Scouts Sued In Massive Molestation Cover Up

The LDS Church and national Boy Scouts organization have been sued by a man claiming that both covered up evidence of his molestation. The case has uncovered extensive files kept by both groups cloaking sexual predators. The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout …

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LAPD To Cut Ties To Boy Scout Group

The Los Angeles Police Department wants to end its relationship with the group that runs its youth Explorer program because its Boy Scouts parent organization denies access to gays. The organization, Learning for Life, was spun off from Boy Scouts of America. A department official told the Police Commission Tuesday that the Boy Scouts policy is “inconsistent” with the city’s …

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On Melissa Etheridge And The Boy Scouts

JMG reader Andy in Fort Lauderdale writes: Last night at the democratic national convention, Melissa Etheridge sang a medley which included Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”. All royalties from performances of “God Bless America” are assigned to the Boys and Girls Scouts of America. The Boy Scouts are an avowedly anti-gay discriminatory organization. Etheridge could have easily chosen “America the …

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Deadline Looms For Philly Scouts

Philadelphia has given the Boy Scouts until December 3rd to rescind its policy of excluding gays or forfeit the right to continue renting its headquarters from the city for $1 a year, as the Scouts have done since 1928. Market rent on the massive Beaux Arts building, which was constructed by the Scouts themselves, is thought to be about $200,000 …

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Philly Lowers Boom,
Raises Rent For Boy Scouts

City leaders in Philadelphia have told the local Boy Scout chapter that they must now pay market rent for their headquarters because they refuse to allow gay Scouts. The previous rent, negotiated in 1928 when the Scouts built the building on city land, was $1 annually. The new rent: $200,000 a year. Philly’s Cradle Of Liberty Boy Scout Council adopted …

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