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California Poised to Strip Boy Scouts of Tax-Exempt Status
http://www.charismanews.com ^ | 10:30AM EDT 4/9/2013 | Ann Carroll

Posted on 04/09/2013 12:55:22 PM PDT by Maelstorm

Controversy has surrounded the Boy Scouts of America this year, as same-sex activists have pressured the organization to abandon its long-held values and allow homosexual members. Now, they are trying to remove the Boy Scouts' tax-exempt status.

Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter to members of the California Legislature Friday to explain the significant legal and policy problems of a proposed bill designed to punish nonprofit youth organizations like the Boy Scouts of America. The bill would strip organizations like the Boy Scouts of their tax-exempt status if they won’t abandon their long-held values and allow themselves to be strong-armed into admitting people into membership who don’t hold to those values.

Thirty-nine California attorneys who are part of the more than 2,200 allied attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom worldwide also signed the letter.

“Youth organizations that have benefitted America for generations should be free from harassment by politicians who don’t agree with the very values that have made these groups successful,” said Senior Counsel David Cortman. “The Constitution protects the freedom of youth organizations like the Boy Scouts to promote the values that have defined them as an organization and to ensure that their leaders and members adhere to those values.”

Under the bill, SB 323, California would strip tax-exempt status from any “organization organized and operated exclusively as a public charity youth organization that discriminates on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliations.” Some of the public charity youth organizations at risk include Little League, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, Special Olympics, American Youth Soccer Organization, Future Business Leaders of America, and many religious organizations that serve youth.

The Alliance Defending Freedom letter explains that if the bill is passed, many non-profit youth organizations will be forced “to choose between following their core values and beliefs and losing their tax exemptions or abandoning their beliefs to comply with the law.”

“Freedom of association would prove an empty guarantee if associations could not limit control over their decisions to those who share the interests and persuasions that underlie the association’s being,” the letter states.

“The First Amendment protects the freedom of youth organizations to associate with members and leaders who share their values,” added Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco. “Our youth deserve to continue to benefit from these groups, and bills like SB 323 severely threaten their ability to do so.”


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To: Maelstorm

Sure, attack an organization that teaches wonderful values to young boys and teaches them hard work, service to others and dedication. The state of Moronfornia isn’t about any of those things. So kill off the Boy Scouts in California so we get more juvenille deliquency and street gangs, all because the sacred protected class of deviants gets their feelings hurt if someone doesn’t accept their perverted lifestyles. “Accept me! Accept me!” << The credo of the Stalinist gay movement.


21 posted on 04/09/2013 1:09:56 PM PDT by MissesBush (The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)
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To: MissesBush

Yep but its “accept me so I can destroy you from the inside” because the sexual progressive homosexuals don’t really want to be boy scouts or to be a part of the church they want to undermine and make those organizations irrelevant, meaningless, and powerless. They want to define Christianity and normalcy as bigotry.


22 posted on 04/09/2013 1:12:34 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: Maelstorm
Scout leadership is voluntary and not a paid position, so I cannot see how Government
can impose any regulations on a non-profit for choosing who they want in the club.
But then, we're talking about a state full of IDIOTS who vote these asshats into office.
23 posted on 04/09/2013 1:12:36 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: Maelstorm

“I’d agree but that is surrendering and of course it is behaving like Boy Scouts have something to be ashamed of when they do not.”

I understand your view. But being right in California is like being a virgin in prison. It’s a good feeling while it lasts.


24 posted on 04/09/2013 1:13:46 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Maelstorm

“free exercise”
“freedom of association”
“establishment of a state religion”

This is the same state where they want mandatory fertility insurance coverate if two man having intercorse with each other does not produce a pregnancy. (but they have to try for one year. How will that be proven?)


25 posted on 04/09/2013 1:14:07 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Maelstorm

This provision would be an unconstitution infringment on freedom of association and would violate the equal protection clause by discriminating on the basis of religion. It would be a blatently unconstitutional law and California knows this yet they are trying to bully the scouts with the high costs of litigating the issue to victory.


26 posted on 04/09/2013 1:15:20 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Maelstorm
The homosexual crowd have depended on freedom of association to assert their privilege of consenting sex with whoever in private.

Now they don't like the freedom of association?

Time to act ~ prohibit homosexual association in other states ~ punish it with a special tax.

Two can play at this game.

27 posted on 04/09/2013 1:15:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Maelstorm

Good points.


28 posted on 04/09/2013 1:16:18 PM PDT by MissesBush (The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)
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To: fwdude

Mexifornians just vote as they’re told.


29 posted on 04/09/2013 1:17:31 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Maelstorm

Homosexuals ALWAYS end up over-reaching, which is why they AWAYS end up getting prohibited and punished. They have no sense of self control, nor do they respect the rights of others.


30 posted on 04/09/2013 1:17:44 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Maelstorm

The fags really, REALLY want to have unimpeded access to young boys. Good God, they make me sick...


31 posted on 04/09/2013 1:18:08 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: Maelstorm

This is exactly why I am against “Gay Marriage”.


32 posted on 04/09/2013 1:30:21 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Maelstorm

Wow. Haven’t they ever heard of the Freedom of Association?

What a mad house California has become and all for the support of what we were once convinced was “private behavior between consenting adults”.


33 posted on 04/09/2013 1:30:52 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Maelstorm

Next it will be churches, and preachers will be thrown into jail.


34 posted on 04/09/2013 1:31:43 PM PDT by bestintxas (Anyone who votes for Obama after these 4 miserable years needs to take a mandatory citizenship test.)
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To: 1010RD

Really, all the want(ed) is(was) “tolerance”.


35 posted on 04/09/2013 1:32:18 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: USNBandit

Of course.

If this flies, I expect that the Catholic church will have its tax exempt status threatened next unless they endorse gay marriage.

And I fear some bishops might in order to preserve their property.


36 posted on 04/09/2013 1:32:28 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Maelstorm

Legislation forcing the rest of society to accept the behavioral choices of others is not freedom, but tyrannical insolence.


37 posted on 04/09/2013 1:32:49 PM PDT by CanadianYankee (Obamacare, Taxation through misrepresentation)
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To: MrB

And the Left is just a tool of ____________ ?


38 posted on 04/09/2013 1:33:44 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Maelstorm
Under the bill, SB 323, California would strip tax-exempt status from any “organization organized and operated exclusively as a public charity youth organization that discriminates on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliations.”

Under this law, could they get rid of CAIR? Or any other mosque that preaches hate? Do they dare?

39 posted on 04/09/2013 1:34:18 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 1010RD

“liberalism” is the political expression
of the religion of humanism
which began with the lie in Genesis 3,
“you will be as gods, knowing good and evil”.

It will end only when its author is plucked up
by an unnamed angel and flung into the Pit forever.


40 posted on 04/09/2013 1:35:37 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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