Posted on 11/17/2004 11:21:19 PM PST by kattracks
THE new big threat to our civil liberties is a group of 10-year-olds with walking sticks.At least, that's the message from the American Civil Liberties Union, which just chalked up its latest knockdown of the Boy Scouts: Via a lawsuit in Illinois, the once-proud civil-liberties group has strong-armed the Department of Defense into a worldwide ban on "sponsorship" by military bases of the charity's work.
The ACLU demanded the ban because Boy Scouts take a generic oath of faith in God. The decision still lets military personnel be involved with the Scouts on their own time, but it sends a loud message to Scout leadership that sounds something like "Pblllttt."
But then, blowing raspberries at the Boy Scouts is a top priority for the modern ACLU. In 2000, it fought all the way to the Supreme Court in a failed effort to force the organization to accept openly gay scoutmasters. "The ACLU is like a rabid dog when it comes to the Boy Scouts," says Boy Scouts national spokesman Robert Bork. If this keeps up, he adds, "pretty soon they'll come after the Marines for Semper Fidelis."
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The Founding Fathers wanted to keep Americans free from religious persecution, but the ACLU has turned that impulse into an excuse to carry out its own persecutions in the name of anti-religion, regardless of the cost to schools, kids and the Boy Scouts.
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Far from inculcating one religion, the Boy Scouts offer merit badges for learning about a rainbow coalition of religions from Mormons and Muslims to Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrians.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Funny, I was just going to post the same editorial. Thanks for beating me to it.
Now I'm curious about how the aclu feels about alcoholics anonymous. Isn't one of their steps belief in a a higher power?
It wouldn't be possible for me to have a lower opinion of the ACLU! If I had one of thier offices around here I'd probably get myself in trouble! :(
In a way, yes, it is.
In keeping with that point, have you noticed the constant attacks by the Left on the efficacy of AA? After all, AA commits the crimes of faith, personal responsibility, personal culpability, and the power of the individual to solve his own problems.
Can't have that, can we? Excluding the role of Big Government is shameful.
This is not the first time that the organized Left has found the Boy Scouts offensive. The delegates booed a BSA honor guard at the 2000 Democratic Convention:
" Eagle Scouts have earned the highest rank in scouting. When a group of them took the stage at the Democratic National Convention, delegates booed."
( http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/18/81224 )
About the only "boys" group the Left supports is the child molestation organization NAMBLA:
"...Hormel Library, which contains pornographic pictures and stories, as well as material linked to the North-American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). [Source: Family Research Councils LEGISLATIVE HOTLINE, Friday, March 13, 1998]"
( http://www.e-z.net/wtv/__bw-fed_98Hormel_Ambassadorship_Feb.htm )
Incidentally, NAMBLA has met in the very libraries where the Boy Scouts are outlawed:
An organization dedicated to helping its members meet children and then
molest them without getting caught holds its regular monthly meetings in
a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. We're talking about children
as young as three years old.
( http://www.qrd.org/qrd/orgs/NAMBLA/nambla-KRON.transcript )
All together now: Thank you ACLU for defending our rights (against the Boy Scouts of America).
As one Freeper put it,
Just which part of "WE DON'T WANT TO SEND OUR SONS INTO THE WOODS AT NIGHT WITH HOMOSEXUALS" don't you understand??
My son belongs to the Young Marines. This group also includes God in their pledge and is sponsored by the Marines. They meet at the local Marine base. My son is worried that his group might be next. By the way, my older son is fighting in Iraq right now so that our kids can have the freedome to join what ever group they desire.....
Me too. Nice job.
I would add only the following quote:
Reasonable people might wonder where the discrimination really lies. The more pressing concern for civil-rights advocates in a wealthy democracy should be for the children who aren't getting the education, support and moral training they need. But that doesn't seem to have the same frisson for the ACLU, or for congressional Democrats who've clambered onto the bandwagon against the Scouts.... Who's most at risk here? The same minority communities that have supported parochial school choice. For many underprivileged families, the Boy Scouts offers a fun and wholesome way to make friends and have experiences outside their usual neighborhoods. That's a wonderful thing for parents working two jobs and trying to do right by their kids.
Homosexual leaders in the Boy Scouts would destroy the organization. This is the intent.
Is that scary or what? If Dubya gets bad advice (like his Dad got from his chief of staff Sununu) and "pulls another Souter" when replacing Rehnquist, the Boy Scouts will cease to exist.
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