Pentagon Recruiting Could Suffer After Boy Scout Decision

CNSNewsService ^ | Nov 19 04 | Kathleen Rhodes

[churchillbuff]

"A settlement on the funding for the Jamboree, which was also addressed in the ACLU lawsuit, is still pending."

God, I hope the admninistration shows more courage on that front.

[Waco]

If the Pentegon don't believe in Mom, apple pie, baseball, the BSA, the Flag,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Reckon an E.O. can be used to correct this nonsense?

[CWOJackson]

Don't worry. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Joe Richards said Monday's partial settlement will have minimal impact on the military's relationship with the Boy Scouts.

"The settlement does not prohibit the Department of Defense from supporting the Boy Scouts of America. Boy Scout units are permitted to meet on military bases, and military personnel are allowed to remain active in Boy Scout programs," Col. Richards said.

"Under the very limited settlement applying existing DoD policy, DoD may not officially sponsor Boy Scout units and DoD personnel may not sponsor Boy Scout units in an official capacity," he said, referring to the Department of Defense. "We are still going to support the Boy Scouts of America."

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Spokespersons at Washington-area military bases said Boy Scout troops, often composed mostly of boys from military families, meet on their bases but that the troops are run by parents.

"We have a troop at Bolling, but they are not called the Bolling Boy Scouts. Parents are involved. They meet at Bolling," said Capt. Elizabeth Ortiz, spokesman for Bolling Air Force Base in the District, adding that Bolling does not sponsor the troop.

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The Boy Scouts Jamboree, which draws tens of thousands of Scouts and their leaders to Virginia's Fort A.P. Hill Army base every four years, will go on as planned this summer, despite a court settlement announced Monday that requires military bases and units to withhold official support from the Boy Scouts.

"There will be no effect on the Jamboree," said Bob Bork, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America. "We don't anticipate any problem with that."

[CWOJackson]

5

[CWOJackson]

For your reading pleasure...number five in two days.

[Larry Lucido]

And we STILL haven't impeached Bush?!

/sarcasm

[rdb3]

[hopespringseternal]

However, the Scouting oath violates "the religious liberty of youth who wish to participate but not ... swear a religious oath," and should not be funded by the federal government or "taxpayers' dollars," an ACLU press release from Monday stated.

The ACLU is an evil, anti-freedom organization. Supporting them or encouraging their jihad is despicable.

[ManHunter]

Dear LTC Richards: Ever heard of the "death of a thousand cuts" concept? They (the ACLU) know it well. With respect to the BSA and ACLU, we're well into the hundreds. Every time we make a deal with the ACLU, we suffer another self-inflicted wound and the bleeding increases just a little more.

[churchillbuff]

With respect to the BSA and ACLU, we're well into the hundreds. Every time we make a deal with the ACLU, we suffer another self-inflicted wound and the bleeding increases just a little more."""

Well and truly put. The ACLU is anti-America and anti-God. The Pentagon shouldn't be giving them any victories - at least not without a fight.

[churchillbuff]

The ACLU is an evil, anti-freedom organization. Supporting them or encouraging their jihad is despicable."""

My sentiments precisely.

[churchillbuff]

That's right. I "keep on going" -- in opposition to the ACLU and in defense of the Boy Scouts!

[Dante3]

Surely no one believes the ACLU is going to stop at this issue if Bush and Rumsfeld cave (or perhaps agree with their position)? As a letter to the editor in today's The Washington Times states: "If the ACLU is successful in such a silly issue as sponsoring Boy Scout troops, it is a big step closer to success with a much more significant target -- declaring the military's chaplain corps unconstitutional."

[CWOJackson]

Too bad shill...you're not doing very well with your mission.

[churchillbuff]

Too bad"""

Yes it's disturbing that there are a lot of people who, like you, don't care that much about the depradations of the ACLU. Our freedoms are at stake, but a lot of people don't give a d-mn.

[churchillbuff]

Surely no one believes the ACLU is going to stop at this"""

They've only just begun. They hate America. They hate Christianity. They hate God. The Pentagon shouldn't have given them an inch - without a knock-down fight.

[CWOJackson]

LOL! Your problem churchSHILL is that far too many people are familiar with YOU and know you don't care about the Boy Scouts at all, just you're perpetual agenda.

So why have you stopped posting your lies about the draft? You did if for a whole year. Don't you care about our kids being drafted for the President illegal war any longer?

[churchillbuff]

No, there simply isn't the outrage, because this is coming from the Bush Administration. The American Legion president also asked, "where's the outrage," Joe Farah asked the same thing. As Farah pointed out, when wrong-headed policies come out of a Republican adminsitration, a lot Republicans will keep quiet instead of protest - - even though they'd be loud in protesting the very same policies if it was a Democrat who was doing it. I suspect you might be protesting this kowtow to the ACLU, if Kerry's administration were doing it. I know I would.

[CWOJackson]

"No, there simply isn't the outrage, because this is coming from the Bush Administration."

Close, there simply isn't the outrage because it's coming from "you". People caught on to you with your unending threads against the war and your year long campaign insisting the President was secretly bringing the draft back.

You didn't care about the kids then, you still don't.