Posted on 07/26/2005 1:12:52 PM PDT by RWR8189
Excellent news, thanks!
Hopefully W's Supreme Court picks will change the legal environment for the better--the Supremes will no longer rubber stamp any case the ACLU brings before it.
A lib co-worker of mine told me today that while the Scouts do a lot of great things, he is in total disagreement with them not allowing homosexuals into Scouting; he also doesn't like the fact that Federal tax dollars go to Scouting (I'm assuming he is referring to the use of federal land), since they disallow homosexuals. Of course, as soon as I mentioned that there were MANY organizations that I felt should not benefit from my Federal tax dollars, he told me I was trying to cloud the issue. Why is it that libs can only debate as far as when they are winning, yet when a conservative proves them wrong, they get bent out of shape?
Awesome.
And I don't use that word lightly.
98-0.
Even liberal Democrats won't touch the BSA.
Popcorn anyone?
Anyone know who the two senators not voting were?
Im going to guess, Mosley Braun and Kennedy.
Ping!
Ping
By ACLU logic, isn't the charitable deduction for churches/synagogues/mosques a violation of the 1st?
I thought Mosely-Braun was voted out of office years ago.
Ex-Senator Moseley-Braun's seat is currently occupied by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), and has been since 2000, I think.
I wonder it this Lib even knows the BSA position on homosexuals. For one, it never mentions homosexuality in its applications for membership or leadership. It says if you have anything in your past that would make you a bad role model for young men you should voluntarily withdraw your application. I suspect even most Libs would agree that homosexuality is not a good role model, or that other bad role models would also make for bad leadership. Wife beating and criminals come to mind.
Thus leaders should be good role models. Now as to the youth, clearly the scouts would not benefit from young active and openly homosexual scouts in their midst. But what about the young man who is not certain about his sexuality and keeps it to himself? Well guess what, Scouting does not ask him to leave, in fact scouting does not ask young men anything about their sexuality. (They do expect a belief in a Supreme Being, but are willing to bend this belief until it almost breaks to let in a kid. Scouts do not need to belong to a recognized religion, and the Supreme Being can be the G-d of nature or earth, or all of life as long as spirituality is involved.)
I end with a story about a troop in the South SF Bay Area who stated firmly that they were against the Scouts policy on not allowing openly homosexual scoutleaders. The Scouts did not move agains them for this position. Waiting to see if they would follow up their position with action. An openly homosexual man from San Francisco (about an hours drive north) applied for a job with this troop. Well, the troop committee got together and decided that they had no openings for new Assistant Scoutmasters at this time. LOL. Common sense prevailed again. (BTW, it is in this troop committed where the leadership credentials of prospective leaders is evaluated. I participated in one that denied a recently turned adult scout a position of leadership on the grounds that he had not demonstrated sufficient maturity to this point. He was asked to resubmit his application at some time in the future.
Ask your Lib friend where common sense enters his political philosophy?
Will the ACLU receive federal funds to challenge the constitutionality of this bill?
The ACLU operates on federal funds in all these attacks on the Scouts and Christianity.
Who were the 2 socialist that didn't vote?
Liberals worked hard, and have fairly earned the right to be bent out of shape.
They've earned it by being wrong on EVERY major issue, both domestic and foreign, for more than 50 years.
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