Posted on 11/09/2005 7:57:42 AM PST by Jay777
Ninety members of Congress filed a brief yesterday with a federal appeals court declaring support for the U.S. Defense Department in its sponsorship of the Boy Scouts of America's national jamboree.
The department's backing of the quadrennial event, attended this year by more than 40,000 Scouts, was opposed in a 1999 lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU contends federal government sponsorship violates the First Amendment, because the Boy Scouts require members to swear an oath to "do my duty to God and my country."
The next jamboree is scheduled for 2010 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.
Represented by the American Center for Law and Justice, the lawmakers' friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit seeks a reversal of a lower court decision that declared the Defense Department's sponsorship unconstitutional.
The 1972 statute passed by Congress, the lower court declared, violates the so-called "separation of church and state."
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the ACLJ, says the lower court simply "got it wrong."
"The military provides the Boy Scouts with support and services that aid both the military and the Scouts without endorsing religion," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Look for several Democrats to be among these "friends" of the Scouts. An attempted head fake to look reasonable. I know Bill Nelson of Florida, in an ATTEMPT to look "moderate" or "conservative" is pretending like he cares about the Boy Scouts.
Serious or not, it's about time Congress took
a stand on this ACLU outfit. We probably
wouldn't even HAVE a Democracy in this land
if the ACLU had been active during the time of
its founding; too many peoples' "rights" were
being trodden on.
We DON'T "have a democracy in this land".
America is a REPUBLIC...not a democracy--the Founding Fathers were strongly opposed to democracy, & therefore they established America as a REPUBLIC, & required that all states have a republican form of government as well.
Another option would be to LIMIT THE JURISDICTION OF THE FEDERAL COURTS, as well as ELIMINATE all federal courts except for the Supreme Court. The Constitution gives Congress the power to do this, & I think doing that would be an even better way to solve the problem.
"ACLU was not entirely to blame. The liberal Courts sided with them."
Many of the liberal Courts we have today, are the product of the ACLU.
They started out small and worked their way up to SCOTUS.
Yo Lib...TECHNICALLY, you're right, of course...but we
no longer stand by the Social Studies Teacher's exam with the matching identifications. Check with any dictionary today, and the common responses include a real mishmash
of interchangeable terms, with sometimes only SLIGHT
differentiations which become negligible in blogging and
newscasts:
6 entries found for DEMOCRACY
Main Entry: democracy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: representation
Synonyms: capitalism, commonwealth, egalitarianism, emancipation, equalitarianism, equality, free enterprise, freedom, justice, laissez faire, liberal government, private ownership, representative government, REPUBLIC, suffrage
Main Entry: capitalism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: system
Synonyms: commercialism, competition, DEMOCRACY, free enterprise, free market, industrialism, laissez faire, mercantilism, private enterprise
Main Entry: commonwealth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: country
Synonyms: body politic, citizenry, citizens, commonality, DEMOCRACY, federation, nation, people, polity, REPUBLIC, society
Main Entry: freedom
Part of Speech: noun 2
Definition: independence
Synonyms: abolition, abolitionism, autarchy, autonomy, citizenship, deliverance, delivery, DEMOCRACY, discharge, disengagement, disimprisonment, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption, extrication, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, representative government, rescue, salvage, salvation, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty
Main Entry: nation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: country
Synonyms: body politic, colony, commonwealth, community, DEMOCRACY, domain, dominion, empire, kingdom, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, principality, public, race, realm, REPUBLIC, society, sovereignty, state, tribe
THEN, there are the definitions/synonyms for REPUBLIC:
4 entries found for Republic.
Main Entry: commonwealth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: country
Synonyms: body politic, citizenry, citizens, commonality, DEMOCRACY, federation, nation, people, polity, REPUBLIC, society
Main Entry: democracy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: representation
Synonyms: capitalism, commonwealth, egalitarianism, emancipation, equalitarianism, equality, free enterprise, freedom, justice, laissez faire, liberal government, private ownership, representative government, REPUBLIC, suffrage
Main Entry: nation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: country
Synonyms: body politic, colony, commonwealth, community, DEMOCRACY, domain, dominion, empire, kingdom, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, principality, public, race, realm, REPUBLIC, society, sovereignty, state, tribe
Main Entry: state
Part of Speech: noun 3
Definition: government
Synonyms: big brother, body politic, commonwealth, community, country, federation, kingdom, land, nation, REPUBLIC, sovereignty, territory, union
my source:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=democracy
But, hey!...good for you for keeping us on our toes!
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