FREEPER ACTIVISM: ACLU Christian-haters extort $940K on claims Boy Scouts are a "religion"

2/17/06

[Liz]

THE LATEST ON ACLU CHRISTIAN-HATING TACTICS
Boy Scouts 'a religion' WorldNetDaily.com
February 16, 2006 | Rees Lloyd

Arguments in a major Boy Scouts case unfolding in Pasadena, Calif., before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – a case that is certain to be headed for the Supreme Court -- centered on the contention that the revered organization is actually a religion and should therefore not be given a lease of public land.

A federal judge in San Diego granted the summary judgment to the agnostics, finding that the Boy Scouts are a "religion" because of the Boy Scout Oath, which includes doing one's duty to "God and my country," and the Boy Scout Law, which includes "reverence" as one of 12 precepts. Also, the Scouts require a belief in God as a condition of membership. The city itself is not part of the appeal. It settled with the American Civil Liberties Union to avoid further expense, agreeing to terminate the lease and to give the ACLU $940,000 in attorney fees....

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com

[massgopguy]

Pardon me but didn't this same court rule that Rastas could smoke pot on public land that they leased?

[devolve]

[digger48]

I hope that little faggot is getting wind of some of the pics we be showin on here.

[YOUGOTIT]

The ACLU is a political party and should not be getting tax-free money nor should they be getting taxpayer money from the courts. Butt then the courts are part of the problem in that they have become radical left wing fascist so they give the ACLU anything they want. We should sue to have the ACLU declared as a political party and then they could get tax-free donations.

[Galveston Grl]

When states and cities are run by Democrats, they often are targeted with threats from the ACLU and they gladly settle out of court on the advise of the left wing lawyer employed by the government enity. It is a legal way to use tax payer money to enrich their legal activist cause.

[manwiththehands]

"Our main thrust should be a permanent takedown of the ACLU, to get them out of our treasury, out of our lives, and out of our religious beliefs."

It's not going to happen. I'm sorry, but if our Christian President and Republican leaders are "tolerant" of Islam, they are certainly not going to do much against the ACLU.

[rcocean]

Great post.

I'll write my congressman on this mater.

Of course, 90% of FReepers wont. Its too much trouble.

Their activism is limited to bitching about the ACLU on FR.

[talleyman]

"The ACLU is the spawn of Satan."

[darkangel82]

ping

[BW2221]

I find it interesting that the ACLU, whose national and state leadership primarily consists of secular Jews, is so anti-Christian and pro-Muslim. Don't they realize they will be the first ones to lose their heads if the Muzzies take over?

[darkangel82]

They're too dense to think of that.

[Liz]

Thanks for writing.

There's a very significant cadre of FReepers who are on this issue.

I'm sure other FReepers will write, just to get on the ACLU's case.

[Liz]

He looks so cute in that dress. LOL.

[Liz]

The ACLU is a political party and should not be getting tax-free money nor should they be getting taxpayer money from the courts. ...... We should sue to have the ACLU declared a political party and then they could get tax-free donations.........

Polticial party? How so? Under what criteria?

[Liz]

Freeper activism needed.

ACLU pockets $940,000---extortion for claiming Boy Scouts are a "religion."

[TheForceOfOne]

You mean no government funding, all donations through private fund raising right?

If so, I agree

They don't deserve any tax payer money period, they're anti-American.

[IronJack]

Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if anything short of violence will stop the ACLU. They are literally using our own rope to hang us. How is it that courts are more accountable to these assclowns than to We the People? This is OUR country, not the ACLU's.

[Edgerunner]

Does this mean that anyone who takes an oath that contains the G word is a religion?