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City Hikes Boy Scouts' Rent by $199,999 over Gay Ban (Philadelphia)
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 10/18/2007 | Joseph A. Slobodzian

Posted on 10/18/2007 9:41:25 AM PDT by Pyro7480

The Boy Scouts of America's refusal to bend its rules to permit gay scouts will cost the organization's local chapter $200,000 a year if it wishes to keep its headquarters in a city-owned building on Logan Square.

Representatives of the Boy Scouts of America's Cradle of Liberty Council were notified that to remain in their 79-year-old landmark headquarters, they needed to pay the city a "fair market" rent, Fairmount Park Commission president Robert N.C. Nix said yesterday. Currently, the rent is $1 a year....

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: ban; boyscouts; bsa; childmolesters; discrimination; gaystapotactics; homofascism; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; jerks; lawsuit; moralabsolutes; philadelphia; politicalcorrectness; scouting; scouts; stalinism
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Philadelphia is San Francisco on the East Coast.
1 posted on 10/18/2007 9:41:33 AM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: wagglebee; Coleus; cpforlife.org

Culture ping!


2 posted on 10/18/2007 9:42:31 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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To: Pyro7480

The assault on decent people continues. What sick bastards the leftist are.


3 posted on 10/18/2007 9:44:19 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Pyro7480

I only give money to the Boy Scouts. I guess liberals think the tolerant union run public school system will help the poor city kids enough.


4 posted on 10/18/2007 9:45:08 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Are libs really as dumb as they act??(maybe they just assume we are that dumb))
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To: Pyro7480
The current rent in One Dollar per year!

I am not sure the Scouts need to be 200k a year but One Dollar is ridiculous. The Scouts do not need to be receiving Welfare from the city. Raise the rent.

5 posted on 10/18/2007 9:46:40 AM PDT by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: Always Right

Unclean spirits abound and delight in the persecution and torment of honest souls.


6 posted on 10/18/2007 9:46:44 AM PDT by x_plus_one (A nation ashamed of its past will fear its future.)
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To: Pyro7480
The current rent in One Dollar per year!

I am not sure the Scouts need to be 200k a year but One Dollar is ridiculous. The Scouts do not need to be receiving Welfare from the city. Raise the rent.

7 posted on 10/18/2007 9:46:55 AM PDT by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: Pyro7480
The Boy Scouts of America's refusal to bend
8 posted on 10/18/2007 9:47:19 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Pyro7480

We need to go in and you know slap Philadelphia.


9 posted on 10/18/2007 9:47:45 AM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Pyro7480
I may not agree, but as a private organization, the Boy Scouts should be able to admit whomever they wish.

OTOH, as a private organization, what makes them entitled to free government office space?

10 posted on 10/18/2007 9:47:57 AM PDT by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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To: sickoflibs

One more reason to not like Philly. They have choke football team, led by a choke QB, and they don’t like the Boy Scouts. Hey Philly, choke on it.


11 posted on 10/18/2007 9:48:34 AM PDT by Jigajog
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To: Always Right

They do it to wear us down; so we will be like little piles of dough they can turn into slaves.


12 posted on 10/18/2007 9:48:38 AM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions
OTOH, as a private organization, what makes them entitled to free government office space?

Exactly. Why are the Boy Scouts on Welfare?

13 posted on 10/18/2007 9:49:35 AM PDT by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: Pyro7480

The Boy Scouts of America's Cradle of Liberty
Council has leased its site at 22d & Winter Streets
for $1 a year since 1928.

14 posted on 10/18/2007 9:49:52 AM PDT by restornu (No one is perfect but you can always strive to do the right thing! PRESS FOWARD MITT!)
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To: trumandogz

That isn’t the point. The $1 a year rent was meant to honor this organization and what it stands for. That is, when things were decent and moral.


15 posted on 10/18/2007 9:50:33 AM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Pyro7480
How do they handle other nonprofit groups? Are they being discriminatory toward Scouts? Philly citizens need to get hot over this.

a barrage of opinion pieces, emails, and other means of letting the left know what we think are in order.

16 posted on 10/18/2007 9:50:39 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Pyro7480
The Boy Scouts of America's refusal to bend its rules to permit gay scouts...

Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the Boy Scouts policy to not allow "gay" scout leaders vs. gay scout members?

17 posted on 10/18/2007 9:50:53 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Pyro7480

Tell Robert Nix what you think.

http://www.hallwatch.org/profiles/brt/rcnixiii/faxbank/writeletter


18 posted on 10/18/2007 9:52:22 AM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: Pyro7480

My guess is that now the “city of brotherly love” means “If I can’t molest your sons, then you need to get out!”


19 posted on 10/18/2007 9:52:26 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Mean Maryjean
The government would like the boy scouts to end up like the Catholic church.
20 posted on 10/18/2007 9:52:44 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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