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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....
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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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To: trumandogz
that’s fine as long as the next tenet and infact all the city’s tenants pay the same amount....$200,000.
401
posted on
10/19/2007 8:24:01 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: kabar
See
364 for info from JUNE 2003 for National.
402
posted on
10/20/2007 6:10:34 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Gondring
Thanks. This is not about charging rent, it is about government trying to punish a private organization for not adhering to the gay agenda. This fight has been going on for years in Philadelphia.
403
posted on
10/20/2007 6:17:14 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: edcoil
The government would like the boy scouts to end up like the Catholic church. I would suggest you think before posting such an idiotic comment next time...
404
posted on
10/20/2007 8:36:16 AM PDT
by
DBeers
(†)
To: DBeers
You waited all that time for a name calling post. You’re wonderful.
405
posted on
10/20/2007 9:46:55 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: Pyro7480
406
posted on
10/21/2007 11:22:02 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
To: Gay State Conservative
Now the city can move in the Gay,Lesbian,Transgendered & I Dont Know What Alliance into the same building for $1 a year. . . . whereupon it will henceforth become the Three Tap Public Rest Room.
407
posted on
10/22/2007 11:39:08 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(Vote for the person at the primaries; vote for the party at the election.)
To: SandRat
408
posted on
10/24/2007 9:23:37 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Pro Deo et Patria)
To: trumandogz
Can you PLEASE add the $60,000 in maintenance to the $1 rent? So, $60,001/yr ISN’T FREE rent! Also, a contract is a contract!!
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