City Hikes Boy Scouts' Rent by $199,999 over Gay Ban (Philadelphia)

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 10/18/2007 | Joseph A. Slobodzian

[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....

[Pyro7480]

Philadelphia is San Francisco on the East Coast.

[Pyro7480]

Culture ping!

[Always Right]

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

[sickoflibs]

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.

[trumandogz]

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.

[x_plus_one]

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

[trumandogz]

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.

[dragonblustar]

The Boy Scouts of America's refusal to bend

[freekitty]

We need to go in and you know slap Philadelphia.

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

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?

[Jigajog]

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.

[freekitty]

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

[trumandogz]

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

Exactly. Why are the Boy Scouts on Welfare?

[restornu]

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

[freekitty]

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.

[elpadre]

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.

[nfldgirl]

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?

[HockeyPop]

Tell Robert Nix what you think.

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

[zerosix]

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

[edcoil]

The government would like the boy scouts to end up like the Catholic church.