Philly owes $877,000 for Boy Scouts' eviction case

Associated Press ^ | 3/21/12

[SmithL]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The city must pay nearly $900,000 after a failed effort to evict the Boy Scouts of America because of the group's ban on gays, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

The post-trial ruling is just the latest twist in a decade-long legal dispute over the Boy Scout oath, which requires members to be "morally straight."

The two sides have sought a compromise that would let the local Boy Scouts chapter keep its rent-free, city-owned headquarters without violating the national Scout policy.

However, a tentative deal struck since the city lost a court case last year has fallen apart. U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter therefore said the city must pay $877,000 for the Scouts' legal fees.

[Morgana]

I noticed that after I posted it. Was just something I pulled off of photobucket.

[boop]

All well and good, but aren't the Scouts still "forbidden" from having meetings in that building constructed in 1921?

A deals a deal. In 1921 who could have envisioned that Boy Scouts could be considered a bigoted, "hate group"?

[crazyhorse691]

Good news for the BSA. On a side note, I, as a BSA chartered org. rep, answered a BSA poll on whether I would recommend other organizations become charter orgs. and I said NO! And it was because of the PC crud that would give the charter org. a media outlet to corrupt the purpose of the BSA and turn a troop into a recruiting tool for atheists, perverts and people with allegiance to secular humanism.

[crazyhorse691]

Another side note here...looks like my family is going to be leaving Portland,OR in a couple of months to become caretakers on a 4th generation family homestead in the coast range...eat your hearts outs. Actually, when it happens I will invite any Freeper who wants to see it to come for a night or so.

[Lancey Howard]

Great news. Screw Philthadelphia.

The Democrats running the place tried to intimidate and browbeat and extort the Boy Scouts into signing up homos to take little boys off into the woods, and the Boy Scouts, figuring this was not a good idea, told the Philthadelphia Democrats to go play in the street. And now Philthadelphia must pay, big.

It’s always nice to see a sunbeam of sanity in today’s America.

So bend over, taxpaying Philthadelphia voters, and pay up - - you are getting exactly what you deserve.

[dadfly]

wonderful news. and the scouts gave the building to the city. i guess no scout’s good deed goes unpunished by liberals.

[Stanwood_Dave]

The local Cradle of (illegal discrimination) Liberty Council has tried to walk a fine line between appeasing the city, the United Way and other supporters and the Irving, Texas-based Boy Scouts of America.

In 2003, it enacted its own nondiscrimination policy but was forced to repeal it when the Boy Scouts of America ordered it to conform to national rules. The chapter later enacted a statement that says it doesn't tolerate illegal discrimination.

But it does tolerate illegal discrimination against the Boy Scouts of America 1st Admendment to the tune of $800,000.00. Ouch!

[Conservative4Ever]

I noticed it too, but I interpreted it to mean a weapon to 'slay' bigotry and discrimation. I could be wrong.

[Fresh Wind]

Somehow, I don’t think I’d handle a sword exactly that way.

[Neidermeyer]

A deals a deal. In 1921 who could have envisioned that Boy Scouts could be considered a bigoted, “hate group”?
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In 1921 the KKK was mainstream...

[FroggyTheGremlim]

A scout is:

• Trustworthy,
• Loyal,
• Helpful,
• Friendly,
• Courteous,
• Kind,
• Obedient,
• Cheerful,
• Thrifty,
• Brave,
• Clean,
• and Reverent.

And apparently financially-astute!

[Roccus]

[bert]

The money goes to lawyers

[Chode]

W00T!!!

[hal ogen]

Bwahahahahahahaha! Asshat homo loser city.

[Scoutmaster]

We had the National Meeting in Philadelphia in 2003 (note the year). It was a circus, with all of the protestors and news media outside, and the hosting Council, Cradle of Liberty, in the midst of enacting its own policy not to discriminate against gays - a policy in violation of the BSA policy, and which Cradle of Liberty was forced to repeal.

Those were the minuses.

On the other hand, at the Southern Region Banquet, I sat back-to-back with a Scoutmaster from Tennessee who had just completed 75 years as Scoutmaster with the same Troop. My table included the curator of the Norman Rockwell works at the BSA National Museum, and the Eagle Scout about to go to the South Pole as part of the bi-annual London Geographic Society program that always takes an Eagle Scout. One of the speakers was the Eagle Scout helicopter pilot shot down in Iraq and kept as a POW, whose badly beaten face had been on the cover of TIME or Newsweek. One of the Scouts awarded a heroism medal had been on a houseboat that exploded, and despite shattered legs and a broken arm, swam to shore and back several times, dragging unconscious people from the burning wreck (fuel had leaked on the water).

Scouting will survive. It's not a program; it's a movement. A world-wide movement.

[Lady Lucky]

I’m tellin ya, folks of moral conviction need to be migrating to likeminded states so a separation can occur, let the left rot in their dens of iniquity and falling apart cities.

That is indeed the least bloody option, but if we can't whip up a respectable third party, I don't think we can find it in ourselves to secede.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I had the same question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Leyendecker

TinEye pointed it out.
http://www.tineye.com/search/ff8818e9388ff318a5e471bcc4b41c9d8b3ef03c/?pluginver=chrome-1.1

[Tribune7]

ping

[AppyPappy]

They don’t HAVE to pay it. Who is going to complain if they don’t? The media?