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Posted on 10/26/2001 8:47:15 AM PDT by patent
26-Oct-2001 -- EWTN Pro-Family News BOYS SCOUTS WIN FLORIDA SETTLEMENT(cultureandfamily.org) - The Broward County, Florida, Board of Education has agreed to reimburse the Boy Scouts' South Florida Council $190,000 for legal fees incurred as a result of the Board's attempt to ban the Scouts from county schools. Last November, the county had tried to deny the Boy Scouts access to school facilities after hours. That move followed the Scouts' victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, where their policy barring homosexual scoutmasters was upheld. School Superintendent Frank Till claimed the Scouts' national policy invalidated the local Council's contract with the district on facility use, since that agreement forbids discrimination based on "sexual orientation." Until this conflict arose, the South Florida Boy Scout Council was allowed free access to public school facilities after hours. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued an injunction in March allowing the Scouts to stay in the schools. No final order was issued as the parties chose to seek a settlement. The settlement allows both sides to walk away from the controversy without admitting defeat, according to the Sun Sentinel newspaper. The South Florida Council will have its legal expenses paid, and the Broward County School Board has established a fee schedule for facility use. Non-profit groups like the Boy Scouts will pay $10 per meeting per organization at each school, with a cap of $100. About 50 Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs, about one-quarter of the Council's membership, meet in Broward schools. |
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Without admitting defeat?
The School Board got their clock cleaned.
And they wasted $180,000 of the money that should have gone to educate their students because of a misguided pro-homosexual crusade.
I guess the next item on their agenda is to provide mosques in every school.
The most disturbing thing to me is the "human rights" aspect. If you refuse to allow your children the "right" to freely associate with adult homosexuals, you are the one with mental problems.
Scouting has always been a threat to the marxist agenda. They got control of the Girl Scouts and guess what kind of diversity acceptance most of them are taught.
My son's Cub and now Boy Scout troop has always met at another Catholic Parish Hall for free and continues to do so!
School Superintendent Frank Till claimed the Scouts' national policy invalidated the local Council's contract with the district on facility use, since that agreement forbids discrimination based on "sexual orientation.
This idiot should be fired for negligent misuse of taxpayer dollars . . . $190,000 . . . wasted on his incompetentence.
Where is the voters' (taxpayers') outrage? Another fine example of the absurdity from the Sheeples' Republik of Broward County.
Lock and Load FReepers . . . Free Fire Zone Ahead
I'd suspect that they will if members are voted to the board as in my area are versus "appointed". I'm pretty darn happy as a Eagle Scout (5/71) to see these socialist's take it up the arse like the trash they try to promote through political correctness......
Stay Safe !
Oh how politically incorrect of me to use His name :o)
Dr. S
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