[Stone Mountain]

The city was not paying the Scouts' docking fees. They were waiving the fees in exchange for rocks.

The city was clearly subsidizing the Scouts unless you think you can get dock fees for rocks anywhere else...

And what do you mean by saying the BSA "went out of their way to proclaim themselves a private group"? They are a private group. Always have been a private group. I don't think they had to go out of their way to proclaim the obvious. Sounds like you have an agenda.

Didn't mean anything by the "out of their way"comment other than that when the athiest/gay lawsuits came up, that the Scouts at the point eschewed the idea that they are a public organization and declared themselves private. Many people prior to that time (including myself) thought that the scouts were a public organization - wrongly, but it wasn't something I had given a lot of thought to, even when I was a scout. The athiest/gay suits were predicated on the idea that the Boy Scouts were a public organization. All I meant by that was that they emphasized that they were private. If you think I have an agenda, please state what you think it is instead of making implications...

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

The "out of their way" phrase seems agenda-laden to me...specifically, an anti-BSA agenda. I don't think kindly of low lives who attack innocent patriotic boys.

I'm trying to think why anyone would assume BSA to be a public organization.