Attempt to ban Boy Scout recruiting in schools rejected

CNN ^ | 12/12/2002 | Associated Press

[RonF]

SALEM, Oregon (AP) -- A state appeals court on Wednesday rejected an atheist mother's effort to prevent the Boy Scouts from recruiting in schools because the organization requires a belief in God.

The three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals, upholding a lower-court ruling, said allowing the Boy Scouts of America to make brief in-school presentations with no religious content doesn't violate the state constitution's ban on government involvement with religion.

[Fish out of Water]

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[yendu bwam]

Actually, the mother's whole premise is wrong. There's nothing unconstitutional about the government's promoting religious belief in general, as long as the government(actually Congress) doesn't try to establish a national religion. That's why President Bush's faith-based program ideas are just fine constitutionally. We've sunk to a low low when we think we have to shun organizations like the Boy Scouts who promote religious belief in general.

[Paul Atreides]

The case stems from a 1998 lawsuit brought by Nancy Powell after scout recruiters visited her son's Portland elementary school.

Up yours, Nancy!

[FormerLib]

Score one against the Talibatheists and their "Dog in the Manger" mentality.

[Area51]

Note to Nancy: Bite me, Loser!

[Rummyfan]

Yay! Score one for the BSA!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

To the athiest mother,you not only are a "mother"but are in the minority and therefore DON'T COUNT!

[FormerLib]

Of course, the Boy Scouts are now a target of the homosexual activists so there's a lot of money, coming from this "oppressed" minority, behind such attacks.

[LiteKeeper]

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[yendu bwam]

But other schools HAVE stop such recruiting, and those decision have passed muster as well. The Federal Equal Access act regards use of facilities, not access to schoolchildren. Right?

How about leaving it up to the parents of the kids in the school to determine whether they want the Boy Scouts recruiting in the school?

[Sonny M]

This woman would probably get her son a gay mentor who molests him rather then he join the boy scouts and find god.

[Eaker]

if we're talking about public schools, I am a taxpayer, therefor I get a say.

You certainly do not deserve one. The parents deserve the only say that should matter. You see, we truly have our children's best interest at heart.

Stay safe; stay armed.

[yendu bwam]

But now to asnwer YOUR question... if we're talking about public schools, I am a taxpayer, therefor I get a say.

Sure you do. You vote for your Board of Ed members just like anyone else. But if the townspeople vote for board members who represent their collective wish to have the Boy Scouts recruit in school, what's wrong with that?

[SuziQ]

Did this woman have nothing better to do than get her knickers in a twist because the Boy Scouts showed up at her son's school? She needs to get a life!

[yendu bwam]

Of course, the Boy Scouts are now a target of the homosexual activists so there's a lot of money, coming from this "oppressed" minority, behind such attacks.

If one starts at the top of this page... and searches out [CNTRL-F] the very first use of "homo"... one will be directed to YOUR post. Funny, that.

No actually, it's not. A lot a good people have been completely smeared by homosexual activists as haters and bigots, for simply believing it's not prudent to have homosexual men take their teenage sons out camping overnight in their absence. Never has a good organization like Boy Scouts been so vilified and attacked by such intolerant people.