Boy Scouts Statement on House passage of the Public Expression of Religion Act

BSALegal.org ^ | 10-2-2006 | rb2

[RB2]

House passes Public Expression of Religion Act The House of Representatives yesterday passed the Public Expression of Religion Act of 2006 (PERA, HR 2679) by a vote of 244 to 173. Here is the text of the Act as passed.

Here is the statement issued today by the Boy Scouts of America:

Boy Scouts of America appreciates Congress’ interest in the litigation facing Boy Scouts and the solution Congress is pursuing in the “Veterans’ Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2006.” For the past decade, Boy Scouts as well as federal, state, and local governments that support Boy Scouts, have been the targets of ACLU lawsuits challenging Boy Scouts’ relationships with government entities. Those lawsuits seek to use the Establishment Clause to sever government relationships with Scouting merely because Boy Scouts pledge a nonsectarian promise to do their “duty to God.” Boy Scouts of America hopes that the Veterans’ Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2006 will help eliminate this frivolous litigation against Scouting and government entities.

[kjo]

The ACLU must be made up of horrible people.

[big'ol_freeper]

The scary part is that there are 173 elected representatives that would vote against this.

[BW2221]

Passage will be tougher in the Senate.

[Always Right]

Thank you John Hostettler for sponcering this bill. Now someone in the Senate get it passed. This is long overdue. These ACLU suits have cost local governments and charities millions of dollars, and put that money in the pocket of ACLU lawyers.

[Always Right]

Passage will be tougher in the Senate.

Yep, too many Rino's. I think if we can get some Rinos like McCain to support it, it will have a chance.

[minor49er]

My younger brother is out right now raising money for his Boy Scout troop.

[muawiyah]

They're the same guys who joined with C.R.E.W. to keep secret the salicious IMs Foley sent to kids.

They'd rather young children suffer than that their party pass up a chance to badmouth the Republican party.

Their attack on Boy Scouting is of a piece with their attitude toward adults having sex with kids ~

[MWS]

The ACLU must be made up of horrible people.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[ChessExpert]

It would be interesting to see who voted Yea and Nay.

[ChessExpert]

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 244, nays 173, not voting 15, as follows:
[Roll No. 480]
YEAS--244
   Aderholt
   Akin
   Alexander
   Bachus
   Baker
   Barrett (SC)
   Barrow
   Bartlett (MD)
   Barton (TX)
   Bass
   Beauprez
   Berry
   Bilbray
   Bilirakis
   Bishop (UT)
   Blackburn
   Blunt
   Boehner
   Bonilla
   Bonner
   Bono
   Boozman
   Boren
   Boustany
   Boyd
   Bradley (NH)
   Brady (TX)
   Brown (SC)
   Brown-Waite, Ginny
   Burgess
   Burton (IN)
   Buyer
   Calvert
   Camp (MI)
   Campbell (CA)
   Cannon
   Cantor
   Capito
   Cardoza
   Carter
   Chabot
   Chocola
   Coble
   Cole (OK)
   Conaway
   Costa
   Cramer
   Crenshaw
   Cubin
   Cuellar
   Culberson
   Davis (KY)
   Davis (TN)
   Davis, Jo Ann
   Davis, Tom
   Deal (GA)
   Dent
   Diaz-Balart, L.
   Diaz-Balart, M.
   Doolittle
   Drake
   Dreier
   Duncan
   Ehlers
   Emerson
   English (PA)
   Everett
   Feeney
   Ferguson
   Fitzpatrick (PA)
   Flake
   Foley
   Forbes
   Fortenberry
   Fossella
   Foxx
   Franks (AZ)
   Frelinghuysen
   Gallegly
   Garrett (NJ)
   Gerlach
   Gibbons
   Gillmor
   Gingrey
   Gohmert
   Goode
   Goodlatte
   Gordon
   Granger
   Graves
   Gutknecht
   Hall
   Harris
   Hart
   Hastings (WA)
   Hayes
   Hayworth
   Hefley
   Hensarling
   Herger
   Herseth
   Hinojosa
   Hobson
   Hoekstra
   Hostettler
   Hulshof
   Hunter
   Hyde
   Inglis (SC)
   Issa
   Jenkins
   Jindal
   Johnson (CT)
   Johnson (IL)
   Johnson, Sam
   Jones (NC)
   Keller
   Kelly
   Kennedy (MN)
   King (IA)
   King (NY)
   Kingston
   Kline
   Knollenberg
   Kolbe
   Kuhl (NY)
   LaHood
   Latham
   LaTourette
   Leach
   Lewis (CA)
   Lewis (KY)
   Linder
   Lipinski
   LoBiondo
   Lucas
   Lungren, Daniel E.
   Mack
   Manzullo
   Marchant
   Marshall
   Matheson
   McCaul (TX)
   McCotter
   McCrery
   McHenry
   McHugh
   McIntyre
   McKeon
   McMorris Rodgers
   Melancon
   Mica
   Miller (FL)
   Miller, Gary
   Moran (KS)
   Murphy
   Musgrave
   Myrick
   Neugebauer
   Northup
   Norwood
   Nunes
   Ortiz
   Osborne
   Otter
   Oxley
   Paul
   Pearce
   Pence
   Peterson (MN)
   Peterson (PA)
   Petri
   Pickering
   Pitts
   Platts
   Poe
   Porter
   Price (GA)
   Pryce (OH)
   Putnam
   Radanovich
   Rahall
   Ramstad
   Regula
   Rehberg
   Reichert
   Renzi
   Reynolds
   Rogers (AL)
   Rogers (KY)
   Rogers (MI)
   Rohrabacher
   Ros-Lehtinen
   Ross
   Royce
   Ryan (WI)
   Ryun (KS)
   Salazar
   Saxton
   Schmidt
   Schwarz (MI)
   Scott (GA)
   Sensenbrenner
   Sessions
   Shadegg
   Shaw
   Sherwood
   Shimkus
   Shuster
   Simmons
   Simpson
   Skelton
   Smith (NJ)
   Smith (TX)
   Sodrel
   Souder
   Spratt
   Stearns
   Sullivan
   Sweeney
   Tancredo
   Taylor (MS)
   Taylor (NC)
   Terry
   Thomas
   Thornberry
   Tiahrt
   Tiberi
   Turner
   Upton
   Walden (OR)
   Walsh
   Wamp
   Weldon (FL)
   Weldon (PA)
   Weller
   Westmoreland
   Whitfield
   Wicker
   Wilson (NM)
   Wilson (SC)
   Wolf
   Young (AK)
   Young (FL)
NAYS--173
   Abercrombie
   Ackerman
   Allen
   Andrews
   Baca
   Baird
   Baldwin
   Bean
   Becerra
   Berkley
   Berman
   Biggert
   Bishop (GA)
   Bishop (NY)
   Blumenauer
   Boehlert
   Boswell
   Boucher
   Brady (PA)
   Brown, Corrine
   Butterfield
   Capps
   Capuano
   Cardin
   Carnahan
   Carson
   Case
   Chandler
   Clay
   Cleaver
   Clyburn
   Conyers
   Cooper
   Costello
   Crowley
   Cummings
   Davis (AL)
   Davis (CA)
   Davis (IL)
   DeFazio
   DeGette
   Delahunt
   DeLauro
   Dicks
   Dingell
   Doggett
   Doyle
   Edwards
   Emanuel
   Engel
   Eshoo
   Etheridge
   Farr
   Fattah
   Filner
   Frank (MA)
   Gilchrest
   Gonzalez
   Green, Al
   Green, Gene
   Grijalva
   Gutierrez
   Harman
   Hastings (FL)
   Higgins
   Hinchey
   Holden
   Holt
   Honda
   Hooley
   Hoyer
   Inslee
   Israel
   Jackson (IL)
   Jackson-Lee (TX)
   Johnson, E. B.
   Jones (OH)
   Kanjorski
   Kaptur
   Kennedy (RI)
   Kildee
   Kilpatrick (MI)
   Kind
   Kirk
   Kucinich
   Langevin
   Lantos
   Larsen (WA)
   Larson (CT)
   Lee
   Levin
   Lofgren, Zoe
   Lowey
   Lynch
   Maloney
   Markey
   Matsui
   McCarthy
   McCollum (MN)
   McDermott
   McGovern
   McKinney
   McNulty
   Meek (FL)
   Meeks (NY)
   Michaud
   Miller (MI)
   Miller (NC)
   Miller, George
   Mollohan
   Moore (KS)
   Moore (WI)
   Moran (VA)
   Murtha
   Nadler
   Napolitano
   Neal (MA)
   Oberstar
   Obey
   Olver
   Owens
   Pallone
   Pascrell
   Pastor
   Payne
   Pelosi
   Pomeroy
   Price (NC)
   Rangel
   Reyes
   Rothman
   Roybal-Allard
   Ruppersberger
   Rush
   Ryan (OH)
   Sabo
   Sánchez, Linda T.
   Sanchez, Loretta
   Sanders
   Schakowsky
   Schiff
   Schwartz (PA)
   Scott (VA)
   Serrano
   Shays
   Sherman
   Slaughter
   Smith (WA)
   Snyder
   Solis
   Stark
   Stupak
   Tanner
   Tauscher
   Thompson (CA)
   Thompson (MS)
   Tierney
   Towns
   Udall (CO)
   Udall (NM)
   Van Hollen
   Velázquez
   Visclosky
   Wasserman Schultz
   Waters
   Watson
   Watt
   Waxman
   Weiner
   Wexler
   Woolsey
   Wu
   Wynn
NOT VOTING--15
   Brown (OH)
   Castle
   Davis (FL)
   Evans
   Ford
   Green (WI)
   Istook
   Jefferson
   Lewis (GA)
   Meehan
   Millender-McDonald
   Ney
   Nussle
   Pombo
   Strickland

[ViLaLuz]

Big Bump!

[sportutegrl]

I see Murtha voted against it.

[maine-iac7]

These ACLU suits have cost local governments and charities millions of dollars, and put that money in the pocket of ACLU lawyers.

And what has happened to the bill to cut off tax payers $ from the ACLU - It was up for a vote in Sept - then a total media blackout???

We need to get on this and DEMAND it be passed. It would be one giant step toward reestablishing our freedoms = particularly of speech and religion - and disrupt the socialist agenda of the Socialists in faux-democrat suits

[Redbob]

"The ACLU must be made up of horrible people."

D'ya think?

BTW, you see plenty of NRA stickers, Marine Corps stickers, Episcopal Church stickers on cars; has anyone ever seen a sticker admitting to membership in the ACLU?

Well, outside of Austin, that is?

[Not a 60s Hippy]

“What is happening to my country” started over forty years ago. The changes to be made were charted out and documented in the: Communist Goals (1963). The many groups of Socialist front groups have achieved most of the items listed in the “Communists Goals”.

 

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

[theymakemesick]

A quick scan of the list reveals my rep, worthless POC liberal poverty pimp Al Green, along with Gene Green and "don't get between a TV camera and Sheila Jackson Lee", all from Texas, voted against the measure. What a shock.

thanks for posting the results.

[JCEccles]

LOL! Even Utah's sole Democrat in Congress, Jim Matheson, voted to deny the ACLU leech a permamant reservation at the all-you-can-suck buffet on the national juglar.

It must be an election year.

Then again, I'm sure he's confident that Senate Democrats and their RINO "gang of fourteen" allies will do whatever is necessary to keep the ACLU fully engorged on the public dime.

[JCEccles]

LOL! Even Utah's sole Democrat in Congress, Jim Matheson, voted to deny the ACLU leech a permanent reservation at the all-you-can-suck buffet on the national jugular.

It must be an election year.

Then again, I'm sure he's confident that Senate Democrats and their RINO "gang of fourteen" allies will do whatever is necessary to keep the ACLU fully engorged on the public dime.

[ChessExpert]

I wanted a breakdown by party. I have been unable to find it. I went to Thomas.loc.gov and found Congressmen and their party affiliation. I had to print this up. I started to go through the list and made it to number 70, before stopping. In the first 70 yeas. I count 8 Democrats. I can't seem to find anyone on the net who tracks Congressional and Senate votes real time.