Victory For The BSA
Posted on July 26, 2005
Last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist introduced an Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill. Well, it came to a vote tonight. And we have some excellent news via FoxNews.com.
Senate Approves Boy Scout Events on Military Bases
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Tuesday to allow U.S. military bases to continue to host Boy Scouts events, responding to lawsuits and a federal court ruling aimed at severing relationships between the government and the youth group.The vote came one day after four adult Scout leaders from an Alaska troop were killed on the opening day of the National Scout Jamboree at the Army’s Fort A.P. Hill in Bowling Green, Va., when a tent pole apparently struck a power line.In a 98-0 vote, the Senate approved the provision continuing the hosting of Boy Scout events as part of massive bill setting Defense Department policy for next year. After the vote, Senate leaders decided to put off further debate and votes on the overall bill, probably until fall when Congress returns from a monthlong break.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a former Boy Scout who sponsored the Senate provision, said it is necessary to push back on a spate of lawsuits to limit Boy Scout activities on government property. The provision adopted Tuesday says Boy Scouts should be treated the same as other national youth organizations.Frist said it “removes any doubt that federal agencies may welcome Scouts to hold meetings, go camping on federal property or hold scouting events and public forums” on government property.
In 1999, the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit claiming the Pentagon’s sponsorship of such Boy Scout activities violates the First Amendment. The ACLU argues that direct government sponsorship of the group amounts to discrimination.
Civil liberties advocates have assailed the Boy Scouts organization because it bans openly gay leaders and compels members to swear an oath of duty to God.
On June 22, U.S. District Judge Blanche Manning ruled in the ACLU’s favor, saying the Pentagon can’t spend millions of dollars to sponsor Boy Scout events. She said in an earlier ruling that the government spent between $6 million and $8 million to host the Jamboree on a military base in 1997 and 2001.
The House in November overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding resolution that recognized the Boy Scouts organization for its public service efforts and condemned legal efforts to limit government ties to the organization that has 3.2 million members. source
Victory is sweet. But I’m sure all of you will join me in expressing our deepest sympathies to the families of the Scout Masters that were killed in Monday’s electrical accident at the Boy Scout Jamboree. And pray for the speedy recovery of the injured. No better tribute could be paid to these men who gave their lives to bring a safe, moral, and constructive outlet for the youth of our nation, than this being approved.
I congratulate all 98 Senators who voted on their wisdom and common sense in appoving such a neccessary activity. Both for our youth and our Armed Forces.
The Democratic Underground compare the Boyscouts to the Hitler Youth Army.
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Great news Gribbit and good post. Yes, it is a tribute to those poor Scout leaders who died this week. They came all the way from Alaska to help their kids do better in the world.
It’s about time the know-nothing losers at the ACLU understood that FREEDOM WORKS BOTH WAYS!
Those bigots at the ACLU sit in judgement of everyone else, singlehandedly deciding who should have rights and who shouldn’t. It’s about time the Senate slapped them up side the face and told them to shut their festering pie hole!
I love it when the good guys win one!
YES! This is great news indeed.
Yes! Spending countless millions of dollars on “jamborees” is EXACTLY what we need to be doing right now!
Instead of properly armoring the vehicles driven by soldiers or impeaching our president for blatantly lying to his country multiple times, we’ll have boys earning their molestation badges in the safety of our own military bases!
I’m off to renew my NAMBLA membership now!
Jake, I’m so sorry for you. Your parents held you underwater as a child, didn’t they?
I suppose the countless $$$ we spend on the NEA and PBS and the ACLU are well spent Jake? If you want to provide better armor perhaps the cuts should start there.
Ivan,
It was most likely lead chips.
Way to go boys!
You make our troops proud!
(and dead)
Did this freak just say he was renewing his NAMBLA membership? What a sick twisted &*&*()%&%^&$%!
GREAT NEWS!
I’ve blogged rolled ya too! Great site. The good people have won (for a change)!
Another non-linking troll. Not even worth a comment. I say that we start dumping all comments without valid email and homepage links. What do you all say?
Boy scouts is just a legalized venue for molestation. You people who defend them are just upset you can’t be in them anymore and get what you want too.
Shouldn’t our military bases be in use to fight terrorists, why do we have to let a bunch of pansies celebrate in them??
Jake…
Yes! Spending countless millions of dollars on “jamborees” is EXACTLY what we need to be doing right now!
They tell you that the government spent between 6 and 8 million on the scouts but you never hear that the scouts spent 40 million improving the bases.
There are at least 130,000 internet sites such as this and at least half of them are for morons…what are you doing over here?
It’s about time we see a tangable decision made in this country that is not in keeping with the ACLU’s communistic goals.
Thanks for posting!
HA! This is great! I can feel the love…and the HATE! Part of me would like you to keep the moonbats out, but when they show their true colors, it’s worth recording. Maybe you could start a “moonbat gallery.” where you post all of them, with links back to the original post they came from. Sort of like an “endangered species” gallery. Just a thought.
Excellent news! My heart, and prayers goe out to the youth leaders whose lives were tragically lost.
You would think the ACLU would take a 90-0 Senate vote as a little “message” at the very least. Then again, I fully expect them to raise hell over Alabama’s recent decision by it’s House to snip the nuts off of, and the ovaries (for females) out of pedophile sex offenders. The Bill passed the Alabama State House by a 96-0, bi-partisan vote:
http://www.guntotingliberal.com/2005/07/snip-snip-bi-partisan-alabama-state.html
When you have a huge room full of people from all walks of life and differing ideologies, and they are ALL able to agree upon a certain subject… and you are the only one in the room who DOESN’T agree… let’s just say, “Houston, we have a freaking PROBLEM”!
The ACLU does many good things. But WAYYYYY too often, they are marching to the beat of their own drummer. Sad. Because we could USE a civil liberties organization who cared about EVERY Amendment in our Constitution right now… BADLY.
Blog ON, y’all….
The ACLU has started to lose cases lately and now the nation is starting to turn around these perverts will loose a lot more and any idiot who runs down the boy scouts can lick where I can’t.
I ‘m with Christopher K. Leavitt on this one. Leave the comments up and highlight them or give them their own place on site.
Let reasonable, intelligent people come here to see the sick, twisted mindset of those we oppose and defend against.
No one can demonstrate the perverted ideologies they hold, better than they can.
I wonder what the excuse will be for the two senators who DIDN’T vote on the issue: Senators Craig (R-ID) and Rockefeller (D-WV)?
Yeah, there’s a (censor)load of seething and hatred here from the other side that’s for sure!
***Censorship provided by your friendly neighborhood Gribbit
Super site!