Scouts Are Victims of the Culture War
They couldn’t win in the courts, so the Left is attacking the Boy Scouts any other way they can. Sometimes the Scouts win, but sometimes, as in this case, the Left gets cities and organizations to back out of agreements.
Prompted by opposition to the Boy Scouts’ rule disqualifying homosexuals as troop leaders, Philadelphia has forced the city’s local chapter to pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters.
As WND reported in June, Philadelphia’s city council voted to renege on a 1928 ordinance allowing the Cradle of Liberty Council to have its headquarters in a building on a parcel of public land “in perpetuity” for $1 a year.
The city argues it can’t rent public property for a nominal sum to any group that discriminates.
City officials in San Francisco and Boston have made similar decisions displacing the Scouts because of the group’s behavior code.
Fairmount Park Commission president Robert N.C. Nix announced this week the Cradle of Liberty Council must pay the $200,000 rent if it wants to remain in the building after May 31.
This is not to say that cities and organizations can’t decide to do whatever they want with their property; they certainly can. But what it does show are the lengths to which the Left will go to destroy something they have a disagreement with. Not content to battle ideas (because they’d lose that battle with the public), they put pressure on the economic side of things, in hopes that they can ruin them financially.
The whole “live and let live” pathos that homosexuals allegedly just want to live by is shown to be the lie that it is; the “let live” part is apparently only supposed to apply to others, not themselves.
This also highlights the differences in conservative and liberal ways of dealing with problems. Instead of letting ideas compete, liberals wish to use the government’s heavy hand to quash anything that they disagree with. The Scouts are simply one of the more higher profile groups they have their sights on.
There is no right to belong to a private organization. There are other organizations that will take homosexual leaders. No one is being denied anything. Free association is still legal, at least for the moment. Therefore, this campaign should be opposed by anyone who still believes in a free country.
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Filed under: Conservative • Culture • Homosexuality • Liberal
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Since the City of Philadelphia obviously DISCRIMINATES against groups that discriminate (what group does NOT!?), does that mean that the City of Philadelphia will begin paying more for services and rentals, in order to better match “fair market” values???
For goodness sakes, the Boy Scouts! They are portrayed as the villains!? I suspect, if the subject were to be properly researched, it would be found that one Boy Scout troop with zero homosexual leaders (assuming they would want to be led homosexually) performs more acts of public service and social charity than one homosexual group without a Boy Scout leader.
Me, I discriminate all the time, with everyone. I do not treat police officers like I do panhandling winos; I do not treat my teachers like students; I do not treat my parents like my children nor my children like my parents; I discriminate between sellers and buyers, between plaintiffs and defendants, and God help you if you don’t discriminate between national politicians and your kid’s soccer coach!; and I definitely discriminate between people who practice sexual perversions and those who follow a way of chastity, purity, and sexual fidelity.
(I hear you, Gay Activitst, and:
No, you do not and can not!)