Not to turn this into a political forum, just thought others on this list would be interested in this article and links...the articles are dated last week.
Fox News - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303420,00.html
Investors Business Daily - http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=277686879588338
Editorial comment excerpt...........
.......If America is about anything, it's
about the right to hold beliefs and views with which others disagree,
the right to express and act on those views, and the right to freely
associate with others holding similar views. That's not bigotry; it's
true diversity.
So a venerable, well-regarded youth group that has done nothing
worse than instill formerly uncontroversial values into the millions of
young men it has prepared for responsible adulthood is being
successfully demonized.
A survey a few years back found that 63% of U.S. Air Force Academy
graduates, 68% of West Point graduates, 70% of Annapolis graduates and
85% of FBI agents, not to mention 26 of the first 29 astronauts, were
all Scouts.
It's no surprise that such leaders would come from an organization
whose oath reads: "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God
and my country and to obey the Scout Law: To help other people at all
times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally
straight."
Frightening stuff, indeed.......
Hope some of you are interested..
24 October 2007
Patriot Vol. 07 No. 43
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The Boy Scouts face another fight in Philadelphia
THE FOUNDATION: EDUCATION
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds
of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate
their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt
of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition
to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.” —John
Adams
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
“The Boy Scouts’
Philadelphia branch, called the Cradle of Liberty Council, had been
renting the Beaux Arts building, which stands on city-owned land, for
$1 a year. The city has now ordered the Scouts to pay a ‘fair market’
rent of $200,000 on the grounds that the group refuses to admit openly
gay Scouts and Scout leaders...[T]he Boy Scouts, who require a belief
in God and therefore also ‘discriminate’ against atheists, are not
comfortable with the idea of openly homosexual men leading young boys
into the woods. In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision
(with justices Rehnquist, O’Connor, Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas in the
majority), upheld the group’s right to bar scoutmasters who are openly
gay based on the principle of freedom of association... But the state,
or in this case the city of Philadelphia, apparently doesn’t have to
give the Scouts a break on their rent. Isn’t it hypocritical, though,
to be intolerant in the name of tolerance, to say that it’s wrong to
disapprove of the lifestyles of others but OK to condemn the religious
and moral beliefs of others?... If America is about anything, it’s
about the right to hold beliefs and views with which others disagree,
the right to express and act on those views, and the right to freely
associate with others holding similar views. That’s not bigotry; it’s
true diversity. So a venerable, well-regarded youth group that has
done nothing worse than instill formerly uncontroversial values into
the millions of young men it has prepared for responsible adulthood is
being successfully demonized.” —Investor’s Business Daily
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