This is pure injustice...

Clinton appointee U.S. District Judge Napoleon Jones has ordered the city to kick the Scouts out of the 18-acre Camp Balboa saying they gave them preferential treatment, which is not allowed as he considers them a religious organization.

Now, please consider that the Scouts have used the park since 1920 and their current site since 1940. In 1957, the land was donated to the city for the very purpose of being used by the Boy Scouts with the assumption that they would only have to pay a $1 a year lease. In 2001 when the original "lease" expired it was raised to $2500. Since than, the ACLU has argued and the judge has ruled that "the city handpicked as the preferred lessee an organization that describes religious belief and practice as fundamental to the services it provides" and since "belief in God is and always has been central to BSA's principles and purposes," they should be denied the land that was but into the care of the city FOR THEM!!!

You want to piss me off? This will do it. You want to complain that it's unfair and to break the promise then give the land back (give, don't sell) than start charging them property tax. The fact that they've invested a ton of money into park improvements over the years is not even considered important to the plaintiffs. They say if the Boy Scouts start admitting homosexuals they will no longer be considered a religious organization and that the "handpicked" problem will just go away.

Give...me...a...fucking...break. Why don't you just say you are holding them hostage and be done with it?

Now the city of Philadelphia is looking into whether the Boy Scouts should continue to use city-owned property for THEIR headquarters even though the Philadelphia Cradle of Liberty Boy Scout counsil is located on a half acre of public land was granted TO the Boy Scout in 1928 �in perpetuity.� Again, with the city as holders.

Now, I have NO PROBLEM with groups like the United Way and the Pew Charitable Trusts suspended funding to the Philadelphia Boy Scout council because of their ban against homosexuals as that's their right. But it isn't the right of the city to take this kind of action by breaking faith to advance an agenda.

And all this negativity is having an negative effect on the homosexual agenda too. A Gallup poll released shortly after the Supreme Court ruling showed people are now about evenly divided about issues dear to the community. In May of this year, 60% of those polled said that homosexual relations should be legal with only 35% saying it should not. Now it's 48% for and 46% against. That's pretty significant.

Please, I understand the desire to be treated equally, I really do. But can we do this without making others out to be bad guys? Stealing what these kids have had for so long because someone has a point to make. For God sakes they're KIDS. You can have a taxpayer supported gay high school but you can't have a Boy Scout Camp?

Please!

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