The Boy Scouts Finally Get Their Comeupance

[Shane W]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303420,00.html

Awesome!!


The Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy is turning out to be a pricey proposition for its Philadelphia chapter — one that will cost about $200,000 a year, to be exact.
The city has ordered the organization to pay a fair-market rent of $200,000 — $199,999 more than its current $1 annual rate — to maintain its longtime offices in a landmark Philadelphia building because of its refusal to allow openly gay Scouts and Scout leaders.
City Solicitor says Romulo L. Diaz Jr. contends that Mayor John Street, City Council and the Fairmount Park Commission (which oversees historic properties) have been asking the Scouts for the past year to submit a clear-cut anti-discrimination policy, and they haven't done so. In order to comply with Philadelphia laws, he said, he has given the Scouts a choice: agree definitively in writing to stop discriminating, or pay a new rent at market value.
"They had been put on notice over the last year by the mayor, the City Council and the Fairmount Park Commission that they had a choice to make," Diaz said in a phone interview. "They need to provide evidence that they would not engage in discriminatory practices against gays as either Scout masters or Boy Scouts. .... They have either not responded or essentially played the victim."

[Bill Nolan]

Freedom is worth every penny!

[Ray G.]

This will clearly be thrown out by the Supreme Court.

That being said, I don't think the Boy Scouts should get public funds or support of any kind. Just on general principle. The government shouldn't be funding leisure.

[Amos Moses]

This will clearly be thrown out by the Supreme Court.

That being said, I don't think the Boy Scouts should get public funds or support of any kind. Just on general principle. The government shouldn't be funding leisure.

I disagree, It's a great institution for young boys to be involved in and should to supported the the nth degree.

[RickLM]

The only "penalty" is that they have to pay fair-market rent instead of getting the equivalent of free rent. I'm sure the Scouts will come up with the money.

[Shane W]

I disagree, It's a great institution for young boys to be involved in and should to supported the the nth degree.

It's a thinly disguised religious organization and deserves zero public funding.

[Brad N.]

This will clearly be thrown out by the Supreme Court.

That being said, I don't think the Boy Scouts should get public funds or support of any kind. Just on general principle. The government shouldn't be funding leisure.

what makes you say that? There is nothing here that would warrant a reversal. They have an openly anti-gay policy. The state allows them cheap rent. The state can easily say that because they violate anti discrimination laws or openly practice unequal treatment they can make them pay the full rent price instead of the discounted price.

[Brewtown Andy]

The only "penalty" is that they have to pay fair-market rent instead of getting the equivalent of free rent. I'm sure the Scouts will come up with the money.

You're kidding, right?

And 2) As an Eagle Scout, I echo Shane's sentiment.

[Joe Kalicki]

It's a known fact gays always weight their pine racers.

[Ray G.]

I disagree, It's a great institution for young boys to be involved in and should to supported the the nth degree.

It's a great institution for young boys to be involved in. That doesn't mean taxpayer money should go towards it.