From Stop the ACLU:
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ACLU vs Boy Scout Case Heads To Court Of Appeals
April 5, 2006 - Chicago, IL - PipeLineNews.org - In 2005, a federal district court in Chicago sided with the ACLU and ruled that the military’s support for the National Scout Jamboree - held once every four years at Fort A.P. Hill in Fredericksburg, Virginia - unconstitutional. The case is Winkler v. Rumsfeld, No. 05-3451 (7th Cir.).
The ACLU’s claim is that the Scout Oath’s “duty to God” makes the Boy Scouts a religious organization, like a church, and that military support for the Jamboree violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
If the ruling stands, the military may not lend equipment or provide logistical support to the Jamboree, as it does for many other civic organizations. The Department of Defense appealed this decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. Oral arguments are now scheduled for Thursday, April 6 at 9:30 a.m. CST.
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As is pointed out at Stop the ACLU, while the ACLU has a problem with the Boy Scouts saying ‘duty to God’, they don’t have a problem with a muslim youth camp being built on government leased property.
Stop the ACLU also provides a link for a petition to Stop Taxpayer Funding of the ACLU.
I don’t know, I thought religious freedom meant we were free to practice whatever religion we choose. I also thought that seperation of church and state had to do with not having a state sponsored religion. We are not a theocracy.
But the ACLU knows better than us all, I suppose. At least, they know how to get our tax dollars into their coffers.
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Don’t they just! This has to stop ~ the whole thing has become a greedy perversion of the original concept.
Shockingly, the ACLU is not as bad as the Oceanside Unified School District http://prosandcons.us/?p=2929. They are not against all displays of partiotism. suppose they prefer the government be neutral about itself, except for the authority of the Courts I suppose.
So is that first post a parody because that’s fucking insane. Its America love it or change it, we live in democracy for a reason, so the people (us) have access to change the government to fit the need of the people. If not for that reason why else have a democracy, lets just got back to a monarchy for crying out loud.
What has built this country today besides 150 years of slavery is its diversity, a melting pot of cultures and people which has combined amazing ideas from across the planet to make us into the technological capital for the world; we built the internet for crying out loud. A tool for interglobal communication within seconds, we should stand for nothing less than diversity and free exchange of ideas without limiting ourselves to what flags we are allowed and not allowed. Republicans used to be an intellectual party about freedom and problem solving but our values have been sold to the highest bidder to find focus groups which can land our political leaders into the pockets of the lowest common dominator. Let’s take this party back for the intelligent, and please read a fucking history book people.
p.s republicans are not a christian party asshole