ACLU vs. Boy Scouts of America
By Steve Boggess (11/12/05)
I can remember when I was a Boy Scout, a member of Troop 38 in Charleston, West Virginia.
I can also remember the fun us ten to thirteen year old kids used to have at the annual Scout Jamborees in the early 1970’s. This, of course, was long before the era of political correctness was ushered in.
The last part of the Scout Law is a word that in these times has little meaning unfortunately.
That word is Reverent. The Scout Law says “A scout is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties. He respects the belief of others.” It is this part of being a scout that has the ACLU all in an uproar recently.
This tax payer funded leftist organization seeks to undo the tradition of the Boy Scouts from within. Not enough tax payers are coming to the defense of this privately funded organization that teaches boys to be reverent toward God, and respectful of other religious beliefs, among the other qualities the Boy Scouts teach.
In 2000, a lesbian and agnostic couple joined with the ACLU to file a lawsuit against the city of San Diego, these people felt that they were being excluded by the BSA’s religious policies in particular. Of course, the ACLU is also seeking to rid this nation of our national motto, and ban the wording of “In God we trust” from our currency.
On it’s website under the heading of “Religious Liberty,” the ACLU, in July of this year, applauded U.S. District Court Judge Blanche Manning’s decision that bars the Pentagon from funding future Boy Scout Jamborees. This is the only youth organization funded by the Pentagon.
Two lead plaintiffs in the case, which was filed in 1999, Reverend Eugene Winkler, and Rabbi Gary Gerson stated that the judge’s order helps maintain the critical constitutional principle of government neutrality towards religion.
For years, the ACLU has abused the twisting of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof.” To them, those words should be freedom from religion.
But to disagree with the ACLU, is to wind up fighting them in a court of law. This is also them taking away a persons freedom of speech, which is another guarantee of the First Amendment. It comes right after guaranteeing us the freedom to exercise our own individual beliefs.
The ACLU, as some people know, was founded by Roger Baldwin, in association with Crystal Eastman. Both were members of the Communist Party.
I only wish the card carrying members of this organization knew this as well.
I also wonder if the Boy Scouts required it’s members to affirm a belief in Mohammed, Bhudda, or Allah, would they be as adamant in their goal of erasing God from not only this privately funded organization, but from the rest of society as well?
In my opinion, for the ACLU go sue the Boy Scouts of America for their fundamental tradition of having it’s members affirm a belief in God is to sue them of their basic rights of free speech, and freedom of religion.
I would rather my son have a belief in God, which he does. I don’t want a godless organization such as the ACLU telling me, or my son who, or what we can, or can’t believe in.
When the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they never could have imagined an organization that would try its level best to erase God from a society that was founded on religious philosophy and principles.
To all card carrying members of the ACLU, I invite you to reconsider giving this organization your yearly dues. You don’t realize it, but they are also seeking to take away your freedoms as well.
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