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Obama’s talk is good, but his walk is crooked

March 4, 2009

Much ado was made about President Obama’s mentioning of non-believers in his inaugural speech, but now that the rubber has hit the road, Obama has decided to accept the title of Honorary President of the Boy Scouts: Obama was meeting with a delegation of the Boy Scouts in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, at [...]

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Boy Scouts blaming gays, atheists for logging?

February 1, 2009

A few days ago the local newspaper carried a story about the Boy Scouts of America getting in trouble with supporters over land deals that seem irreconcilable with the public perception of the BSA as land conservationists. And though this story has popped up in many newspapers, only one has a council leader appearing to [...]

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Boy Scouts: Enemy of Equality

January 27, 2009

What else can you say about an organization that fought for the right to discriminate against atheists and gay people? Oh, I know. Ignoring the fact that the Boy Scouts (BSA) chose to discriminate ,  is suffering the consequences of it’s choice and could easily get out of it’s self dug hole if it decided [...]

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Boy Scouts evicted over Anti-Gay Bigotry

December 6, 2007

Negotiations have ended and come June 1, 2008 – the Boy Scouts will have to have vacated Beaux Art Building. For three years the Philadelphia council of the Boy Scouts of America held its ground. It resisted the city’s request to change its discriminatory policy toward gay people despite threats that if it did not [...]

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Georgia Accuses Bank of America of Discrimination

June 13, 2006

Bank of America, a national bank here in the United States, recently abstained from donating to the regional Boy Scouts in Valdosta, Georgia because of the ongoing discrimination against homosexuals (and atheists!). In response, Representative Ehrhart and Senator Wiles have vowed to introduce bills that would forbid the state from dealing with companies that discriminates [...]

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