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(1) SUPPORT FOR YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS- No Federal law (including any rule, regulation, directive, instruction, or order) shall be construed to limit any Federal agency from providing any form of support for a youth organization (including the Boy Scouts of America or any group officially affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America) that would result in that Federal agency providing less support to that youth organization (or any similar organization chartered under the chapter of title 36, United States Code, relating to that youth organization) than was provided during each of the preceding 4 fiscal years.
To my untrained eyes this does indicate that there are certain restrictions being placed on the interpretation of existing federal law, namely that any existing federal law applicable in the relevant context cannot be interpreted in such a way as would result in a reduction in the amount of financial support given the group in comparison to the previous four years.
Is this interpretation accurate?
You have to admit, a gay troop leader is sort of creepy.
then
No, a troop leader who molests children is creepy.
No, both are equally creepy. Well... okay... the child molester's more creepy, but the point remains: they're both creepy.
To be a person of strong character, your relationships with others should be honest and open. You should respect and defend the rights of all people. Be clean in your speech and actions, and remain faithful in your religious beliefs. The values you practice as a Scout will help you shape a life of virtue and self-reliance.My beliefs, and the belief systems in which I was raised, hold that prejudice, bigotry and discrimination are bad things to practice. The whole Scout Oath does not say that one must be faithful to a specific morality, but the morality of their religious community. (Which is another problem with the BSA's policy is that it has started to refuse to recognize denominations tolerant of homosexuality.)
Respect of privacy
Adult leaders must respect the privacy of youth members in situations such as changing clothes and taking showers at camp, and intrude only to the extent that health and safety require. Adults must protect their own privacy in similar situations.
"The Los Angeles City Council voted 11 to 0 to cut the city's ties with the Boy Scouts of America.
Most California public high schools have withdrawn sponsorship of local scout troops.
Chicago, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., have told local Scout troops that they can no longer use parks, schools and other municipal sites.
San Francisco's judges cut all ties with the Boy Scouts
The Minneapolis school board voted unanimously to end its sponsorship of Boy Scout troops and to prohibit the Scouts from recruiting new members in the public schools.
Steven Spielberg stepped down...from an advisory board of the Boy Scouts of America, saying that he could no longer associate with a group that engages in 'discrimination.'
Chase Manhattan Bank, Levi-Strauss & Co. and Textron Inc. Wells Fargo severed ties in the early 1990s and recently asked the United Way to steer its $400,000 donation away from the Boy Scouts.
Novell Inc. will no longer match employee contributions to the Boy Scouts of America.
CVS Pharmacy chain stopped funding the Boy Scouts in September, 2001.
Carrier Corporation has stopped funding the Boy Scouts.
HSBC bank stops supporting Boy Scouts.
Scripps Networks has asked the United Way to exclude the Boy Scouts of America from their corporate gift.
Reform Jewish leaders are recommending that parents withdraw their children from membership in the Boy Scouts of America and that synagogues end their sponsorship of Scout troops."
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Did you read it? Because that isn't what the Bill says.
posted by dios at 7:38 AM on July 26, 2006