PA Celebrates Court Judgement For Boy Scouts in Philadelphia Case
PA Celebrates Court Judgement For Boy Scouts in Philadelphia Case
A jury has decided in the Boy Scouts favor to keep their facilities
which serve inner city youth.
Outside the courthouse, a lawyer for the Boy Scouts, Jason Gosselin, told Fox News the Scouts won on the most important issue, that of First Amendment rights. The jury found the city posed an unconstitutional condition on the organization by asking it to pay $200,000 annual rent on property it was leasing for a dollar a year, in a building the Scouts built and paid for themselves, all because the city felt the Scouts were in violation of Philadelphia's anti-discrimination laws.
"It is a rejection of adult homosexuals seeking to punish a
moral youth group dedicated to serving inner city youth who do not
have cars to travel to meetings outside the city. It is a victory
over political bullies who simply can not get their way under the
law so they use intimidation on young people to extort $200,000
from a bare bones social action group devoted to thousands of inner
city youth", says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public
Advocate.
Back in September 2008 Public Advocate filed "right to know"
motions with the City of Philadephia and the city of Philadelphia
refused to provide any information under their "right to know"
laws. In effect the city attempted to close down the Boy Scouts and
sabatoged attempts by Public Advocate to stop them.
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http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/23/boy-scouts-battle-in-court/