Philly’s Hate of the BoyScouts Has a $900k Pricetag

Philadelphia hates the boyscouts. For almost a decade, they have used legal maneuvers to bully and persecute in their attempt to evict the scouts from their building. All because they scouts don’t allow gay kids and child molesting grownups in their ranks. Now that the court battles have failed, the city of Philadelphia has to pay the court costs of the scouts- almost 900 Thousand Dollars’ worth.

From the Dailymail here:

The city must pay nearly $900,000 after a failed effort to evict the Boy Scouts of America because of the group’s ban on gays, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The post-trial ruling is just the latest twist in a decade-long legal dispute over the Boy Scout oath, which requires members to be ‘morally straight.’

The order is a setback for the financially strapped city. ‘We do not as a city support that kind of behavior,’ Nutter said Wednesday. ‘We’ve tried to take a number of steps to get the Boy Scouts out of a city-related building.’

The city insisted at a June 2010 trial that nonprofits given free use of its property must abide by local anti-discrimination laws, which include equal protection for gays. But the jury found the city’s reason violated the local Scout council’s First Amendment rights.

This is a case of liberals trying to stamp out freedoms or religion and speech in order to force children to accept that anal sex between men is somehow morally okay. Pretty evil if you think about it.