Government Loves Boy Scouts
While the evidence suggests that God doesn’t love the Boy Scouts as much as the love themselves, our government thinks they are vital to national security and is willing to violate the Constitution to support them.
Doing a little reading this evening about the state of our government’s Boy Scout support, I discovered a few interesting things. First, I learned that a judge in the Northern Illinois U.S. District Court issued a ruling earlier this month which bars government support of future Boy Scouts Jamborees. The decision is available (in PDF form) from the ACLU’s website; it contains a thorough description of how the Boy Scouts meet the standard of a religious organization, and as such, how explicit government support thus violates the Constitution’s prohibition of a link between government and religion. Seems logical to me, and would seem to put this whole issue to bed. Oh, if it were only that easy.
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Now you see why I find this so fascinating? It’s clear that the Constitution forbids our government from supporting organizations that mandate religious faith (like the Boy Scouts), and it’s also pretty clear that there’s no way the Senate would get the country to amend that ban out of the Constitution. So in order to get around it, the Senate is trying to pass laws that aim to prevent ordinary taxpayers from having sufficient standing to bring suit — “what we do might be unconstitutional, but you don’t have the right to file a court case to demonstrate that, so we can do it anyway.” And as the final straw, they did all of it by declaring that the Boy Scout Jamboree is vital for national security.
Read the whole article for the gory details and to follow links to referenced documents.
Just as the self-sacrifice of young males is vital to the survival of terrorism, the self-sacrifice of young American males is vital to the survival of the nation. Both place irrational values above human life.
Is a nation or a terrorist organization that depends upon human sacrifice for its own survival something worth preserving? Only a fool would fight for his own slavery and the “right” of others to sacrifice his life.
A nation is an irrational, inanimate entity, like a rock or the wind. It is not a living thing like a human being.
Is it a nation we should fight to protect or our own lives and freedoms?
Once protecting the nation becomes more important than protecting the lives and rights of the people who make up the nation, the nation has become nothing but an excuse for massive violations of human rights. Such an organization of humans–a nation if you will– is also in its dying days. A body that devours the cells that comprise it cannot survive. A building that crushes its own foundation will fall.
If nothing else, the Boy Scouts are certainly useful in grooming young boys for The Selective Service. That’s child abuse.
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July 30th, 2005 at 12:47 am
and now *this* … Manitou is definitely in a bate. CH