Philly City Council to Boy Scouts: Convert, or Else!

In other business, Council cleared the way for the city to terminate a lease the city has had with the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts since 1928 for the half-acre of land at 22nd and Spring streets where the Boy Scouts built their regional headquarters building.

At issue is the national Boy Scouts policy of discrimination against homosexuals and the Street administration's response that the city should not subsidize an entity that engages in discrimination.

So adhering to a code of morality - the natural law - is discriminatory?

City Solicitor Romulo Diaz said yesterday the city is not pushing the Boy Scouts to leave, preferring them to reject the discriminatory policy or start paying rent.

Perhaps the Scouts should leave Philly and move to an area where they might be appreciated.

"The ball is in the [Boy Scout] council's court," he said.

Jeff Jubelirer, a spokesman for the local Boy Scouts organization, said the Scouts felt "blindsided" by Council's action. He made the same comment last July when the administration and the Fairmount Park Commission gave notice that the local Scouts faced lease termination.

Yesterday, Jubelirer said the city has yet to tell the Cradle of Liberty Council what fair-market-value rent would be.

It isn't about the rent...this is a "back door" effort to get the Scouts to accept immorality as a legitimate lifestyle.

Council's action came on a resolution introduced by Clarke, who said he opposes the fair-market-value rent alternative.

"You should not be able to stay in a publicly funded facility without signing nondiscriminatory language regardless of whether you pay rent," he said.

Sure - make a deal with the devil - compromise your principles and your character. After all, these politicians already have and they want all of society to follow them. Bozos...

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