Yesterday we reported on how the Philadelphia's Boy Scouts will be evicted from their city-owned headquarters because they refuse to accept the gay folk. From today's NY Times:

A scout leader who once sued the City of Berkeley for challenging a national Boy Scout ban on members who are gay or atheist has been arrested on felony charges that for at least five years he sexually abused young males in the troops he led.

Sick, yes, but oh-so entertaining!

It's all over for Philadelphia's Boy Scouts of America.

The organization refused to renegotiate its anti-gay policies and will now definitely face eviction from their tax-subsidized headquarters. We've been covering this story for some time now, but we're consistently impressed with the Scouts' tenacity. Consider this quote from national spokesman Gregg Shields,

Since we were founded, we believe that open homosexuality would be inconsistent with the values that we want to communicate with our leaders. A belief in God is also mentioned in the Scout oath. We believe that those values are important. Tradition is important. Our mission is to instill those values in scouts and help them make good choices over their lifetimes.

Yeah, well, your "good choices" have made you homeless. We'd rather be a sinning cocksucker with a roof over our - um - heads, than a homeless wimp who refuses to evolve.

And our mother wonders why we loathed our brief Boys adventure.

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Most well known for its diarrhea-inducing, overpriced burritos, Chipotle's hoping to make a bigger social impact by supporting the Boy Scouts of America, an organization that refuses to admit gay leaders. A new Nassau County franchise has asked customers to donate $5 in exchange for a modest meal that's big on homophobia. Here's World Class Stupid's facetious take on Chipotle's activist make:

…The liberals convinced the government to stop giving us tax dollars, which is why we really appreciate Chipotle doing fundraising for us. It helps us keep going without the kids we don't want, and it sends a message to all the left-wing activists that even if they can get the government to stop supporting a discriminatory organization, there are overpriced burrito-vendors who will.

So come one, come all! Show those militant lefties that we don't need them, and support your local Boy Scouts.

This whole thing's giving us gas…

Philadelphia isn't fucking around with the anti-gay Boy Scouts. The city of Brotherly Love canceled the Scouts' cushy $1 rent because of their refusal to hire openly gay leaders. And it seems they've put a price on discrimination: $200,000. The city has decided that the Boy Scouts chapter here must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts.

The organization's Cradle of Liberty Council, which currently pays $1 a year in rent, must pay the increased amount to remain in its downtown building past May 31,

Now that they have to pay up, Scout officials are playing the "think of the children" card. Scout Spokesman Jeff Jubelirer says "[The money] would have to come from programs. That's 30 new Cub Scout packs, or 800 needy kids going to our summer camp. It's disappointing, and it's certainly a threat." Boo hoo.

Democrat Bill Richardson dissed the Boy Scouts of America last night. During a debate with fellow presidential candidates, Richardson said he would not take a symbolic Scout seat because the organization discriminates against gays.

Gov. Bill Richardson said Wednesday night that he is if elected president he would refuse to accept the position of Honorary Chair of the Boy Scouts of America because of Scouting's ban on gays.
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"No, I wouldn’t, because I think as president I would commit myself, number one, that I will be a leader that prevents discrimination on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation," he said.

The Scouts, of course, don't accept openly gay leaders. Nor do they have a place for atheists. Good thing most of them can't vote…

With the Judge Janet Neff scandal behind him, Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback's apparently spending his grumbles on another nemesis, fellow GOP hopeful Mitt Romney.

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Philadelphia's Boy Scouts may want to follow their lady counterpart's lead and start selling cookies. The city of Brotherly Love has revoked the anti-gay, Christian-based group's rent free lease on their half-acre HQ.

The Philadelphia Scouts - who go by the name Boy Scouts of America's Cradle of Liberty Council - first moved into the tony spot in 1928, when the Philadelphia Art Museum donated the land for the historical group. Council members voted yesterday, however, that the city cannot offer such incentives to a group that bans gays. The United States supreme court ruled in 2000 that the group has the constitutional right to exclude homos, but warned them that they may face consequences for doing so. The Evening Bulletin fills us in on the Philadelphia details:

The council resolution, introduced by Councilman Darrell Clarke and passed by a vote of 16-1 Thursday, claims the national Boy Scouts organization "has a policy of discrimination based on sexual orientation … and has required the local Boy Scouts to implement its discriminatory policy by excluding participation on the basis of sexual orientation."

It continues, "The local Boy Scouts unfortunately has implemented that discriminatory policy and publicly has declared its intention to continue doing so… The Boy Scouts' policy and conduct is directly contrary to the principles of equal access and opportunity enshrined in Philadelphia law."

Philadelphia's decision is hardly the first time the Scout's anti-gay ways nulled their privileges - the group's nautical division, the Sea Scouts, recently sued Berkley after the city repealed their rent free docking space. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear it.

The Berkeley Sea Scouts, a boys club that is affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America and teaches sailing, carpentry and plumbing recently lost their free berthing priveleges because the Boy Scouts discriminate against gays and atheists. Since it costs around $500 to berth a boat in Berkeley, the Sea Scouts are pretty pissed that they can't receive the benefits of the policy without following its non-discrimination rule.

That's why they are taking their ill-fated fight to the U.S. Supreme Court where it may or may not be heard. We personally are thrilled that all those Sea Scout boats won't be cluttering up the harbors in Berkeley, because we've been on the waiting list for a berthing spot for months now.

Scouts Head To Supreme Court Over Gay Ruling [365 Gay]

Everyone knows the Boy Scouts is a pretty homophobic organization, and one NY state senator is lobbying the governor to keep those stick-widdling, marshmallow roasting haters out of the governor’s mansion.

State Senator Thomas Duane of Manhattan was invited by the Twin Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts to join them at the Albany mansion. The group is planning a reception Thursday on character-building programs.

In a letter to Governor Pataki this week, Duane, who is openly gay, says the governor is sending a bad message by allowing "a discriminatory organization" to use state facilities.Pataki spokesman Kevin Quinn tells the Albany Times Union the governor won't ban the Boy Scouts, calling them "an American institution."

Actually, while we loathe discrimination of any kind, we do thing the Boy Scouts should be allowed to hold their little reception inside the mansion. We hear there are a few pink badge-wearing scouts who are just dying to get inside and do a little redecoration. The Interior Design merit badge is a hard one to come by and when given the opportunity, you gotta’ jump if you wanna’ go full Eagle Scout.

Gay state senator wants Boy Scouts kept out of executive mansion [NY Blade]

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• In our opinion there's only one person who should be banned from the boy scouts. He's the guy wearing a sequined glove, plastic nose and carries a chimp named Bubbles.

• A novel aimed at teens, which involves meetings between gays over the Internet, has been banned in a Tacoma-area school district due to its "casual and loose approach to sex" and not because it's a book about a bunch of queers in high school. No, really.

• Last week the city of Poznan, Poland denied a LGBT group a permit for a pride march saying it would “be a serious danger to social order and property.” Supporters showed up anyway and were promtply arrested. Whew. The threat to Poland's frail social order is over.