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Have you all seen the Time article about the fight between the City of Philadelphia (mostly the mayor) and the BSA?

 

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1810449,00.html

 

(Make sure you get the entire URL)

 

Ok.. here's my thought... remove the building (Leave No Trace) and give the property back. I am sure the BSA can find a more hospitable location.. especially if the politics of the City is going to blindly enforce integration of ALL social groups.

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hops, if you don't want to read it, don't read it.

 

As for what the city of Philadelphia wants, it is the same thing many United Ways have wanted, and what a number of other governmental and non-governmental organizations have wanted: To enforce their own non-discrimination policies. The BSA is free to enforce their membership policies within the BSA, but they cannot impose their membership policies on other organizations or the government.

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Yeah Ed, those sweetheart deals are only for companys that make nice campaign contributions. The City of Philadelphia could have offered them a much better deal then what they want now. I have lived and worked here all my life and to make anyone go from $1 to a quarter of a million a year is just plain ridiculus, but so is a good amount of that game called "politics".

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But Ed, leasing public property to a discriminatory organization for $1/year is in violation of the Philadelphia Fair Practices Ordinance, which dates back at least 40 years. The city can't legally give the BSA a sweetheart deal like that.

 

Merlyn, if this is fact, why did Philadelphia do this in the 1st place?

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