ACLU Loses Court Battle To DoD And Boy Scouts Of America
Good news. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed the ACLU’s lawsuit against the Department of Defense for supporting the National Scout Jamboree. From PRNewswire-USNewswire:
For more than 25 years, Boy Scouts have held the National Scout Jamboree every four years at Fort A.P. Hill near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Scouts from all over the country camp together for ten days and participate in activities emphasizing physical fitness, appreciation of the outdoors, and patriotism. Seven Presidents have attended the Jamboree since President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. The Jamboree grounds at Fort A.P. Hill are open to the public, and an estimated 300,000 visitors attended in 2005 along with 43,000 Scouts and their leaders. The 2010 Jamboree will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Boy Scouts of America.
The United States Congress has found that the military’s logistical support for the National Scout Jamboree is an incomparable training opportunity for our armed forces. The Jamboree requires the construction, maintenance, and disassembly of a “tent city” capable of supporting tens of thousands of people for a week or longer.
Nevertheless, the ACLU sued the Department of Defense in 1999 over its support for the Jamboree. In 2005, a federal district court in Chicago concluded the Jamboree statute (10 U.S.C. section 2554) was unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause because Scouting has a nonsectarian “duty to God” requirement. DoD appealed the district court’s injunction against military support under that statute for the 2010 Jamboree.
In today’s ruling, the federal Court of Appeals in Chicago reversed the district court’s decision, concluding that the taxpayers named as the plaintiffs in the lawsuit did not have standing to sue DoD in the first place.
“We are pleased that today’s ruling preserves the training opportunity
for the military that Congress wanted it to have,” said Robert H. Bork, Jr., spokesperson for the Scouts.“Today’s decision allows everyone to get back to planning the centennial Jamboree celebrating Boy Scouts’ 100th birthday,” said George A. Davidson, the attorney for Boy Scouts of America who argued before the Seventh Circuit last year.
This is good news for the Boy Scouts Of America. The ACLU is no longer the defender of constitutional freedoms it once was. It’s now deteriorated into a socialist, secular-progressive, agenda-driven organization bent on removing Christianity from all aspects of American life. Officials within the ACLU deny this of course, but their actions show otherwise.
I am happy that the Boy Scouts won this legal battle. I earned my Eagle rank in the early 80’s in Mississippi and was also an assistant Scoutmaster here in Florida for ten years. Some of my best memories are from my time in the Boy Scouts. I hope to be able to one day get directly involved again as an assistant scoutmaster or maybe an adult volunteer for the local council. The ACLU opposing the BSA is just wrong on so many levels but the BSA has been a target of the ACLU for years. The BSA won this battle. I wonder what insidious plan of attack the ACLU has for the BSA in the future.
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