truthpusher
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:42 PM
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Boy Scouts expect ban on Pentagon support to be overturned |
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http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5155&ContentID=x51828&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154&URL=http://localhost/apwirefeed/d8billig1.xml&NewsSection=NationalHeadlinesBoy Scouts expect ban on Pentagon support to be overturned ------------------- July 25, 2005 2:33 PM The Associated Press ------------------- MCLEAN, Va. A Boy Scouts spokesman says he expects a federal judge's ban on Pentagon support for future Boy Scout Jamborees to be appealed and overturned.
More than 40-thousand scouts, leaders and volunteers are meeting this week at Fort A-P Hill, the Virginia base where they've held their jamboree every four years since 1981.
Judge Blanche Manning ruled in March that the Pentagon cannot financially support the event in the future because the Scouts require members to swear an oath of duty to God.
Scouts spokesman Bob Bork says that doesn't make the Boy Scouts a church or a religion. He adds that the military hosts and supports the jamboree as part of a training exercise in crowd control.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:45 PM
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He adds that the military hosts and supports the jamboree as part of a training exercise in crowd control their recruitment plan.
those letters are so close together on the keyboard.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:46 PM
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2. What a lovely little fight. Do we jam the army down kids' throats or... |
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do we let the government sponsor oaths of duty to God. Why this is an issue I do not know.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:47 PM
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3. they boys scouts are a private company based on religion. I remember |
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when there was sign over our scout house in Texas that said "whites only". Actually it didn't say whites only, it said "No N------ allowed".
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:49 PM
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4. extremely bad timing on their part |
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no, I'm not making this up. BC-APNewsAlert,0038
BOWLING GREEN, Va. (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America says five of the organization’s leaders were killed in an electrical accident during the opening day of the Boy Scout Jamboree.<QA> AP-WS-07-25-05 1945EDT
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Mon Jul-25-05 07:36 PM
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5. a training exercise in crowd control??? |
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What, are they going to roll out their new microwave Fry-Daddy crowd control gun?
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Mon Jul-25-05 07:41 PM
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6. Who can blame them, I mean look how well it turned out last time... |
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