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  • Re: Dear Prudie's Irresponsible Advice to Philanthropicky

    I don't think 'homophobia' has much to do with it. More like they would like for boy scouting to remain popular. How many boys' parents would enroll their son in a homosexual led scout troop? Considering boy scouts go on overnight camping trips, among other excursions, I don't think many parents would allow their sons to join with homosexual scout ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Cooltruth on April 3, 2008

  • Re: Legal talk

    But the point of the City's actions isn't to make the BSA accept gays -- the Supreme Court already struck down a similar New Jersey law in BSA v. Dale. The City wants to raise the rent, which is financial, and is therefore barred.
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 25, 2007

  • Re: Legal talk

    You're right that the Philadelphia law is a law of general application. Does that make it exempt from the Contract Clause? If, in United States Trust Co., the state had instead passed a law that repealed all transportation laws, would the voiding of the contract have been valid? It still would have impaired the obligation of contract in ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 25, 2007

  • Gay Bashing?

    How does creating policy to exclude gays from Scouting equate with hatred. These policies are in place to protect children against any, however unlikely, threat. Having leaders who are by nature attracted to young men simply violates the basic tenant of this protection. It makes no sense to me that gays have to be in such an uproar over this. If ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Bornelectric on October 24, 2007

  • Legal talk

    Ok let's straighten out a few things: -It's not ''ex ipso facto,'' it's ''ex post facto'', and it's relevant to criminal punishment, not contract law. -The Rule Against Perpetuities applies to conveyances, not contracts, and in any case has an exception for charities, such as the BSA. In addition, the Rule was repealed in Pennsylvania in ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 24, 2007

  • BSA policies and procedures

    The BSA has struggled for decades with its sense of responsibility (as have public education and religious organizations) for protecting its immature and/or impressionable members from possible exposure or exploitation by practicing pedophiles (or atheists, militarists, religious zealots, murderers, etc.). Excesses have attended policy definition, ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Bruce Gruber on October 24, 2007

  • ok, but do they atleast get it back?

    It looks like to me that a gentlemen's contract was formed between the city and the boy scouts of america (bsa) in wich bsa agreed to give the city the structure so long as the city allowed the bsa rent-free access to the structure. At the time i'm assuming there was no underlying statement that the bsa could continue to do so as long as they ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Ferdoc on October 24, 2007

  • The BSA and the Obligation of Contract

    According to this article, ''[t]he Boy Scouts built the historic structure in 1928 and then deeded it to the city, which in exchange agreed to let the scouts use it in perpetuity rent-free.'' If the city really did agree to let the Scouts use the building rent-free in perpetuity in exchange for deeding the building to the city, this is a ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 24, 2007