Philadelphia: A Conflict of Freedoms Presages a Clash of Civilizations?
NEW YORK, NEW YORK * 9 DECEMBER 2007 Citizen of the USA Stephen M. St. John addresses the international community in Washington and here in New York City, all members of the US Congress as well as other organizations and individuals, public and private, and laments the folly of the Philadelphia City Council's overturning of the nearly century old accommodation for the Philadelphia Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The decision to end the token lease of land on which the Scouts erected their building so long ago (New York Times, 6 December 2007, page A26) came after the Scouts' steadfast refusal to accept new, nondiscriminatory language in the lease, which would have been tantamount to condonation of homosexuality and a concomitant surrender of deeply rooted moral and religious convictions. Thus, a traditional practice of government sponsorship of a civic organization deemed beneficial in innumerable ways not just to the community but to the nation -- and, indeed, other nations -- succumbed to pressure groups intent on destroying communal standards.
Spearheading the decades long effort to divide the people and undermine morality is the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), which acts according to the pernicious teachings of the Talmud. A hidden danger, the Talmud is the lifeblood of the likes of Jack Ruby, Jack Abramoff and the psychopathic Zionist Neoconservatives who put American muscle on Mesopotamian patrol with their clever lies about 9/11 and WMDs in Iraq, and who wish to provoke yet another needless attack, this time on Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can draw a useful lesson from Philadelphia's decadence and the ADL's global pretensions. The very same Talmudic Jews who have succeeded in casting a shadow of homosexuality across the USA are using the issue of homosexuality to lubricate the "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam. For it is the God fearing Muslims who will not compromise their religious beliefs especially with regard to the prohibition against homosexuality. This is why Iran's peaceful nuclear energy program must be self sustained and self sustaining. Otherwise, dependence on outside sources of nuclear fuel would be subject to potential disruption by other nations or international organizations intent on compromising Islam.
When you hear the war slogan "they hate our freedoms," ask yourself "which freedoms?"
Stephen M. St. John
Post Office Box 449
Rockefeller Center
New York, New York 10185
Homosexuals have constantly attacked the Boy Scouts. In 2000, the Supreme Court decided a case — Boy Scouts of America v. Dale — involving a flagrantly homosexual scout from New Jersey who was barred from serving as troop leader. The court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that, as a private organization, the Boy Scouts had a First Amendment right to set its membership rules.
Now homosexuals in Philadelphia (the “City of Brotherly Love”) have overruled the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Boy Scouts’ policy is “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The Scouts only ban people who publicly broadcast their sexual tastes. They say they bar flagrant homosexuals in order to protect young boys from possible harm. They point out that Philadelphia suffers from the leading murder and violent crime rate in the USA (406 homicides in 2006). Most of this violence is committed by fatherless young men.
This did not matter to Philadelphia City Solicitor Romulo, who is openly homosexual. For three years Romulo spearheaded the city’s attack on the Scouts, threatening to evict them from a municipal building where the Scouts have resided since 1928.
The Beaux Arts building, hailed as the birthplace of the Boy Scouts, is the seat of the seventh-largest chapter of the Boy Scouts, and the first of the more than 300 council service centers built over the past century.
Romulo and his gang attacked the Scouts because the city owns the half-acre of land where the building stands. The Boy Scouts erected the ornate building, and gave it to the city in 1928. Since then, they have leased the land for $1 a year. Romulo told the Scouts that their rent would suddenly become $200,000 a year. The Scouts said $200,000 a year would cut into summer-camp funds for 800 needy children. The Scouts serve more than 69,000 young people, mostly from the inner city, and focus on mentoring and after-school programs.
On June 1, 2008, the Scouts will be evicted from a building that the Scouts built with their own money. Over the years they put $5 million worth of upgrades into it. The land is worth more because the Scouts developed it. Now rich developers will take it over, and perhaps change the building into a “gay pride” center supported by taxpayers. Each June, Philadelphia taxpayers are required to finance activities connected with “Gay Pride Month.”
The ADL started focusing on this case in May 2003 when the national Boy Scouts held their annual meeting in Philadelphia. During the conference, a local scout announced on television that he was as homosexual, and was dismissed by the local chapter.
Stacey Sobel, (Jewish) executive director of Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, a homosexual advocacy group based in Philadelphia, said: "Allowing the Boy Scouts to use this building rent free sends a message that the city approves of their policy. We are not looking to kick the Boy Scouts out. We just want them to play by the same rules as everyone else in the city."
The Scouts had a lease “in perpetuity” with Philadelphia, which the City Council broke.
The Boy Scouts tried to find a compromise between the city and their own national office. In 2005 they agreed to a policy statement adopted by the Boy Scouts in New York, which affirmed that, "prejudice, intolerance and unlawful discrimination in any form are unacceptable." This unacceptability was unacceptable to homosexuals and the ADL.
THE GOOD NEWS
Homosexuals are no closer to getting into the Scouts than when this started. The Scouts will get a new building, perhaps a better one. Big money will come to the rescue. (Unknown to most people, the primary financial supporter of the Scouts is the Mormon Church.) Also, the Scouts can sue Philadelphia to recover the money they paid to erect the building and improve the land. Philadelphia’s taxpayers will get stuck with the bill, not the homosexuals that brought this about.
Once again, homosexuals and the ADL have attacked an organization that has a history of making positive changes in communities. As with the rest of the USA, they have pushed Philadelphia another step into the sewer.
If I were a Philadelphia attorney, I’d start looking for the parents of the now displaced youths. A class action suit for loss of services should cost the city more than enough to buy the land that the building stands on.
There are more former Boy Scouts and scout supporters as attorneys and high level politicians than there are homosexuals. There are probably far more former Scouts who are CEOs than there are homosexual CEOs. Perhaps if Philadelphia gets raked over the coals for this action, it might lead other cities to think before they bend over for homosexuals and the ADL thugs.