Re: Inquirer Article- Boy Scouts - Page 3 - PhillyBlog

alesis · #21 (**permalink**) 07-04-2008, 02:41 PM

But then I would be marked as a racist, then whites, blacks, and homosexuals would hate me.

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Originally Posted by Colin P. Varga

Muslims & NAACP have a policy to discriminate against you personally?

Maybe you should hold some hearings and submit a report to a committee which can make recommendations to you, and then you can set your own policy based on those recommendations.

Simon Wolf · #22 (**permalink**) 07-04-2008, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by alesis

Muslim groups refuse to give me literature when I'm on market street. Shouldn't their permits be rescinded since they discriminate? The NAACP rejected me when I went to one of their infamous functions during the days of street-shouldn't they be refused from public buildings?

When the city gives a group a permit for a public demonstration, they aren't supporting them financially; when the city charges the Boy Scouts $1 a year in rent, they are. Also, public protests are protecting under the First Amendment; the Boy Scouts getting a free ride isn't protected by the Constitution.

Understand?

There's another organization in Philly that occupies a city-owned building and pays no rent to the city: the Philadelphia Museum of Art. If the PMA announced it would no longer allow Asians into its galleries, do you think it would be right for them to continue to occupy a city-owned building rent-free?