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• Another victory for the ACLU - Tom Brosz - 11/16/2004 5:00:24 PM
  • The Boy Scouts require that members affirm belief in God... or lie about it. - Mary Anne - 11/17/2004 3:40:58 AM
    • the ACLU is simply excercising its fascist agenda - ebnelson - 11/18/2004 5:32:17 PM
    • re: The Boy Scouts require that members affirm belief in God... or lie about it. - SDG - 11/18/2004 12:39:04 AM
      • You have a good memory. - Mary Anne - 11/18/2004 1:36:01 AM
        • Wish I had more choices about what I get to underwrite. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/18/2004 3:58:25 AM
          • Me too. But I have to be content with eliminating the unConstitutional. - Mary Anne - 11/18/2004 4:04:32 AM
    • re: "affirm belief in God... or lie about it." - Fox - 11/17/2004 4:11:32 AM
      • Yeah, God forbid anyone should have any respect for Rudyard Kipling. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/17/2004 5:12:03 AM
        • The reference was probably to the "White Man's Burden" philosophy that Kipling espoused... - Mary Anne - 11/17/2004 12:19:35 PM
          • The man was born in 1865. - Tom Brosz - 11/17/2004 6:24:20 PM
            • and the Boy Scouts were born in 1910 . . . - Fox - 11/17/2004 10:47:31 PM
              • Were you a Boy Scout? - Tom Brosz - 11/18/2004 1:07:02 AM
                • Briefly - Fox - 11/18/2004 3:05:52 AM
                  • Scout Handbooks - Tom Brosz - 11/18/2004 3:52:39 AM
                    • re: Scout Handbooks - LJ - 11/18/2004 6:43:29 PM
                • No. - Mary Anne - 11/18/2004 1:27:49 AM
  • And people keep thinking the ACLU is a neutral protector of civil rights. - ebnelson - 11/16/2004 5:16:19 PM
  • Those Boy Scouts are dangerous subversives. They should be arrested and sent to Siberia. What a load of crap! (n/t) - David F Mayer - 11/16/2004 5:14:43 PM
    • That reminds me: I need to sign my son up for Cub Scouts! - Gary - 11/17/2004 6:44:22 AM