If you could make the slightest realistic case that the support of a military base for a Boy Scout Jamboree is in some way the government acting to "establish a religion," you might have a point.

I read the article. In one place it says the Jamboree is held only every four years; in another, it quotes the local Congresswoman as claiming "the jamboree provides a unique training opportunity for troops." Yeah -- 17,000 tents, once every four years for ten days. Do you suppose all of the other boot camp rotations in that four-year cycle are under-trained because they missed the Jamboree?

If the $2 million/yr figure is the correct one (as opposed to the $30,000 itemization that appears in the same article), that's $8 million total, or slightly less than 1/4 of the Jamboree's total budget, given as $26 million. Pretty hefty support for an organization that insist on being "faith-based" when it suits them. I wonder how that breaks down in millions of dollars per actual recruit obtained...

This "zero tolerance" crap is getting old, and the Left isn't fooling anyone as to its actual motivations.

And those would be... what? Acceptance in society for atheism and non-mainstream faiths? OOOoooo, how evil! How dangerous to the American Way!

Odd that we never see the ACLU swooping down when Native Americans insist on the right to control government-owned land because some ancient god ate lunch there once.

Yeah, well why don't you ask some Native Americans about how the government got to control that land in the first place? There's one HabZone regular who qualifies... start with him.

Besides which, that remark has absolutely no relevance to the issue you opened with your initial post, and makes damn little sense on its own. It doesn't even come up to Bork's grasping at straws about federal support for other, demonstrably secular youth groups.

And before you remind me what the C stands for in YMCA... when's the last time you heard of a religion test for admission to the Y? "No atheists in our pool, nosiree!"

In any event, when the decison is appealed -- and you know it will be -- it will probably be overturned. Using the recent SCotUS decisions about the 10 Commandments, the historical association of the US military with the Boy Scout Jamboree (since 1937, it says here) will pass "the Texas test", and be allowed.

(When and why did they relocate from Philmont, anyway?)