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   October  22, 2007

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Scouts Charged $200K

 

   

BSA Logo and Color U.S. MapPHILADELPHIA The city has decided that the Boy Scouts chapter here must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts.The organization's Cradle of Liberty Council, which currently pays $1 a year in rent, must pay the increased amount to remain in its downtown building past May 31, Fairmount Park Commission president Robert N.C. Nix said Wednesday.City officials say they cannot legally rent taxpayer-owned property for a nominal sum to a private organization that discriminates. The city owns the land and the Beaux Arts building constructed by the Scouts in 1928.Scouting officials will ask the city solicitor for details on the appraisals that yielded the $200,000 figure, said Jeff Jubelirer, spokesman for the Cradle of Liberty Council.The higher rent money "would have to come from programs. That's 30 new Cub Scout packs, or 800 needy kids going to our summer camp," Jubelirer said. "It's disappointing, and it's certainly a threat." The Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that

 
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Scouts, as a private group,  have a First Amendment right to bar gays from membership.The council adopted a nondiscrimination policy in 2003 but was ordered to revoke it by the National Council, which said local chapters cannot deviate from national rules barring participation by anyone who is openly gay. "Boy Scouts' Rent Hiked Over Gay Ban"
   
         
   
 
   

BIRTH CONTROL FOR CHILDREN Last evening, a school board in Portland, Maine approved a school health clinic being able to provide birth control prescriptions to students in one of its Middle Schools, where most of these children are between 11-13 years old. Once a student has parental permission to visit the health clinic, no specific permission is needed to give the child the pill prescription, and the parent is not even informed that this has occurred. "To enable a Middle School health center to provide birth control prescriptions, as was done in Portland, is an alarming and dangerous practice," said Gary L. Rose, M.D., President and CEO of the Medical Institute in Austin, Texas. Dr. Rose continued, "Birth control pills provide absolutely no protection against the many dangerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. In fact, there is some evidence that it may actually increase that risk as to certain diseases. Sexual intercourse with children of this age constitutes a serious

 
   
crime under the  laws of virtually every state. Credible data shows that at least eight  percent of sexually active teens using the pill for contraception becomes pregnant within twelve months. The existence of serious side effects are but one reason these pills are only available by prescription, and a sexually active person needs to be subject to competent total health care, including testing for diseases and counseling." Contact – Art Coleman (512) 328-6268.
    
         
         
   

BATHED WITH GARDEN HOSE The teen slept on a rolled-up mattress on the dining room floor and bathed in the backyard with a garden hose. For six years, she washed dishes, made beds and cooked for a family that beat her and hid her in a closet when visitors arrived. She never went to school.Simone Celestin's story sounds like a slave narrative from another century, but federal prosecutors say it happened in South Florida. They say Celestin is one of an unknown number of children and teens called "restaveks," who are hidden as slaves within the Haitian immigrant community in Southern "Florida. Trafficking Case Exposes Child Servitude

 
         
 

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Areas of Interest OK Insecurity and self-rejection are in epidemic proportions in our society, and the church is no exception. So many Christians simply don’t like themselves. They feel that until they “arrive” at the place of perfection, God is angry with them. As a result, they live in a state of perpetual frustration—continually rejecting themselves and feeling bad every time they make a mistake. I have found that some of the primary reasons for this wrong mindset are that we don’t have a proper understanding of our righteous identity in Christ. We are trying to change ourselves in our own strength, and we are too impatient—expecting things that took years to develop wrongly to be fixed in a few months or days. I believe that in order for us to experience true freedom and grow in our .... I'm OK and I'm On My Way!

 
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