The Boy Scouts of America will fight to stay in the city-owned building they have occupied since 1928, saying the City of Philadelphia has no right to force them to change their policy barring gay members.
"The scouts intend to stand up for their constitutional rights," said Robert Bork Jr., a spokesman for the national organization, which has a youth membership of about 2.9 million.
"The policy [against gays] is not going anywhere," Bork added.
Late last week, Mayor Street called for the local Cradle of Liberty Council to denounce the national policy, pay fair-market-value rent, or vacate the stately building it occupies at 22d and Winter Streets, near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
i'm not in the business of subsidizing intolerance and discrimination with my city wage tax dollars so i agree with the stfu+gtfo.
sadly there's poor boy scouts that are unwillingly caught in the losing end of this that won't be able to camp, trail hike, tie knots, or do whatever the hell they do. i guess next year's cub scounts won't know what it would be like to discriminate against other people rent-free on public property. definitely breaks my heart.
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