Shows Total Intolerance for Christian Beliefs and Values
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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 homosexual scouts.
The organization’s Cradle of Liberty Council, which 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 on which the council’s 1928 Beaux Arts building sits.
Scout 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,” Mr. Jubelirer said. “It’s disappointing, and it’s certainly a threat.”…
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback[...] So, the Philadelphia Council of Boy Scouts are now faced with having to pay fair market value (the horror!) for their office space. Of course they’re whining about this (”But we discriminate for the kids!”). I say stick it to ‘em. [...]