The Coordinated School Night follows a week of distribution of information to students and targets the young boys who would like to become Cub Scouts. Rob Stone, field director for the Northwest Georgia Council, said the event is taking place in four other counties the same night, and a similar event will take place in Polk County on Sept. 13.
“We’ve signed up over 1,800 new families each of the past two years using this method and hope to sign up 2,000 more this year,” said Stone.
For more information contact the NGC at 706-235-5545 or by email to kmeacham@bsamail.org.
Wonder if the information they are passing out includes the statement... gays or Atheists need not apply because we dont want your kind.
Here is a link to Parent Information Guide published by the BSA...
http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/520-259.pdf
Scroll down to page 7 and look at the cost for parents & kids to join Cub Scouts and tell me this isnt about raising money. If they are hoping to sign up 2000 families that would mean they are hoping to raise $30,000.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html?hpid=z3
If they are allowed the use of the schools to recruit new members then any other organization should be allowed the same access.
Whether you explicitly call the Boy Scouts a hate group or not, what conclusion would any reasonable person draw when you contrast them with a group like the KKK?
Also...the kind of public money distinction you've drawn is what the courts have traditionally described as content or view point discrimination.
But i will continue to oppose their use of public facilities to pass out their information. By allowing them into the schools to pass out this information the schools are supporting their discrimination. What does that say to the youth who may be gay or Atheists? It tells them that their school system supports people who think they shouldnt have the same rights as everyone