{"id":1847,"date":"2010-05-03T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2010-05-03T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:01:14","slug":"political_correctness_run_amok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Political Correctness Run Amok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/ap\/court-wont-hear-appeal-on-boy-scouts-land-rental-92671154.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;reports today that the Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the San Deigo area Boy Scouts of a ruling that says that the Boy Scouts cannot lease city-owned parkland in San Deigo.&nbsp; The Federal judges have said that the Boy Scouts are a religious group and the lease violates the federal law that prohibits the promotion of religion.&nbsp; The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit on behalf of a lesbian couple and an agnostic couple, each with scouting-age sons.&nbsp; The suit was filed in 2006 right after the City Council voted to extend the 50-year lease for another 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The boy scouts&#8217; response is that they have no theology and only believe that children should &#8220;do duty to God&#8221; to become productive citizens.<\/p>\n<p>So two couples with scouting aged sons can ruin the scouting experience of numerous other scouts because they don&#8217;t like the morals the Boy Scouts are teaching.&nbsp; I think we need more groups teaching morals and community service, not less.&nbsp; I am really sorry this decision will not be overturned.&nbsp; If the two couples involved don&#8217;t like what the Boy Scouts teach, they should start their own group to train good citizens&#8211;they don&#8217;t have to attack someone else&#8217;s group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner&nbsp;reports today that the Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the San Deigo area Boy Scouts of a ruling that says that the Boy Scouts cannot lease city-owned parkland in San Deigo.&nbsp; The Federal judges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1847\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}