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Friday, February 22, 2013

Conservatives Blast Calif. Lawmaker's Effort to Strip Boy Scouts of Tax Exemption

Conservatives are blasting a Democratic California lawmaker for introducing a bill to strip the Boy Scouts in California of their tax–exempt status, solely because Scout membership policy doesn’t allow homosexual scoutmasters or scouts.

State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach), announced legislation on Tuesday that he says would remove the state tax exemption for any youth group, including the Boy Scouts, “that discriminates against members and leaders on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.”

“SB 323 seeks to end the unfortunate discriminatory and outdated practices by certain youth groups by revoking their tax exemption privilege should they not comply with our non-discrimination laws,” Lara said.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

go start a gay boy scout troop. leave these kids alone.

Anonymous said...

Go back to your closet, please, and leave our children alone!

Anonymous said...

Gender identity? I thought all you had to do was drop trough and look down to identify gender. This country is slowly going to hell...

Anonymous said...

Leave it to Cali to want to tax the Boy Scouts out of existence.

Anonymous said...

How about this - in the new non-homophobic scouts, instead of Eagle Scouts - how about Rainbow Scouts.

Anonymous said...

Anyone do a background ck on ricardo???

Anonymous said...

If this passes look for the church to be the next target