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Scout Law
16 November 2004The Department of Defense has dropped its sponsorship of Boy Scout programs in the settlement of a lawsuit brought by the Illinois ACLU, which claimed the funding was unconstitutional because the Boy Scouts excluded people who wouldn't swear an oath to God. Said Charles Peters, a lawyer assisting the ACLU, "'It is critical that the Pentagon send this very clear signal to its units across the globe to insure that government officials are not engaged in religious discrimination in their official capacity.'" The settlement will only affect 422 Scouting programs, most of which are based on military bases, out of about 120,000 nationwide.
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