One of the guiding principles of the tea-party movement is based on a myth

[Winehole23]

(burp)

[LnGrrrR]

Don't they have that first amendment right in public? Are you saying that our first amendment rights stop on public land? Think about the line you are drawing.

Personally, I'm ok with the Boy Scouts meeting up on base, or public lands, etc etc.

But that would also means it's perfectly fine for the KKK or other discriminatory groups to meet up on base, as well, which currently isn't the case. The Boy Scouts are an exception to the rule.

It's not that at all. I am for the rights of freedom of association without being pressured to accept people they don't want, and hunted down and persecuted if they don't bend to other people's desires.

And they have that right. However, they do not have the right to be given exclusive access to certain areas while they discriminate, for obvious reasons.

Watch where you place that line at. It could then be argued that any group who is not 100% genized can be barred from public land. Nearly all parks are public land. Where else would you have Boy Scouts have their massive Jamborees?

I am fine with Boy Scouts using public lands, as long as they use them in the same way that other discriminatory groups do so. However, in some of the cases you listed, the Boy Scouts had exclusive access to these areas (ie. preferential treatment).

Again, the Boy Scouts have the right to be dumbasses all they want. But they do not have the right to certain areas that other discriminatory organizations do not have access to.

[ChumpDumper]

Boy Scouts need to quit having a free ride on public lands regardless of their politics.

[Nbadan]

An argument could be made that ALL of the Tea party's 'guiding principles' are based on myth...

[DarrinS]

An argument could be made that the 9/11 TWOOF movement is based entirely on myths...

fify

[boutons_deux]

Big Myth about Tea Baggers who dress up in colonial costumes.

US tea smugglers, who were going to lose their smuggling business to the King's new tea monopolist and LOWER tea taxes, paid colonialists to DRESS UP AS INDIANS.

ing ignorant bubbas.

[LnGrrrR]

Come to think of it, I don't even understand why ACLU would get vilified for pushing some "agenda"... don't thousands of groups push their agendas all day long? I'm pretty sure that conservative think tanks push conservative agendas... do you vilify them WC?