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May June 2010 FS Newsletter.Pub The Freethought Society News Logo and website banner May/June 2010 Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 4 Editor: Margaret Downey and Various Volunteers contest details inside. Published by: The Freethought Society (a chapter of FFRF) Submissions sought. P.O. Box 242, Pocopson, PA 19366-0242 Phone: (610) 793-2737 * Fax: (610) 793-2569 See page 13. Email: [email protected] * Webpage: www.FtSociety.org Purchase Hepburn stamps and mail a letter to Carter! by Margaret Downey This is a Freethought Society (FS) action alert urging Many nontheist organizations around the country are nontheists around the country to visit local post offices to promoting the letter writing campaign. FS suggests that letters purchase Katharine Hepburn stamps. It was no coincidence to Mr. Carter be graced with the Hepburn stamp as a reminder that the Hepburn stamp was released to the public on May 12. that nontheists contribute to society in meaningful ways and Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut on that day in should not be discriminated against. 1907. This “old-fashioned” letter-writing campaign is an effort to This call to purchase Hepburn stamps is not only to honor expose prejudices, negative stereotyping and blatant the memory of a great actress, but to also celebrate the fact disrespect of the nontheist community at the hands of BSA. that she was an atheist. In the October 1991 edition of the Ending discrimination against atheists would be a fitting Ladies Home Journal , Hepburn stated: tribute to Hepburn’s legacy. After six decades of involvement with the Southern Baptist I’m an atheist and that’s that. I believe there’s Convention (SBC), in 2000 Mr. Carter severed ties with that nothing we can know except that we should be kind organization. Mr. Carter stated that SBC’s doctrines did not to each other, and do what we can for other people. align with his Christian beliefs. However, at that time he Hepburn learned at an early age that actions were much better continued his affiliation with the Maranatha Baptists in than prayer. She was the daughter of suffragist and birth Plains, Georgia. control advocate Katharine Martha Houghton . Houghton In July 2009, Mr. Carter issued a position paper indicting worked closely with Margaret Sanger , the founder of an all organized religions for their discriminatory treatment of organization that later became Planned Parenthood. women. With the issuance of his position paper Mr. Carter Hepburn attended Bryn Mawr College which has a long also disassociated himself from his denominational affiliation, history of encouraging freedom of thought. Suffragist saying: Martha Carey Thomas was the second president of Bryn Women and girls have been discriminated against Mawr College and the first female dean in the United States. for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word With all this exposure to strong female role models and of God. heroines of freethought, it’s no surprise that Hepburn had no fear of controversy. She shocked many people by wearing The time is right for Mr. Carter to hear more about the comfortable slacks both in public and in her studio workplace. bigoted membership policies of BSA and how society is She excelled in golf which at the time was considered a negatively affected. Please write to urge Mr. Carter to masculine sport. She also spoke her mind about social issues disaffiliate himself from BSA, just as he did with SBC and concerning a woman’s right to choose, separation of church the Maranatha Baptists. Surely, Mr. Carter does not want his and state, and religion. In her 1973 interview on The Dick reputation of inclusion and kindness to be tarnished by his Cavett Show Hepburn stated that, although she agreed with affiliation with BSA. Mail letters to Mr. Carter at: Christian principles and thought highly of Jesus Christ , she James E. Carter, Jr. c/o Carter Center did not believe in religion or in “The Afterlife.” 453 Freedom Parkway NE Hepburn’s legacy is her afterlife. Her image, captured on Atlanta, GA 30307 film, continues to entertain people around the world. The release of the Hepburn stamp will jump start a letter- Thank you in advance for taking the time to add your voice to writing campaign to urge former President Jimmy E. this protest. Please send a copy of your letter to FS. Letters Carter, Jr. to disassociate himself from the Boy Scouts of will be reprinted in future FS newsletters to inspire others to America (BSA). Mr. Carter is a member of BSA’s Advisory write. The letter writing campaign will continue until Mr. Board. His address was circulated through the Internet via Carter is convinced that disassociating himself from BSA is email and Facebook. the correct moral and ethical decision. Date Set for BSA’s Philadelphia Eviction Trial by Timothy Cwiek On June 14, 2010 a federal jury requirement that BSACLC need trial is scheduled to begin at the only to post a $1 nominal bond to U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia, protect the City’s interests during Pennsylvania. The trial decision the pendency of the lawsuit. could result in the eviction of the In April 2010, Judge Buckwal- Boy Scouts of America’s Cradle ter cleared the way for a jury trial, of Liberty Council (BSACLC) when he acknowledged seventeen from a city-owned building. The disputed facts in the case. The eviction trial is believed to be the large number of disputed facts first of its kind in the country. made it clear to Judge Buckwalter BSACLC, which claims to that a trial to determine the truth serve 87,000 youths in Philadel- was required. phia, Montgomery and Delaware Buckwalter has not identified counties, has been headquartered the facts in question to anyone as in a city-owned building since 1928. of the writing of this article, but jury selection is scheduled to The building is located at 231-251 North 22 nd Street in begin 10 AM on June 14, 2010 in Courtroom 14A of the Center City Philadelphia. Philadelphia anti-discrimination Federal Courthouse (601 Market Street, Philadelphia, statutes are intended to protect citizens from discrimination in Pennsylvania). Interested persons are encouraged to attend the city-owned buildings. Protection is extended to members of trial. Downey is gathering members of the Freethought the transgender community, nontheists, gays, people with Society to demonstrate outside the courthouse. Since the trial disabilities (including those with AIDS), and females. is focusing on discrimination against the homosexual Before the BSA’s declaration that they are a private community, Downey hopes to raise awareness that BSA’s organization (a stance taken in the U. S. Supreme Court case restrictive membership policies effect many other minorities of Dale v. Boy Scouts of America in order to win the as well. decision), Freethought Society President Margaret Downey The legal issue is whether it is unconstitutional for the City filed a nontheist discrimination complaint with the of Philadelphia to remove rental subsidies from an Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PAHRC) organization that refuses to comply with the city’s non- against BSA. Her case took nine years to grind through the discrimination policies. BSA has argued that other city PAHRC (1991-2000) bureaucracy. Once BSA’s profile tenants appear to be in violation of non-discrimination changed from an open-to-the-public youth organization to a policies, including The Colonial Dames of America, and the private organization, Downey’s case was dismissed. The U. S. Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Supreme Court’s acknowledgment that BSA can set their own The Scouts also have portrayed themselves as victims of membership standards cleared the way for BSA to impose an “aggressive” lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender restrictive membership criteria around the country. (LGBT) community. BSA claims that LGBT groups have While BSA can rightfully restrict membership, the City of sought revenge against them since 2000, when the U.S. Philadelphia is not obligated to allow BSA free use of any Supreme Court said the Scouts could exclude openly-gay property or services — especially in consideration of the leaders. In the current legal case, BSA (conveniently) failed to City’s anti-discrimination statutes. mention in their court papers that Downey actually began After many years of legal wrangling, the focus of the City challenging the Scouts’ membership policies back in 1991, of Philadelphia has shifted to removing BSACLC out of the nine years before that Supreme Court ruling. Attorneys for the city-owned building. The Scouts, however, are fighting the City of Philadelphia never addressed nontheist discrimination eviction by pursuing a lawsuit in Federal Court. concerns in this lawsuit. A simple solution is for BSACLC to pay fair-market rent, Downey states that, “A Freethought Society rally at the ending the entanglement problem with the City and the now Federal Courthouse on June 14 th may educate the public, the private Boy Scouts of America (BSA). BSACLC, however, media and those involved in the case that the harm of refuses to pay fair-market rent. discrimination is much deeper than revealed in court papers.” BSA claims they’re being singled out for “punishment” by I will be covering the trial as a journalist for the the City of Philadelphia simply for pursuing their First Philadelphia Gay News. Below is a link to all of the articles Amendment right to exclude certain people from I’ve written about this issue. membership. U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter (a former Scouts official) is handling the case. http://www.epgn.com/pages/results_content? During the past two years, Judge Buckwalter has issued page_label=news_regional&widget=search_content&strin several rulings favorable to the Scouts — including a g=boy+scouts+of+america&open=& Philadelphia Federal Courthouse Rally Announcement The City of Philadelphia and the Boy Scouts of America's trial will only focus on BSA’s discrimination against t Society (FS) members are needed to raise public awareness policies affect many more people beyond the gay community.(BSA) rental dispute is going to trial! The Anyone sympathetic to this issue is encouraged to attend he homosexual community.
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