[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17222]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                       THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, no organization has done more to train young 
men to believe in God and country than the Boy Scouts of America. No 
organization is more fundamentally decent and better for young men.
  But the Clinton-Gore administration apparently thinks they are 
dangerous. After Democratic delegates booed a Boy Scout color guard at 
their convention, the Justice Department launched an investigation to 
see whether they should bar the Boy Scouts from Department of Interior 
programs because of their traditional American values.
  They have since backed down. But just the fact that the Clinton-Gore 
administration even contemplated banning the Boy Scouts from national 
parks and programs because of their beliefs is an outrage.
  The Boy Scouts is not a hate organization. It is the premier youth 
organization in America providing training for character and 
volunteerism. The Clinton-Gore administration should stop pandering to 
the loony left.

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