Sam Brownback: “I want to put a real case in front of us. On January 11, 2001, the News & Observer reported that the Chapel…”

“I want to put a real case in front of us. On January 11, 2001, the News & Observer reported that the Chapel Hill-Carroboro school board voted to give Scouts until June to either go against the rule of their organization or lose their sponsorship and meeting places in schools. That school board says: By June, you either change--go against the Boy Scouts organization--or lose your privileges to get into the schools. Under the Helms amendment that was adopted, the school board in this district would be the one that would have to say: This is why we are blocking the Boy Scouts from being in this school. This is what we are doing. And if they don't, if they don't have the rationale, then they are going to lose their Federal funding. Under the Boxer amendment, which is basically the current law, the Boy Scouts have to sue to say: We have a right to be in this school. That is the law today. The Boxer amendment just basically renews the law as it is currently today.”