Apparently, every four years, the Boy Scouts of American hold a National Jamboree (oh god) at Fort A.P. Hill in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It turns out that the ACLU was protesting this on the grounds that the Boy Scouts will pray to Jesus, and that shit shouldn’t fly on public property.
Even though the last shin-dig featured 300 cases of heat stroke and 1 death by electrocution/burning-alive, the freedom-hating pinkos got nowhere with their case. The Wonkette thinks that the ruling by the US Court of Appeals has something to do with “the entire federal government is run by god-nuts who spend all their time on public property muttering to god,” but it’s never that simple.
It probably has something to do with a long tradition in the Western World of military dictatorships fostering close relationships between their warrior caste and young boys. The Spartans did it, the Hitler Youth did it, and now its America’s turn. The religious part is just an excuse to feed the impressionable young men Jesus Juice so that it doesn’t hurt as much — and can’t remember enough to deliver a coherent or credible testimony if it does.