Boy Scouts Say They're Like KKK Youth

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/01/011006scouts.htm

The California Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether the city of Berkeley violated the First Amendment rights of a group of young sailors connected to the Boy Scouts of America.

Berkeley, celebrated in the 1960s as the home of the Free Speech Movement, revoked free berthing that the Berkeley Sea Scouts received for five decades at the Berkeley Marina. The city targeted the group in 1998 because the Boy Scouts bar atheist and gay members, and such conduct ran contrary to the city's 1997 policy of providing free berthing only to nonprofits without policies of membership discrimination.

The case challenges the legality of removing or withholding public subsidies from groups whose ideals run counter to the government's. During an hour of oral arguments, some of the justices thought out loud about the case's implications.

Justice Marvin Baxter wondered who else could get free subsidies at the marina if the scouts were correct.

[One_Life_To_Give]

1. Do SeaScouts have same restrictions?

It's been a few years since I lead an Explorer group. And I don't remember anything specific about sexual orientation or religion at that level of the organization. Granted we were affiliated to get the 50million in insurance coverage. So we didn't necessarily follow all the details that Texas may have wished.