One Step Closer To A Decision About The Boy Scout Camp In San Diego
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 18:30:00 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8903Here in my hometown of San Diego, there's been a long time effort to remove the Boy Scout Camp from Balboa Park. This is being spearheaded by the ACLU -- the long running court case to eject the Boys Scouts from Balboa Park is regarding the Boy Scouts official policy of discriminating against atheist, non-theist, and LGBT leaders, parents, and children, and how these policies regarding religious creed violate state and federal law, 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals denial for en banc review to a San Diego-based Boy Scouts group in a case that raises tough church-and-state questionsas well as how these policies based on sexual orientation and gender identity violate state law. Essentially, the City of San Diego is, and has been subsidizing discrimination by the Boy Scouts on public parkland with below market lease rates. San Diego is no longer defending the below market leases in the ongoing court cases, so it's only the Boy Scouts at this point that are arguing that they should be allowed to discriminate against leaders, parents, and children because of their religious creed, sexual orientation, and/or
gender identity.
