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The problem for us is that the ACLU does not pay a price whenever they pull this BS on someone.In fact their attorneys often get public money. If they had to pay a high price every time they went up against a righteous group like the Scouts they would stop this nonsense in a hurry. If there are no consequences for them it will only get worse.

If there are no consequences for them it will only get worse.

I'm all for 'loser pays' tort reform.

"The problem for us is that the ACLU does not pay a price whenever they pull this BS on someone."

There may be a way to have the ACLU made to pay the price for their "BS."

From U.S. Supreme Court case HAFER v. MELO, 502 U.S. 21 (1991), the court was asked for judicial review of federal statute 42 U.S.C. 1983.

Quoting from the majority opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, federal statute 42 U.S.C. 1983, states:

"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State . . . subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured. . . ."

The ACLU individual members are advancing and advocating, under the color "usage" the "deprivation of...rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution,"and thus are damaging and injuring the Boy Scouts in which the individuals of the ACLU are liable to pay for the damages and injuries they have caused.

Amendment I

"or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

Not being a Boy Scout or a member of that organization, I have no jurisdiction to file a federal law suit agains the ACLU using 42 U.S.C. 1983 as the basis for the suit.

Maybe a Boy Scout member who is a member of the forum could take up the cause.