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To: dirtboy
"The same right that allows the Boy Scouts to exclude gays also allows gays to exclude protestors. You can't have it both ways"

The BSA had to declare themselves a Christian organization to keep perverted scoutmasters at bay, Homosexuality AKA [Perversion] is not a religion, thanks for clearing that up for us!

40 posted on 07/19/2004 7:10:13 AM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (G W B 2004!)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K
The BSA had to declare themselves a Christian organization to keep perverted scoutmasters at bay,

No they didn't. The BSA had those guidelines since their inception. SCOTUS simply ruled that, under the implied freedom of association in the First Amendment, that the Boy Scouts had the Constitutional right to continue to exclude them as they always had.

Homosexuality AKA [Perversion] is not a religion, thanks for clearing that up for us!

They do not have to be a religion to have the same right to freedom of association.

41 posted on 07/19/2004 7:12:51 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K
The BSA had to declare themselves a Christian organization to keep perverted scoutmasters at bay, Homosexuality AKA [Perversion] is not a religion, thanks for clearing that up for us!

No, the Boy Scouts are a private organization with certain rules as to who can be a member and participate in their events. Their religious aspect is irrelevant to determining their right of free association.

This seems like a pretty clear case to me. Think of it this way- if this gay group is forced to allow protestors into their event, the same argument could be used to make your church take gay members in.

46 posted on 07/19/2004 7:24:45 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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