I am familiar with that situation. My issue is with the sentence from the news article that you quoted, which said, "Unlike the scouts, public officials are also bound by a line of Supreme Court opinions barring taxpayer support of any group that discriminates."
This language is so entirely overbroad, it is meaningless. First, the City Council has the right to pass its own laws and additions to its discrimination statutes, and is not bound by the terms of a suit over a marina in California. They would be "bound" only if someone sued the Phila City Council all the way to the Supreme Court and the SCOTUS bound them based on the terms of a lawsuit in Philadelphia.
The civil rights industry in this nation accepts no law or decision as final, provided they are fighting on the left — an inherent abuse.
Secondly, the phrase "any group that discriminates" is bogus. A wife discriminates against men other than her husband who want to have sex with her. A homeowner discriminates against persons who want to enter his property uninvited. Discrimination has become a code word for "bad" and "evil", when it is fundamentally a life-supporting mental faculty that makes you put your hat on your own head and not someone else's.
As another example of the media's slant on issues, the recent court ruling in Maryland that Maryland's marriage law does not constitute illegal discrimination was assailed in print as "court rules against gay marriage", when in fact the court did nothing of the kind, and even indicated in the decision that the definition of marriage was constitutionally the work of the legislature, not the courts.
To quote the sage of Philadelphia, Ben Franklin, "Believe half of what you see and none of what you read."
The supposed legalities have been thrown in for cover.
It ill be very interesting to see which group(s) gets to rent the building for $1.00 if the Boy Scouts are forced out! I don't think this came out of the blue. some cronies of the mayor and political elite in Philly want this building.