California Supreme Court to review whether judges can be Boy Scouts

Associated Press ^ | 12-21-02

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court is considering prohibiting state judges from being members of the Boy Scouts because of its refusal to admit gays, the chief justice said.

The move, announced Thursday, comes months after San Francisco's judges and others cut ties with the organization for the same reason. The San Francisco Bar association and other groups recently asked the high court to revamp the rules.

[paguch]

WoW. Here is California, a supposedly Catholic oriented state banning participation in a christian organization. Will California be the first state to completely ban religion? I think it will be several years before they do that.

[muawiyah]

Once California is returned to Mexico this sort of thing will not happen.

(Note: "returned" used only as a rhetorical device since earlier American colonial claims to the territory supercede those of Mexico, a state established long after the USA which acquired right to those claims directly from the colonial governments asserting them. The USA did not challenge the legitimacy of the Spanish claims because it was a wartime ally.)

Anyway, the history note notwithstanding, they can't "return" the California government to Mexico fast enough for my taste, and one can just imagine what's going to happen to pro-homosexual judges when the "federales" lock them up in Mexican jails!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

STATEMENT:"California Supreme Court to review whether judges can be Boy Scouts"

RESPONSE: PEOPLE REVIEW WHETHER THESE PEOPLE CAN BE SUPREME COURT JUDGES.

COMMENT: However, that would require a certain amount of strength. Apparently such strength does not exist.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How sad.

[tomahawk]

California is a cesspool.

[jla]

California judicial canons, controlled by the Supreme Court, already demand that judges divest themselves from groups that discriminate against women and minorities.

So am I to assume that there are groups in California that "discriminate against women & minorities" and that some of these groups are obviously known, as judges had to "divest themselves from" them?
I wonder what these groups are?

[jla]

Whenever you have time, I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
And I sure hope you can weather the Gray skies out there until you can elect a Conservative.

For Victory & Freedom!

[davisfh]

". . .they can't "return" the California government to Mexico fast enough for my taste,"

You've got my vote.

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Tacis]

It is, of course, perfectly OK for them to belong the the Califonia Association of Black Judges or the California Association of Gay Judges, whereas, it would be inappropriate for them to belong to the Califonia Association of White Judges or the Califonia Association of Straight Judges.

[yendu bwam]

bttt

[LadyDoc]

"Once California is returned to Mexico this sort of thing will not happen." Gee, why not return it to the Indians? They were there first

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[Unam Sanctam]

Yes, our wonderful Left proves once again that they do not believe in quaint little democratic notions like FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION. What fascists!

[ricpic]

HOMOS RULE!!

[aristeides]

If the California Supreme Court does this, can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit be far behind?

By the way, if the state courts can adopt these rules, I think it's just a matter of time before the state bar association does the same thing. I wonder if a lawyer disbarred because of membership in the Boy Scouts could bring suit.

[pepsionice]

While nobody is saying anything...I would assume that its a heck of alot broader on which organizations you can and can't be a member of. California may be helping itself depopulate. If I were a CEO and looking at the cost of operating in California...the cost of taxes...the political troubles...the earthquakes...I would just say adios and head off to AZ or Neveda. The state may find itself in 20 years...with a tremendous Latino population who basically run politics in the state. I think the whimpy politicans who are running the show now may be heading to a major shock when Latinos ride in and state the standard operating procedure in California. A shift in 1,000,000 Latino voters could really change the whole landscape in California.

[archy]

California is a cesspool

The problem is that those who made California into a cesspool are now pulling out and leaving others to live in the mess they left behind, while relocating to places such as the Pacific Northwest and Colorado, and are now trying to *reform* those places into copies of their California *Progressive Successes.*

And it's not easy to tell the decent people from California fleeing the cesspool from those salivating at the chance of turning other communities into something similar. And there appears to be no easy way to get those who did the damage in California to return to live with the effects of their folly.

-archy-/-

[jwalsh07]

Will California be the first state to completely ban religion?

No, the state religion of California is a sect of secular humanism which has moral relativism as their creed and and PC as their altar.

[BossLady]

If this kind of 'moral high-ground' is going to be taken with judges.....can we then move on to Congress? /sarcasm