Whoa! 9th Circuit Court rules in favor of Boy Scouts

[Baltimatt]

Overturned ruling regarding the Scouts' leasing of government land.

Even though the Boy Scouts of America bars atheists and gays, the city of San Diego is allowed to lease the group public property at nominal rates without running afoul of the state and federal constitutions, a federal appeals court decided Thursday. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the city’s practice of leasing valuable property to the Boy Scouts for nominal rent in exchange for the group’s commitment to undertake expensive renovations and to manage the property.

The unanimous ruling, which overturned a district court decision, said the city did not discriminate in its rental policies or bear any financial hardship under the terms of its leases to the Boy Scouts. The decision stemmed from a lawsuit brought by a lesbian couple and an agnostic couple, who said the leases of public land to groups that discriminate violated both the state and federal constitutions.

It this the same liberal, most overruled 9th Circuit Court I read about on these pages?

[regularguy]

I don't know what the California Constitution says about it, but there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution that would prohibit a city from entering into a financial transaction with a private group that has discriminatory policies. I can't imagine how the trial court ruled otherwise. I think the Boy Scouts are petty, mean-spirited and wrongheaded, but this was a stupid lawsuit.

[skeemer]

Whoa!

[Smokey 1]

I don't know what the California Constitution says about it, but there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution that would prohibit a city from entering into a financial transaction with a private group that has discriminatory policies. I can't imagine how the trial court ruled otherwise. I think the Boy Scouts are petty, mean-spirited and wrongheaded, but this was a stupid lawsuit.

How are they "petty, mean spirited and wrongheaded"?

[Baltimatt]

Smokey--

How about firing Cub Scout leader Jennifer Tyrrell for being a lesbian?

[Smokey 1]

Smokey--

How about firing Cub Scout leader Jennifer Tyrrell for being a lesbian?

That may be wrong-headed but not mean and petty.

[SoSad]

Overturned ruling regarding the Scouts' leasing of government land.



It this the same liberal, most overruled 9th Circuit Court I read about on these pages?

The only thing you can depend upon with regard to the 9th Circuit Court is them being undependable. IMO, there is often no rhyme or reason for their decisions.

The 9th Circuit Court also put on hold a law that would dicipline therapists that practice conversion therapy.

[Baltimatt]

That may be wrong-headed but not mean and petty.

Well, she was embraced by her local pack, but when the national organization got wind of it, she was gone. And yes, it has that right.

Meanwhile, councils in New England are walking a fine line in opposition to the national policy.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/blog..._troops_f.html

Christensen is walking a fine line. When the national office of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced this past July — less than a year after the US military successfully repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell — that it would reaffirm its longstanding policy that prohibits the inclusion of openly gay scouts and scout leaders, a policy first officially articulated in 1991, councils and council leaders across the United States had to decide how to respond.

In New England, where LGBT rights are mainstream, many local councils — which oversee local troops, like Brookline’s Troop 6 — are wrestling with the policy. Six area Boy Scout groups are listed as “supporting councils” on the website of Scouts for Equality, an organization that advocates for LGBT inclusion in the BSA.