The Supreme Court Rulgs That Have Shaped Gay Rights Ameri | HISTORY

Contents:

• SUPREME COURT LOOKS AT IMPLITNS OF GAYS BOY SUTS
• BOY SUTS RENFIRM POLICY: NO GAYS ALLOWED
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• BEHD THE SCEN 2000 WHEN SUPREME COURT LIBERALS THOUGHT NAZI AND DRED STT REFERENC GAY RIGHTS DISSENT WERE DISTRACTG

SUPREME COURT LOOKS AT IMPLITNS OF GAYS BOY SUTS

But the summer of 1990, Dale received a letter rmg him that his membership had been revoked, simply bee he was gay. Dpe Dale’s 12-year relatnship wh the Boy Suts, the anizatn severed their ti wh him after learng of a news article that intified him as the -print of his universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance.

In a 5-4 cisn, the Supreme Court narrowly affirmed the Boy Suts right to ny membership to openly gay dividuals. On July 27, a full 25 years after they revoked Dale’s membership, the anizatn announced would extend membership to openly gay lears.

This after the Boy Suts’ move two years ago to lift s ban on membership to gay youth. The cisn was an important step, but bee left the ban place for openly gay lears, was an unsatisfyg one.

BOY SUTS RENFIRM POLICY: NO GAYS ALLOWED

More troublgly, though, the hatn also perpetuated the historic and homophobic perceptn of gay adults as promiscuo dividuals wh nefar tentns. The recent cisn to fally end the ban on openly gay lears should, therefore, be celebrated. Although is now possible for gay lears to serve openly the Boys Suts of Ameri, dog so is still jt that: a possibily, not a guarantee.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

The Boy Suts has lifted s ban on openly gay lears and employe, but has allowed relig chartered anizatns, which operate more than 70 percent of the Boy Suts Sutg uns, “to e relig beliefs as creria for selectg adult lears, cludg matters of sexualy, ” acrdg to their announcement.

The Boy Suts’ exemptns thereby mata rtrictns on pable and willg gay lears. WASHINGTON — The qutn before the Supreme Court today was whether the Boy Suts have a nstutnal right to exclu gay members, but the Jtic did not seem particularly terted eher Boy Sut policy or the future of gay rights, The New York Tim reported. If the Boy Suts nnot exclu gays, n they still exclu girls, the Jtic wanted to know.

BEHD THE SCEN 2000 WHEN SUPREME COURT LIBERALS THOUGHT NAZI AND DRED STT REFERENC GAY RIGHTS DISSENT WERE DISTRACTG

Would a Jewish social group be forced to accept non-Jewish members, or a gay anizatn to clu heterosexuals? The Tim reported that the qutns me thick and fast for the lawyers reprentg the Boy Suts of Ameri and Jam Dale, who was an Eagle Sut assistant sutmaster when his troop New Jersey expelled him 10 years ago, after learng om a newspaper article that he is gay.

The Boy Suts “specifilly forbid membership to homosexuals, ” he was told. Dale, who as the article reported was -print of a stunt gay rights anizatn at Rutgers Universy, sued unr New Jersey’s anti-discrimatn law, which clus protectn for sexual orientatn. “Beg openly homosexual munit the ncept that this is O.