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But the summer of 1990, Dale received a letter rmg him that his membership had been revoked, simply bee he was gay.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. 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.

BOY SUTS RENFIRM POLICY: NO GAYS ALLOWED

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 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.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

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.

July 17, 2012— -- The Boy Suts of Ameri today reaffirmed s policy to exclu gays om jog or beg lears, disappotg gay rights groups. A special mtee of Sut executiv and adult volunteers formed 2010 nclud unanimoly that the anti-gay policy was the "absolute bt" for the 112-year-old anizatn, natnal spokman Deron Smh, told The Associated said reprented "a diversy of perspectiv and opns, " but did not name the members of that mtee.

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

"I believe the vast majory of Sut fai do not support their policy on excludg gays, and if that is the se, they picked an awfully tertg way of affirmg that their report, " Wahls said. Supreme Court sid wh the Boy Suts of Ameri, lg 5-4 that the anizatn was exempt om state laws that bar anti-gay urt overturned a lg by the New Jersey Supreme Court to require a troop to readm a longtime gay sutmaster who had been Girl Suts of Ameri has had a diversy policy and non-discrimatn clse sce Print Herndon Graddick exprsed dismay over the cisn. Ary allowg gay Amerins to participate, the Boy Suts of Ameri need to fd a way to treat all children and their parents fairly, " said Graddick a prepared statement.

Gay-rights group, lled the Suts' cisn "a missed opportuny of lossal proportns. The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat (SCOTUS) was tablished 1789, but didn't le on a se that directly fluenced gay rights until nearly 170 years later. Sce then, the hight feral urt the untry has weighed on about a dozen other LGBTQ rights-related s, which have had powerful impacts on the gay rights movement and the liv of LGBTQ Supreme Court's First Gay Rights CaseSCOTUS's first gay rights se foced on the First Amendment—specifilly, how the rights of ee speech and prs apply to homosexual ntent.