Blacklisting Boy Scouts
Remember when Gov. Cuomo suggested last summer that certain people i.e., those who are pro-life, pro-Second Amendment or anti-gay have no place in the state of New York?
Well, California is putting the Cuomo vision into practice, and its not pretty.
The target was the Boy Scouts. In a unanimous ruling, all seven justices on the states Supreme Court accepted an amendment to the states judicial code that has the primary effect of preventing any California state judge from serving as an adult volunteer for the Scouts.
Though the Boy Scouts have lifted the prohibition on openly gay Scouts, they still dont let gay adults serve as, say, Scoutmasters. The court imposed its ban, it said, to preserve the fairness, impartiality, independence and honor of the judiciary.
Of course, it does nothing of the kind.
In the past decade, gay Americans have secured victories once thought impossible: same-sex marriage, the ability to serve openly in the military and so forth.
At least in cases like this one, alas, victory hasnt led to a live-and-let-live approach. To the contrary, these victories seem to be accompanied by an effort to tar anyone who might disagree with bigotry and drive them off the public square basically for holding the same position President Obama held just a few years ago.
We leave it to the courts to settle the larger First Amendment issues here. All we say is that America is better than this.
In the name of tolerance itself, shouldnt it be possible to uphold gay rights without having to crush a venerable American institution in the name of political correctness?
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Blacklisting Boy Scouts