Boy Scouts of America
The Supreme Court has declared the BSA a private organization and I think it is time we started treating it as such. The flaw in the Supreme Court’s judgment comes from the fact that it requires acts of Congress for us to do so.
The BSA operates under the auspices of a congressional charter. It has this charter because it is supposed to represent core values of America. At some point it stopped being a representative of America and became a private religious organization which reserves the right to discriminate. That indicates to me that they need to have that congressional charter repealed. The BSA changed it’s time for them to accept the consequences of that change.
Let’s be clear, the “Leave No Child Behind Act” of 2001 does not mean schools must treat the BSA like it does any other private religious organization such as bible clubs and Satanist organizations, they must be treated as a most favored club. Something to hold up as good. As a private religious organization it isn’t clear that treating them in that way is constitutional, much less desired. Like a I said before they BSA changed now they need to accept the consequences of that change.
The BSA is granted huge subsidies in the form of free and greatly reduces charges for space and services that needs to stop. They rent an army base for their annual gathering at a rate of $1 per year. This is a subsidy that needs to stop. They receive money from United Way and other organizations that claim that they don’t give money to organizations that discriminate. In giving money to the BSA they violate their own rules. This needs to stop.
The BSA choose to cast themselves as a private religious organization so that they could expel members with different beliefs and sexual orientations. They have won the right to do this, now they must pay all their own bills and pay the same prices as any other organization.