| Issue: Freedom of Association |
Summary
Our basic freedom of association is under assault by organizations who ignore the First Amendment, and who think governments should have the power to tell citizens, in their private lives, who they should and shouldnât associate with.
Over the past decade, the Boy Scouts of America have been served with ACLU lawsuits, and have suffered financial cuts, public partnership cancellations, and facility evictions. They have been ridiculed in the media and castigated as bigots in once-friendly corners. Why? Because a very vocal minority objects to the words in the Boy Scout Oath "to do my duty to God", and to keep "morally straight." From the fight to save Scout camps in the parks of San Diego to the landmark case defending their right to determine their own membership standards at the U.S. Supreme Court; and from reckoning with political correctness in a Connecticut state charity to pursuing equal access for the Scouts in a Berkeley public marina, the ACRU has stood by the Boy Scouts and will continue to do so.
Center for the Freedom of Association
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