Monday, January 24, 2011

Dale and the Right of Expressive Association

Is the Boy Scouts an "expressive association?" Is one of the purposes of the Boy Scouts to associate "in pursuit of ...social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends."

If so, will "forced inclusion" under public accommodation laws of openly homosexual persons such as Dale "affect in a significant way the ability of the group to express those views, and only those views [right not to speak], that it intends to express."

Would forced inclusion of Pat Robertson as a leader of a GLBT Youth Group interfere with the group's right of expressive association?

What about forced inclusion of David Duke as a leader of the NAACP Youth Group?

What about a radical feminist group that believes that all men oppress women and wishes to exclude a man from leadership?