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Boy scouts cost Pentagon school access
by kos
Tue Nov 30th, 2004 at 19:16:39 CDT

Legal blowback from the Boy Scout's homophobia.
Universities may bar military recruiters from their campuses without risking the loss of federal money, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, found that educational institutions have a First Amendment right to keep military recruiters off their campuses to protest the Defense Department policy of excluding gays from military service.

The 2-to-1 decision relied in large part on a decision in 2000 by the United States Supreme Court to allow the Boy Scouts to exclude gay scoutmasters. Just as the Scouts have a First Amendment right to bar gays, the appeals court said, law schools may prohibit groups that they consider discriminatory.
That, my friends, is called irony. Or karmic payback. Or something.

Daily Kos :: Boy scouts cost Pentagon school access