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Liberals love to denounce bigotry, especially when they are exemplifying it. New Jersey's hyperliberal Supreme Court has found the Boy Scouts of America guilty of illegal discrimination, under the state's civil rights laws, for expelling a homosexual assistant scoutmaster named James Dale in 1990.
The Boy Scouts have always disapproved of homosexual and other deviant sexual behavior, and until recently it was taken for granted that this was their right as a private, religious organization.
As a Boy Scouts spokesman said: "The Boy Scouts of America is a private organization with the right to set our membership and leadership standards." Good point, but this isn't America anymore.
The court ruled that the Scouts are a "public accommodation" and therefore broke the law by showing Dale the door. Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz, speaking for a unanimous court, said Dale's dismissal was "based on little more than prejudice," adding: "The sad truth is that excluded groups and individuals have been prevented from full participation in the social, economic and political life of our country. The human price of this bigotry has been enormous."
In a concurring opinion, Justice Alan B. Handler added: "One particular stereotype that we renounce today is that homosexuals are inherently immoral. That myth is repudiated by decades of social science data that convincingly establish that being homosexual does not, in itself, derogate from one's ability to participate in and contribute responsibly and positively to society.
"In short, a lesbian and gay person, merely because he or she is a homosexual, is no more or less likely to be moral than a person who is heterosexual." That begs the question whether homosexual behavior itself is immoral.
The New Jersey court's opinions confirm that homosexual "rights" are injurious to our traditional rights. Orthodox Judaism and Christianity have always condemned homosexuality. But this ancient teaching, says the court, is nothing but "bigotry." Why? Because "social science data" have revealed that homosexuals may act "responsibly" and "positively."
So religious and traditional teachings as well as the freedoms of religion, speech and association must be subordinated to "social science data."
But no neutral social science presumes to pass judgment on moral and religious teachings. The whole method of social science is to suspend moral judgments in the study of phenomena.
The court, however, has ruled that the Boy Scouts must subordinate their own moral judgments to the court's supposedly "scientific" finding that homosexuals are morally entitled to forced association with people who would freely choose to avoid their company.
In an editorial, The New York Times chimed in: "The New Jersey Supreme Court has issued a powerful ruling against anti-gay bigotry in the Boy Scouts of America. No organization that recruits schoolchildren and says it is guided by honesty and respect for others has any right to ban homosexuals."
Would that include churches?
( TORCH EDITOR: You better believe it. Churches will be next. i.e. youth camp, Sunday school teachers, youth directors, etc. And this publication will one day have its permit canceled for printing truth like we are publishing here. We haven't seen anything yet.)
The court, says the Times, "showed wisdom in refusing to sanction bigotry by this important civic institution."
"As a group with an important role in the civic life of communities," the editorial continues, "(the Boy Scouts) cannot be allowed to operate outside laws designed to eradicate bigotry."
Cannot be allowed? Eradicate? This is the language of totalitarianism.
"The organization would serve its mission better by ending its ugly prejudice against homosexuals, and adding to its list of Boy Scout qualities the virtue of tolerance."
Well, well. So that's "tolerance." Neither the New Jersey court nor the tolerant Times argues from the purely legal merits of the case. Both are on a moral mission to force the Boy Scouts, on any pretext, to conform to the liberal agenda. And their flimsy arguments could just as well be applied to churches and synagogues, the foundations of our civic culture.
( TORCH EDITOR: You better believe it. It's coming!!! EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS!!!!)
Yes, this case involves
bigotry, but it isn't on the side of the Scouts.
What, after all, are the characteristics of bigotry? A venomous rejection of
any view contrary to one's own, a refusal even to entertain an opposing view
with detachment, a denial of the legitimacy of disagreement, a total contempt
for ancient tradition, and a militant eagerness to coerce those who disagree
such attitudes are the very essence of bigotry, liberal- style.
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