Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Significance, Exclusion Of Gays, Atheists, And Agnostics, Boy Scouts In New Jersey, Impact

Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Significance

The California Supreme Court's decision that the Boy Scouts of America was not a business, allows the 5.8 million-member organization to deny admission to homosexuals, agnostics, and atheists in California. The decision clarified some of the legal parameters that separate a business from a private organization. Timothy Curran, now a television documentary producer in Miami, was a 19-year-old Eagle…

Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Further Readings

Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Exclusion Of Gays, Atheists, And Agnostics

On 5 January 1998, the California Supreme Court heard arguments in the case. Curran's American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer, Jon Davidson, argued that the BSA is subject to California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, religion, and sexual orientation. The BSA argued that it had the right to establish its own membership and leader…

Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Boy Scouts In New Jersey

In a related case in New Jersey, James Dale, a Boy Scout since the age of eight, who later became an Eagle Scout and assistant scoutmaster, sued after he was expelled by the Monmouth Council of the Boy Scouts in 1990 for being gay. In 1995 a New Jersey superior court upheld the refusal of the Boy Scouts to admit an avowed homosexual to a Scout leadership position. Dale alleged that his dismissal v…

Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Impact