Subject:  Boy Scouts Allowed to Ban Gays
Author:  CourtTV9
Uploaded By:  CourtTV9
Date:  11/29/1995

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In this Nov. 3, 1995 ruling, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Patrick McGann Jr. uses biblical imagery in deciding that the state's anti-discrimination law does not prohibit the ouster of a gay assistant scoutmaster from the Boy Scouts of America. 

McGann notes that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were "destroyed by fire and brimstone rained down by the Lord because of the sexual depravity (active homosexuality) of their male inhabitants." He further states that "[i]t is unthinkable that in a society where there was universal governmental condemnation of the act of sodomy as a crime, that the [Boy Scouts] could or would tolerate active homosexuality if discovered in any of its members."