Here's a paragraph from the opinion that caught my interest:
|In the late 1930s, Berkeley began giving BSA one or more free berths at
|its marina for use by the Sea Scouts, after the Mount Diablo Council permitted
|Berkeley to quarry rock from BSA property to build the marina and breakwater.
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:49:06 -0500
Thanks again for the thoughtful response
Professor Lederman has brought up these cases where a religious organization
(usually the Boy Scouts) is given preferential access to a government forum
or other government benefit -- Evans, Winkler, Barnes-Wallace, etc. And I
think most will agree that the government cannot generally prefer
-- but it's not clear.
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Here's the opinion, unanimously rejecting the
BSA-affiliated group's constitutional claims:
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S112621.PDF
It turns out this does raise exactly Eugene's
question -- All nonprofit community services organizations get free berths at
the marina if
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Subject: RE: Boy Scouts, Expressive Association, Government Benefits,
Religious Discrimination, Etc.
Professor Lederman has brought up these cases where a religious
organization
(usually the Boy Scouts) is given preferential access to a government
forum
or other government benefit
, Expressive Association, Government
Benefits,Religious Discrimination, Etc.
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:34:27 -0500
Thanks, Christopher, for that thoughtful response.
1. The difficult Establishment Clause issue, as I see it, is not whether
the BSA (or any other recipient of special benefits
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:35:06 -0800
I think there are constitutional problems with government providing
religious organizations preferential access
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This is all going to
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This is all going to end up mimicking the charitable-choice debates. It
doesn't matter
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