{"id":1237,"date":"2004-12-02T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T19:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/02\/gay-scoutmasters-ban-backfires-on-military\/"},"modified":"2004-12-02T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T19:54:12","slug":"gay-scoutmasters-ban-backfires-on-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Gay Scoutmasters Ban Backfires on Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(I can&#8217;t resist stealing this post word-for-word from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tblog.com\/templates\/\/index.php?bid=sisterstalk&#038;static=350540\">SistersTalk<\/a>:)<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/30\/national\/30recruit.html?ex=1259470800&#038;en=0213a1c38a7d4817&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Colleges Can Bar Army Recruiters<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Looks like that decision allowing the Boy Scouts to ban gay Scoutmasters backfired on the military. Oops!<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">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.<\/div>\n<p>Poetic justice. Oh so priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I can&#8217;t resist stealing this post word-for-word from SistersTalk:) 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}