Liberals in California target judges with Boy Scout
ties
By Gina Miller
RenewAmerica.com
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Give them an inch, and they'll demand a mile.
We warned you that the terrible decision by the
Boy Scouts of America to allow openly homosexual
boys into membership would only lead to further
attacks against the organization by the militant
homosexual Left. We were right, and the target is
now judges who have ties to the Scouts.
In California, the Supreme Court Advisory Committee
on the Code of Judicial Ethics has proposed amending
the Code to ban judges who participate in, or are
members of, non-profit youth organizations that
"discriminate" on the basis of sexual orientation –
that is, the Boy Scouts of America. The organization
is specifically named in the proposal, because it
still does not allow open homosexuals to be troop
leaders. This proposal was open for public comments
until April 15th, so I'm a little late to the
twisted party, but this is still something you
should know.
From the
nine-page proposal:
Of the 47 states that bar membership in
organizations that discriminate on the basis of
certain enumerated classes, 22 (including
California) list sexual orientation as one of the
protected classes. California is, however, the only
state whose code contains a prohibition against
membership in organizations that discriminate on the
basis of sexual orientation that also has an
exception for membership in nonprofit youth
organizations. The [American Bar Association] Model
Code of Judicial Conduct, upon which much of the
California code is based, also contains no such
exception.
California's status as the only state with an ethics
code that prohibits membership in organizations that
discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation but
has an exception for nonprofit youth organizations,
combined with recent developments in the law
relating to recognition of same-sex relationships,
is anomalous and inconsistent with other principles
in the canons. In the committee's view, eliminating
the exception would promote the integrity of the
judiciary.
The committee analyzed the exception in the context
of a judge being a member of the [Boy Scouts of
America (BSA)]. Until recently, the official policy
of the BSA read: "While the [BSA] does not
proactively inquire about the sexual orientation of
employees, volunteers or members, we do not grant
membership to individuals who are open or avowed
homosexuals or who engage in behavior that would
become a distraction to the mission of the BSA." In
May 2013, after a national council meeting, the BSA
announced its decision to permit openly gay boys to
participate as scouts until age 18, but to continue
its bar against gay and lesbian adults as troop
leaders or in other leadership positions. Because
the BSA continues to discriminate on the basis of
sexual orientation, the committee agreed that
eliminating the exception, thereby prohibiting
judges from being members of or playing a leadership
role in the BSA, would enhance public confidence in
the impartiality of the judiciary.
Only in a world run on lies would it be considered
"ethical" to shun those who uphold right, moral
standards. Only in a nation polluted by degeneracy
would we see celebrations of abominable sin and the
punishment of those who oppose it. This is insanity.
For this "ethics" committee to exclude from the
California judiciary people who are affiliated with
an organization that has historically worked to help
boys grow into good, moral citizens is simply
disgusting.
This has nothing to do with enhancing "public
confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary,"
but has everything to do with the radical homosexual
movement's war against truth, reason, morality, and
fundamentally, against God. The Left cares not a
whit for judicial impartiality, as evidenced by so
many Marxist-minded activists who routinely make
unconstitutional law from the bench. The Left didn't
give a rip about impartiality when a
lawless federal judge, a homosexual, did not
recuse himself from California's Proposition 8 case,
in which he overturned the will of over 7 million
Californians who had lawfully amended the state's
constitution to correctly define marriage. No, the
Left only cares about "bias" when it goes against
its own anti-Christian, anti-freedom,
unconstitutional schemes.
We can warn you of the danger to our freedoms posed
by the militant homosexual movement till the cows
come home, but unless millions of Americans are
willing to stand forcefully and vocally against this
evil agenda, it will continue to succeed in crushing
freedom under its Godless boot.
Here's another little gem from that judicial
"ethics" proposal that you'll just love:
The committee also proposes amending the
commentary following canon 2C. Under the committee's
proposal, the commentary would retain the language
noting that membership in religious organizations is
constitutionally protected, but references to
military and nonprofit youth organizations would be
deleted.
The existing penultimate sentence refers to
"individual rights of intimate association and free
expression." The committee proposes that this
sentence be deleted; the code prohibits judges from
being associated with any organization if that
association would affect the integrity or
impartiality of the judiciary. Because this sentence
was inserted to apply to nonprofit youth
organizations, the committee proposes that it be
deleted.
God-given, First Amendment-protected, unalienable
rights? Not for judges in California, if this
proposal is adopted. This is warped beyond belief. A
judge being involved with the Boy Scouts, in the
view of the atrophied minds of this committee, would
"affect the integrity and impartiality of the
judiciary"? We are in mighty big trouble, folks.
Don't imagine for a minute that these people won't
continue their scorched-earth campaign against
freedom until they manage to outlaw any opposition
to the devilish goals of the radical homosexual
movement. Unless they are stopped, they will not
stand for anything less than making any expression
of Christianity illegal, because that's where this
leads. Now, they have their crosshairs set on judges
to dictate their associations. I know it's an
overused term, but this is horribly Orwellian, and
it must be stopped.