Scouts

When commentator Nick Gillespie was an Eagle Scout, he was taught qualities of leadership, teamwork, and service to the community. He says that those values had remarkably very little to do with sexual orientation or belief in a supreme being. He's disturbed by yesterday's California Supreme Court ruling allowing the Boy Scouts of America to bar gays and atheists from membership—-but he's also disturbed that these policies are being hashed out in the courts. He thinks it's wrong to force any organization whose membership is voluntary to adopt a code of ethics—-and he thinks the Scouts should be judged in the court of public opinion.