Discrmination

In 1984 there was the Supreme Court case of Roberts vs. U.S. Jaycees. The United States Jaycees was founded in 1920 in order to promote and foster the development of young men through civic and charitable works. The dilemma this group faced was that it restricted its voting membership to men only, and of the ages 18 to 35. Hence, women were discriminated upon because of this limit. The Human Rights Act of Minnesota denied discrimination on the grounds of race, color, creed, religion, disability, and natural origin, in public accommodations. However, more importantly it denied dis

On April 26, 2000, Dale, an adult who was an assistant scoutmaster of a New Jersey Boy Scout troop. He filed a suit against the Boy Scouts of America when his position was revoked. The Boy Scouts had learned that Dale was a homosexual and gay rights activist and this led to his dismissal. Dale argued that the Boy Scouts had violated the state statue prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in places of public accommodation. The Boy Scouts are a private, not-for-profit organization engaged in instilling its system of values in young people. It claimed that homosexual behavior is contradictory with those values. (Boy Scouts of America Handout, p. 1).

All in all the Supreme Court found the alternative program at the alternative school to be sub-par and stood their ground on the violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

In 1984 there was the Supreme Court case of United States vs. Virginia et al. The State of Virginia was faced with the issue of violating the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. This was because they were financing the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) as a single sex school. The institute excluded women from admission. (US vs. Virginia, in Voices of Diversity, p. 234).

crimination on the grounds of sex. (Roberts vs. US, in Voices of Diversity, p. 155).

In the first two cases the courts ruled that both organizations could not exclude women. In both cases neither the Jaycees nor the VMI were able to display that the inclusion of women into their organizations would impose any serious burdens on the male members’ freedom of expressive association. In the case ag

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