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First Amendment Rights

The first amendment of the Constitution is one of the most fundamental and essential appendages to the C onstitution that statesmen could ever have made. It basically provides the way and means for any citizen of the United States to speak freely, worship freely, assemble with whomever they want, and complain to the government. One of the most important of those freedoms however, is the right of association. Association protects the rights of persons to enter into relationships with one another unhampered by intrusive governmental regulation. More specifically expressive association protects the right to associate with others in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends. The right to associate, being derived from the provisions of free speech and assembly, is fundamental to all private associations so that they might have the right to their own standards for membership and leadership.

The Boy Scouts of America has been a private organization with the mission and chartered purpose of providing character-building experiences for young people since its founding in 1910. The organization’s Oath states, “On my honor I will do my be


It is the position of the Boy Scouts of America that, as stated by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, “The Boy Scouts asserts that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the values it seeks to instill. [Requiring the Scouts to accept homosexual scoutmasters] would significantly burden the organization\'s right to oppose or disfavor homosexual conduct.” (Religioustolerance.org) So by that demarcation the scouts are not discriminating against homosexuals. Discrimination, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the action of discriminating; distinguishing, making or constituting a distinction, or affording a ground for distinction. The Boy Scouts of America has not once tried to prove any kind of distinction. They purely exclude homosexuals based on their beliefs and values not because they are homosexual. A very little know fact is that the Boy Scouts of America also do not allow membership to atheists or agnostics because of the factors of reverence and religion in the scouting organization. When assimilating this issue with the issue of excluding homosexual leaders, the Boy Scouts do not exclude atheists or agnostics because they’re atheist or agnostic it’s because their beliefs and values do not match that of the organization of Scouting.

The right of association is powered by choice, the most sacred of all human abilities. The creator of the universe bestows choice on mankind. And the choice to associate with those that believe the same as you do and have the same morals and values as you do is a God-given right, unden

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