From: jay.thal (jay.thal@TCS.WAP.ORG)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 07:42:12 CDT
As I noted yesterday, my three minutes gave me an incomplete glimpse of
the Dale procedings.
As one enters the Court you must set aside cameras, recorders,
palm-pilots, and even paper and pencil to make notes. So one must rely
on memory and snippits of perception conveyed by those who spent more
time.
Mike Bowman has provided the website where Supreme Court Decisions may
be accessed. The question is: where are there verbatim transcripts of
the oral arguements? Surely there are some, somewhere. I seem to
recall reading parts of the Brown v. Board of Education, oral arguments
etc. (?)
Justice Breyer, I read, is an Eagle Scout.
What is worrisome from the press reports - first from CNN and now in the
morning papers is that in responding to Justice O'Connor's query
"whether a heterosexual who supports homosexual rights would be
excluded.", BSA's attorney Davidson reportedly said that "advocating
such views to youths would merit expulsion." (The quotes are not the
individuals' but a quoting of the newsreport.)
This transcends any 3G issue. This means (to me) that if BSA management
"wins" that "our" (BSA) claims that promoting Citizenship is a basic
theme or objective is null and void. BSA could assert an ability to
circumscribed thought. Clearly this has become not BSA v. Gays, but BSA
v. BSA.
Would that mean that BSA's limit on the Unitarian's Religious Award,
given that Church's (UUA) policy of inclusion, could be expanded to
exclude the UUA as a chartered organization? What and who, then, will
be next?
YiWWSWd,
Jay
