I agree that any organization that doesn't receive any public funds should be able to set their own membership rules. But I also think that being a tax free charitble organization means they are receiving public funds. Donations to the Boy Scouts should not be tax-exempt, and the organization should be paying taxes on their income. The same is true of churches that don't allow practicing homosexuals to join. And churches that don't allow women to be priests, for that matter. The Boy Scouts should be banned from any access to any public school. They should be castigated from pulpits everywhere. The only reason people are able to get away with being bigoted toward homosexuals is because they are not yet legally required to not be.

John Peekstok