Is the BSA Being as Bad as Racists? Judging the BSA's Antigay Policy
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
7-1-2009
Abstract
This chapter argues that the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) policy is, in pertinent ways, the moral equivalent of racial discrimination. It begins by identifying what is essentially morally malignant about racism: the stigmatizing of people as intrinsically inferior. Next, it demonstrates that some, but not all, objections to homosexuality do the same thing and are similarly malignant. Finally, it shows that the BSA's policy falls within this malign category of antigay positions.
Keywords
Boy Scouts of America, racial discrimination, discriminatory policy, antigay, racism
Publication Title
A Right to Discriminate? How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association
Repository Citation
Wolff, Tobias and Koppelman, Andrew, "Is the BSA Being as Bad as Racists? Judging the BSA's Antigay Policy" (2009). Book Chapters. 176.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_chapters/176
https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300121278.003.0005
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300121278.003.0005