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The Latest Breaking News from the Boy Scouts

Pentagon threatens to pull military support from Boy Scouts unless they restore ‘core values’

In November, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed opposition to Scouting America’s ‘attack on boy-friendly spaces’

The Independent UK

Hegseth’s Pentagon ready to cut ties with the Boy Scouts over perceived wokeness and ‘attacking boy-friendly spaces’

Navy Secretary John Phelan reportedly said the proposal could be ‘too restrictive’

The Independent UK

Takeaways from AP's report about the importance of faith-based support for Scouting America

For the Boy Scouts of America — renamed Scouting America — recent years have been challenging

The Independent UK

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Despite past challenges, Scouting America stabilizes with support from faith-based units

For the Boy Scouts of America — recently renamed Scouting America — the past 12 years have been challenging

The Independent UK

Religious Hiring and Expressive Association

Does the First Amendment freedom of expressive association protect religious hiring?

Reason

Dean Treanor and Georgetown's First Amendment rights

Dean Treanor is right to assert Georgetown's First Amendment right to "teach DEI" in the face of Trump Administration threats.

Reason

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 2

Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

Reason

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Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 1

Maybe some universities can continue to do race-based affirmative action, even after SFFA v. Harvard.

Reason

How ‘muscular Christianity’ strove to bring men back to religion – and what it can teach us today

Most people recognise organisations such as the YMCA and the Boy Scouts, or events such as the Modern Olympic Games, summer camps and wilderness retreats.

The Conversation

Private Voluntary Bar Association Has First Amendment Right to Discriminate Based on Race, Sex, Sexual Orientation

Dec. 20's N.J. appellate court decision in Saadeh v. N.J. State Bar Ass'n (opinion by Judge Allison Accurso, joined by… The post Private Voluntary Bar Association Has First Amendment Right to Discriminate Based on Race, Sex, Sexual Orientation appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Two inveterate US clergy abusers preyed on same victim in New Orleans

Legal records show Lawrence Hecker and Gilbert Gauthe targeted the same altar boy in 1970s before later being convicted of other crimes

The Guardian - US

Boy Scouts sell off famed Norman Rockwell paintings and earn $3.7m to compensate sex abuse victims

The Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and auctioning off the art is a bid to survive the barrage of sexual abuse claims

The Independent UK

The Boy Scouts inspired Norman Rockwell. His works will now help pay abuse survivors

Works from the Boy Scouts of America's art collection, including some paintings by Norman Rockwell, will go up for auction to help compensate tens of thousands of people, mainly men, who were sexually abused while in scouting

The Independent UK

Family Sues Boy Scouts for $10 Million, Allege Employees Led to Child's Jet Ski Death

Parents of a 10-year-old boy are suing the Boy Scouts after they allege employees of the group were negligent and led to their son dying in a jet ski collision.

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TikTok sues federal government over free speech; U.S. pauses an Israel bomb shipment

TikTok is challenging a new law that would ban the app if it doesn't find a buyer, citing free speech supression. The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over fears they could be used in Rafah.

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US Supreme Court Allows .46B Boy Scouts Settlement

US Supreme Court decision allows .46 billion Boy Scouts sex abuse settlement to proceed, providing compensation for victims.

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"In five years the music industry will be viewed the same way as the Catholic Church or the Boy Scouts - a powerful force that also enabled and shielded sexual predators for decades": Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane sued for sexual assault

Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane is being sued for sexual assault

The Guardian - US

‘Vastly worse than other scandals’: new film explores sexual abuse in Boy Scouts

In a Netflix documentary, survivors of sexual abuse and the whistleblower who spoke out share harrowing testimonies

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Scouts Honor,’ a Netflix doc on troop leaders’ abuse of boys, inspires and infuriates

Film focuses on the Boy Scouts’ extensive files of abuse allegations that often were withheld from law enforcement.

The Guardian - US

He survived sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America. Now he wants justice

Ron Hunter was repeatedly assaulted and sex-trafficked as a child. At 63, he’s telling his story – to protect others and heal himself

Reason

Court Rejects Lawsuit by Sorority Members Against Sorority for Admitting Transgender Member

The sorority, the court held, had a First Amendment freedom of expressive association right to choose which students to admit (logic that suggests that a sorority would equally be free to exclude transgender members).

The Conversation

Boy Scouts of America can now create $2.4 billion fund to pay claims for Scouts who survived abuse – a bankruptcy expert explains what's next

On April 19, 2023, the Boy Scouts of America declared that it has exited its bankruptcy case after clearing one of the last legal hurdles in its way. Some insurance companies and sex abuse claimants objected to the Boy Scouts’ plan to pay claimants, but the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court…

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