Judging the Boy Scouts of America: Gay Rights, Freedom of Association, and the Dale Case
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700619518 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Nice telling, well written" according to C. M. Carroll. Nice telling, well written. The major failing? This publishing series explicitly forgoes footnotes. This coupled with the author's extensive tendency to insert quotes is uncomfortable. As a reader who has read most of the cited source material, those quotes are familiar. However, a reader seeking additional reading on the subject is likely to be frustrated.. A thorough yet cogent review of the legal struggle for Seamus O'Mordha A thorough yet cogent review of the legal struggle for the rights of gays in the Boy Scouts of America.
. He is the author of many books including Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George Bush and To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, both published by Kansas. Hatfield Professor of Politics at Willamette University. Ellis is Mark O. Richard J
"With an appreciation for the realities of practice and advocacy, the book identifies Dale as part of a shift in Lambda Legal's impact litigation strategy as it moved from safer, more lucrative AIDS cases toward riskier, higher-profile work, and describes the challenges of litigating in a rapidly evolving legal and cultural environment."—Harvard Law Review
James Dale, a lawsuit that made its way through the courts over the course of a decade, culminating in 2000 with a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the Scouts. In addition to examining the legal issues at stake, including the effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the law of free association, Ellis also describes Dale's personal journey and its intersection with an evolving gay rights movement. What happens when the freedom of association collides with the equally cherished principle that every individual should be free from invidious discrimination? This is precisely the question posed in Boy Scouts of America v. Ellis tells the fascinating story of the Dale case, placing it in the context of legal principles and precedents, Scouts' policies, gay rights, and the “culture wars” in American politics.The story begins with James Dale, a nineteen-year old Eagle Scout and assistant scoutmaster in New Jersey, who came ou