Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Error!
It's a bad day.
Unfortunately, less attention has been given to the merits of the state Supreme Court's opinion and more to Berkeley's image. Take the Reuters headline, "Calif. court backs liberal city over Boy Scouts." Aside from the fact that this is inaccurate-the case involved the Sea Scouts, not the Boy Scouts-this issue was ultimately in the state's hands, not the city's.
Wrong on both counts. The reason the Sea Scouts were losing their subsidy was not because they discriminate, but because they were associated with the Boy Scouts, which discriminate. So the case did involve Berkeley attacking the Boy Scouts, with the Sea Scouts just being the battering ram. The issue was not ultimately in the state's hands. The court was a state court, but the sides of the debate were the Sea Scouts and the city of Berkeley. Berkeley didn't need to throw a fit, and had they left it alone, no state inspectors would come and demand that action be taken.
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