Boy Scouts under attack.

The Boy Scouts are under attack by the militant homosexual lobby in San Diego, California, as they are in dozens of other communities. On January 8, the City of San Diego agreed to set tie a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union over land the city leases to the Boy Scouts for free or a nominal charge. The city also agreed to pay the ACLU nearly $1 million in attorney fees and court costs. With the city dropping out of the fight, the Boy Scouts will now have to battle on alone against the ACLU, which insists that the Scouts must be evicted from the parks because they discriminate against atheists and homosexuals.

"Organizations such as the Scouts that hang on to these kinds of discriminatory membership policies are increasingly out of step with the world we live in and they're being passed by," declared Jordan Budd, legal director for the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. The ACLU received a big boost last year from leftist U.S. District Judge Napoleon Jones Jr., who ruled that the Scouts' lease in San Diego's Balboa Park violated the state and federal constitutions.

Parents who hope to preserve the Boy Scouts as an institution that helps train "morally straight" young men should urge their U.S. Representative and Senators to use the power of Congress, under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, to remove this matter from the jurisdiction of the federal courts.