Because, InterVarsity refused to allow a lesbian student to assume a position of leadership. A ruling against the Scouts in the case being heard today will open the door for governments across the country to treat private groups like Tufts' totalitarians treated the members of InterVarsity. And just this week the Vermont legislature is giving sanction to what amounts to homosexual marriage, condoning benefits for same-sex partners. The consequences will be devastating to the family, which every civilization has embraced as part of the natural order. But it clearly is not.
Societies confer benefits on certain groups because they provide a contribution to the public good.
The Boy Scouts do. But to say that because you're not part of a group to which society provides such benefits, that this is somehow discrimination, is nonsense, and that's a point Christians need to make. Reprinted with the permission of Prison Fellowship Ministries, P.O. Box 17500, Washington D.C., 20041-0500. All Rights Reserved. May not be reproduced or distributed without the express written permission of Prison Fellowship Ministries.