holding that the Unruh Act does not prohibit Boy Scouts from excluding plaintiffs from membership or participation because of plaintiffs’ refusal to participate in the religion-based elements of the scout program
How later courts described this case
- holding that the Unruh Act does not prohibit Boy Scouts from excluding plaintiffs from membership or participation because of plaintiffs’ refusal to participate in the religion-based elements of the scout program
- reciting that, in defending its right to exclude atheists, the Boy Scouts introduced “evidence intended to establish that requiring the inclusion of nonbelievers ... would interfere with the organization’s ef *1042 forts to convey its religious message”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
WERDEGAR, J.
I concur in the judgment. (See Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts (1998) 17 Cal.4th 670, 729-733 [ 72 Cal.Rptr.2d 410 , 952 P.2d 218 ] (conc. opn. of Werdegar, J.).)