Philly Can't Bar Boy Scouts From Public Buildings

Philadelphia, in a burst of moral superiority, kicked the Boy Scouts out of a city-owned building they had occupied for many years, all because of the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policies. The Scouts sued and the city lost:

A federal jury Wednesday decided that Philadelphia violated the Boy Scouts' First Amendment rights by using the organization's anti-gay policy as a reason to evict them from their city-owned offices near Logan Square.

"We can't be kicked out of the building or evicted and we don't have to pay any rent," Scouts' attorney William M. McSwain said after the unanimous verdict by a jury of six women and two men.

Moral superiority doesn't always equal legal superiority.