Steve House wrote:

You may
not personally wish to have a black person as the scoutmaster of the local
scout troop, your opposition based solely on his race, but the law prevents
that irrational prejudice from impacting on the selection of the
scoutmaster.

The law provides no such thing. The Boy Scouts is a private organization and
*could* exclude blacks if they chose (which they do not choose to do).

George Patterson
Brute force has an elegance all its own.