COURT RULES BOY SCOUTS CAN'T BAN GAYS GROUP'S LAWYER VOWS APPEAL OF N.J. DECISION.(News) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: August 5, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For the first time, a state's highest court has ruled that the Boy Scouts of America's ban on homosexuals is illegal.

New Jersey's Supreme Court said yesterday that because the Boy Scouts are a ``place of public accommodation,'' they fall under the state's anti-discrimination law even though it is a private organization.

The ruling could force the issue into the U.S. Supreme Court, which in a past decision refused to review another state's ruling that upheld ...