[Kuksool]

The ACLU is a gang of legalistic terrorists. These ACLU Nazis want to make public lands or any public services off limits to the Boy Scouts just because they don't like the values of the Scouts. The ACLU is truly the enemy of America.

[RonF]

Remember that the ACLU doesn't bring lawsuits. They assist people who do. The ACLU would never have been involved if Rob Sherman hadn't first raised the issue and called them up. This lays at his doorstep, not the ACLU's.

The sad part is that Sherman would likely have won any suit. The courts would take the view that government funding of an organization that requires one to have a religious belief would violate the principle of the First Amendment's religous establishment clause.

Fortunately, that doesn't hold true for the other point of your post, the use of public lands. There's no way that the BSA will be restricted from the use of public facilities. If any such suit starts to make serious progress in the courts, Congress will pass a law similar to the amendment to the No Child Left Behind education bill that required all public schools to grant BSA equal access to their facilities.