WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court should reverse lower-court decisions that struck down a ban on partial-birth abortion and rejected the Boy Scouts of America’s prohibition against homosexual leaders, according to friend-of-the-court briefs signed onto by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC).
The briefs were filed in cases that will be argued before the high court on successive days in late April.
In Stenberg vs. Carhart, a brief written by the U.S. Catholic Conference and joined in by the ERLC contends the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in striking down Nebraska’s ban on partial-birth abortion, a gruesome procedure performed on a nearly totally developed baby. The oral arguments in the case will be April 25.
In Boy Scouts of America vs. Dale, a brief authored by the American Center for Law and Justice and signed onto by the ERLC argues the New Jersey Supreme Court violated the First Amendment rights of the Boy Scours by ruling the organization could not restrict a homosexual from being troop leader. The case will be argued April 26.
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