First Amendment protects two types of associative freedom
There are two types of freedom of association: the right to expressive association and the right to intimate association.
Additionally, the First Amendment protects a right to associate and a right not to associate together....
The court decisions regarding freedom of association are frequently used to continue discriminations and repression.
This story is just astounding to realize the degree in which hatred exists until today.
By Craig Sailor
By all standards, (click here) Sam Jones is an accomplished man. He grew up in public housing, raised by a Black single mother. He graduated from college, raised a family, retired from the Navy as a commander and now mentors youth at his Edgewood church. He also, at the age of 15, earned the Boy Scouts of America’s highest honor: Eagle Scout. Only 3-4 percent of all scouts achieve the rank. But for 60 years, Jones hid a mental wound inflicted by uncaring adults who let prejudice and stereotypes color their view of him. A few weeks after Jones earned his Eagle Scout rank in 1962, he visited the offices of his troop’s sponsor — a Rochester, New York-based community outreach nonprofit....
...Jones was 11-years-old when he saw images of something that forever altered his course in life: a forest....
