Editor: U law student David Sundwall wrote in his Nov. 14 letter to the editor, “Let Boy Scouts Make Up Their Own Minds” that the Boy Scouts of America organization doesn’t judge. That is incorrect. They do judge all gay men and all atheists. Scout officials insist that gay men and atheists are immoral and unfit to lead, for no other reason than their sexual preference or religious beliefs. Six conservative Republicans who make up the majority on the Supreme Court have ruled that the Boy Scouts of America is a private religious organization and that it has the right to exclude anyone it wants. Since the Boy Scouts of America now considers itself to be a private religious organization, with the right to exclude gay men and atheists, should federal and local governments continue to subsidize the organization and allow it special access to proselytize young impressionable boys in public schools? Should the military continue to promote new recruits to a higher rank simply because they were Boy Scouts? Public institutions like the military and public schools serve everyone, not just the heterosexual religious elite the Boy Scouts cull and promote. The military and schools are supported by all taxpayers. The Boy Scouts may have won the right to exclude good men based solely on the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay and anti-atheist prejudices. But if the Boy Scouts of America is a private religious group, there is no longer a reason for taxpayers to pay part of its way. Jeff Harris Class of 1973