Let's be clear: The Boy Scouts are within their rights to ban open nonbelievers as a private organization that has been backed for more than a century by the Mormon church. The Supreme Court upheld its right to limit membership as it sees fit. References to God and the necessity of being reverent are littered throughout Boy Scout literature, including new requirements added in 2015 that force Scouts earning a new rank to "tell how you have done your duty to God." In its own statement of religious principle, the organization "maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God."