Background
The Sea Scouts is a nautical-themed youth organization that is part of Boy Scouts of America. The Boy Scouts of America has policies forbidding gays and atheists from participating in its organization, and these policies also apply to Sea Scouts units.
For over 50 years, the city of Berkeley, California had provided various Sea Scout units with free berths in the City's marina, the Berkeley Yacht Harbor, including the S.S.S. Farallon (sponsored by St. Michael's Church on Durant above University, no longer extant), the S.S.S. Northland, the S.S.S. St. Ambrose and the S.S.S. Sea Hawk.
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