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Boy Scouts open ranks to gay youth on Jan. 1
Associated Press ^ | Dec. 28, 2013 12:12 PM EST | David Crary and Nomaan Merchant

Posted on 12/28/2013 9:58:17 AM PST by Olog-hai

The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year’s Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications—ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades.

Yet despite their be-prepared approach, BSA leaders are rooting for the change to be a non-event, comparable to another New Year’s Day in 2000 when widespread fears of digital-clock chaos to start the new millennium proved unfounded.

“My hope is there will be the same effect this Jan. 1 as the Y2K scare,” said Brad Haddock, a BSA national executive board member who chairs the policy implementation committee. “It’s business as usual, nothing happens and we move forward.”

Some churches are dropping their sponsorship of Scout units because of the new policy and some families are switching to a new conservative alternative called Trail Life USA. But massive defections haven’t materialized and most major sponsors, including the Roman Catholic and Mormon churches, are maintaining ties. …

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KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; chickenhawks; cultureofcorruption; culturewar; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; manboylove; predators; rapingmychildhood; romney; sexualizingchildren
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1 posted on 12/28/2013 9:58:17 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Our troop already had a gay Scout. But now he’s not gay anymore so I don’t know what to do.


2 posted on 12/28/2013 9:59:12 AM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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> maybe his gay parent’s influence isn’t as strong as that of the den.


3 posted on 12/28/2013 10:01:49 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai

My daughters school had a kid who was so proud of how gay he was

Then he went to college and met a woman (he never actually dated a guy, ever)

Schools are trying to make kids THINK they are gay and giving encouragement. I think they even gave him a scholarship


4 posted on 12/28/2013 10:02:40 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Happy” trails to you...


5 posted on 12/28/2013 10:03:05 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh it will be a “non-event” all right when no scouts show up to enroll. That’s what they wanted of course.


6 posted on 12/28/2013 10:03:12 AM PST by jsanders2001
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And when their coffers dry up...

Well, we’ve seen THAT movie before.


7 posted on 12/28/2013 10:06:39 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Olog-hai
Some churches are dropping their sponsorship of Scout units because of the new policy... But massive defections haven’t materialized...

They will regret this... because the real target IS the churches. Watch what happens when some parent or leader tells a kid he is wrong to be gay... or that it's sinful. Not only will the parent/leader be sued, but the scout troop and the church that sponsors them will be as well. The right of association is no longer a defense, because it was relinquished by the BSA and ratified by sponsors by implication for NOT disassociating.
8 posted on 12/28/2013 10:09:49 AM PST by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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To: Olog-hai

get your kids OUT of BSA NOW!
(there are alternatives)


9 posted on 12/28/2013 10:10:32 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: unixfox

It’s already happening.

There was a sob-story out of Tampa last week about how the local council is $75,000 in the hole due to a drop-off in donations.

Breaks my heart—NOT!


10 posted on 12/28/2013 10:11:39 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: Olog-hai

Bye-bye incandescent bulbs and the Boy Scouts on Jan.1!


11 posted on 12/28/2013 10:18:04 AM PST by golf lover (goingf)
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Couldn't the gays just have started their own program and left BSA alone?

I'm sure the "Man-Boy Camping Club" would have been a real hit.

12 posted on 12/28/2013 10:18:41 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve thought that the idea of gay boy scouts doesn’t make sense. My view is that we’re talking about boys and young men, who are still growing and maturing. I will be called homophobic by some, but, I don’t see how young people can know for sure that they are gay at a young age.

And since scouting has nothing to do with sexuality anyway, I never thought this new policy made sense. It’s all about political correctness, it’s all about caving in to pressure groups who want to influence impressionable children.

If someone turns 18 and is an adult, and feels gay, they can head on down to The Castro and other such places and explore that to their hearts content. In my opinion, this subject has no place among children in the first place.


13 posted on 12/28/2013 10:24:11 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Beginning of the end for the BSA. Get in bed with the devil, and don’t be surprised when you get screwed. The homosexual-pedophile crowd has thoroughly infiltrated the scouts with the help and encouragement of the socialist democrats. Anyone who votes for the DNC are for pedophilia. Your children are NOT safe around anyone who votes democrat!


14 posted on 12/28/2013 10:24:38 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Olog-hai

if you want your son to grow up to be pajama boy... keep him in the fag scouts


15 posted on 12/28/2013 10:25:38 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Olog-hai

Since the infamous vote on this degeneration of the BSAs moral values earlier this year, our family will no longer support BSA in any way, shape of fashion.


16 posted on 12/28/2013 10:26:16 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Olog-hai

Damn those people who did this to scouting to eternal fire

That program helped young men grow and mature for over 100 years and the as holes on the board of directors rolled over and gave it all away


17 posted on 12/28/2013 10:28:12 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: AppyPappy

Don’t worry.. I’m sure a gay Scoutmaster will convert one of the other boys


18 posted on 12/28/2013 10:30:57 AM PST by digger48
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To: AppyPappy

Make an emergency call to GLAAD and GLSEN so they can dispatch their teams to come in and re-orient this confused lad.


19 posted on 12/28/2013 10:41:26 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s not important whether they know for sure at that age if they’re gay or not. What matters to the gay mafia is that they’re unsure; gay counselors are poised to pounce on these normal teenagers and close the deal. That’s the whole point of the gay move into youth activities.


20 posted on 12/28/2013 10:43:45 AM PST by DPMD
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