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Boy Scouts: We need more time for decision on gay membership (They tabled the motion)
NBC News ^ | February 6, 2013 | Miranda Leitsinger

Posted on 02/06/2013 8:10:52 AM PST by Zakeet

The Boy Scouts of America said Wednesday it needed "more time for a deliberate review" of its policy banning gay Scouts and leaders, delaying a final decision on the controversial membership guidelines that have dogged the private youth organization in recent years.

"In the past two weeks, Scouting has received an outpouring of feedback from the American public. It reinforces how deeply people care about Scouting and how passionate they are about the organization," the organization said in a statement. "After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy."

The executive board has directed its committees to further engage representatives of Scouting’s membership and take in their perspectives and concerns as officers work toward a resolution on membership standards. The roughly 1,400 voting members of the national council will take action on the resolution at the national meeting in May 2013, the organization said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; gays; homosexualagenda
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The Boy Scouts need more time and committee input to define their timeless values

1 posted on 02/06/2013 8:10:57 AM PST by Zakeet
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2 posted on 02/06/2013 8:13:07 AM PST by baddog 219
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Wow. THIS is bad.

Now they’ve got one foot in the boat and one on the dock, and the Gay Mafia is going to thrash them endlessly about the head and neck.

Far better to just NEVER EVER OPEN THE DOOR A CRACK when dealing with these people. How strategically stupid of the BSOA.


3 posted on 02/06/2013 8:13:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Zakeet

Here is the link to the BSA official statement.

http://www.scouting.org/executiveboarddecision.aspx


4 posted on 02/06/2013 8:14:28 AM PST by mikemoose (Pray for the Unborn)
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To: Zakeet

The fact that this is even being discussed should cause them to shed members


5 posted on 02/06/2013 8:15:27 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Zakeet

Who would ever have thought that the BSA would consider voting on leadership from a group of degenerates with such a hideous and obvious record of sex-offenses to openly enter such a fine organization for young boys? What a preposterous and ignorant notion.


6 posted on 02/06/2013 8:16:28 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Zakeet

The very fact that they are too chicken-bleep to make a complete and moral stand against faggotry in their organization speaks volumes.

This on-the-fence wavering is BS.


7 posted on 02/06/2013 8:17:10 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Wow. THIS is bad.

yes it is! how could they consider this? do they not know who makes up their organization?

8 posted on 02/06/2013 8:19:36 AM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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"We need more time for decision on gay membership"

It's really a no-brainer (and it is YOUR club) so, take your time!

9 posted on 02/06/2013 8:19:54 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Well, BSA, you have to choose:

1) An organization to provide a Christian-based ethical and moral framework to support boys as they become men

2) A camping club where anything goes

If you want to continue to exist as 1) this should stay “tabled” forever.


10 posted on 02/06/2013 8:20:00 AM PST by freedumb2003 (I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
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To: Zakeet

Surely, they know that if they admit gays they’re finished?

Why are some things blatantly obvious to some but not to others?


11 posted on 02/06/2013 8:20:56 AM PST by ryan71
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I will take that as victory at least for a while.

They are in a lose-lose here, and I would stop donating if they changed, as much as I would hate that.

As long as they dont change I dont care how they soft soap it in public.


12 posted on 02/06/2013 8:21:47 AM PST by sickoflibs (Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
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To: Zakeet

It means they don’t want to change the rules but are afraid of the fang-tooth raging man-hating feminazis.

Expect the uglies to attack them anyway.


13 posted on 02/06/2013 8:22:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech - a myth about a long-gone country.)
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