Certainly adult supervision by Homosexuals in the boy scouts can be argued against easily.
But the argument not to let openly homosexual boys is not so easily won.
But let us remember that boys as old as 17 can be scouts.
I believe that is the age I am not certain.
Do you really believe a 17 year old openly homosexual scout should be camping with your 12 year old?
I sure don’t.
If the scouts allow open homosexual to remain in scouting they may as well close their doors.
Many of the kids are HINO. Claiming to be gay is just a way to get attention. My gay Scout became gay when his family life imploded. He is very popular with girls and I think he has succumbed to that now.
I’d rather know if they think they are gay. Ignorance is not bliss in that instance.
If they vote homos out, then they get a little bad publicity (who cares), and lose 10-15%enrollment.
(small price)
But, if they adopt Homos in at any level, a bigger percentage will leave say 20-60%???
I doubt the program would ever again be effective growth tool.
the purpose here , my opinion, is really just that....to destroy another institution founded on principles.....
I think that there are no queer 11 year olds. Therefore, there are no queers becoming scouts at 11
A boy is a scout until 18. At 18 he becomes an adult and an assistant scoutmaster. In most troops that doesn’t happen frequently because boys drop out around 15.
In large troops there is a cadre of older boys that are participants in various high adventure activities and programs. They are the troop backbone and leadership.It would be my thought that the few queer scouts would gravitate to one of these troops. That is, there would eventually be troops that are queer.
What do they mean by openly homosexual? Does a boy have to be marching with a sign that says “I’m here and I’m queer, get used to it!”? I don’t see how sexuality figures in that much to what the Boy Scouts do. As part of their pledge to be “morally straight” they are expected to be chaste/abstinent. I would venture further to say that includes not discussing sex in a crude or vulgar way—whether it be heterosexual or otherwise.
What is the policy now? Is it a variation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? If a boy doesn’t state anything about his sexuality is he not questioned about it?
Boy Scouts are supposed to be of high moral value and child that is into sex in the first place could be argued against and certainly any child into deviant sex shouldn’t be there.