Understood.
there is a difference between “gay” boys in scouts, and
scouts as an organization openly approving or saying that “gay” behavior is just fine in scouting.
“gay” boys (to the extent any 12 or 13 year old kid knows he is really “gay?”) will always be in scouts..and that’s just fine with me.... but the organization as an organization... should still uphold basic moral standards ... and let’s remember that many parents put their boys into scouting to get some help in raising them properly.... (scouting can be particularly helpful for kids lacking a father at home for any reason, but scouting can help any boy grow up right).
I personally do not object at all to a “gay” boy in scouts. I do object to the official “teaching magisterium” of Boy Scouts of America telling the boys that “gay” conduct is fine, proper, acceptable, or wonderful with Scouting. Having “gay” boys in the organization and treating them equally, is right. Telling the boys that “gay” behavior is right, is terribly wrong for an “in loco parentis” mentoring organization that is supposed to be helping boys develop, mature, grow up
Very well said. We are seeing an open endorsement of homosexuality here. That is far different than the tolerance of young men who might happen to be homosexual.