from the article
Do you know, Scoutmasters, what you have done?
This is a mistake in the article. The Scoutmaster did not vote, it was a group of roughly 1200 appointed delegates that were present, there were roughly 200 no show delegates. The vote was basically 60/40 in favor of accepting homosexuals.
In fact Scoutmaster were overwhelmingly against the change, with over 2/3 wanting to retain the policy. Remember, back in July 2012 BSA completed a 2 year study by a committee of 200 that the current policy was the best for Scouting. The BSA statement;
“After careful consideration of a resolution asking the Boy Scouts of America to reconsider its longstanding membership standards policy, today the organization affirmed its current policy, stating that it remains in the best interest of Scouting and that there will be no further action taken on the resolution,”
Immediately after that two members of the Boy Scouts’ executive board, James S. Turley, chairman and chief executive of Ernst & Young, and Randall L. Stephenson, chairman and chief executive of AT&T, have recently said they would push to end the exclusion policy......
Our belief is that change at any organization must come from within to be successful and sustainable.”
ALL Scoutmaster will now be forced to accept open and avowed homosexuals and can not dismiss them from Scouting due to homosexuality. Everyone keeps saying that homosexual leaders are not allowed in Scouting, that is true only for adults, they do not understand the Scouting method. Scouts is YOUTH led. That means you can have a 17 year old Senior patrol leader who is homosexual, leading the troop. A 11 year old Webelo who enters the troop looks up to that 17 year old and emulates/admires him. Do parents really want thay 17 year old as a model for their 11 year old.
Adult Homosexuals will be in Scouting very soon. By this decision the BSA has lost all legal standing from the Supreme Court ( Dale case) for protection. Soon after that there will be no membership standards, just like Scouting Canada and Brittian.
BSA committed suicide, Sadly it should die.
Scouting has left my family, we did not leave Scouting. As my son said “ the only way to uphold the Scout Oath and Scout Law is to no longer be a Scout”
signed
A former Scoutmaster
This is absolutely true.
(These are the thoughts of a one-time Boy Scout and the father of two Eagle Scouts.)
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-—for a 71 yr old man, you have learned little!!! I was in Scouting in the 50’s-—Life Scout, summer camps, Order of the Arrow, numerous community projects, built a scout cabin in the woods, LOTS of great memories. Thanks goes to committed leaders, parents, and a supportive church.
For 35 years I have been involved in “Friends of Scouting”-—the group that collects funds at the grass roots. The announcement to support deviance was not made until after the 2013 campaign to collect funds, which ended in late April. Over the those years, I have collected hundreds of thousand of dollars. I QUIT and most of my contacts have expressed a similar stance! NOW WHAT? Will ATT and some loser group of accountants step to the plate????
We, meaning I, voted on delegates that knew the gist of the council thought.
My council was opposed to the change.