Gay Men to Lead Boy Scouts: Gates’ Failure to Render Genuine Leadership

30 Unfortunately, many of the “straight” scout leaders are closet cases.

"Elvis has left the building." You are way off with this statement.

I wouldn’t let my son go on a camping trip with the scouts anyway. They need to require leaders have their own child in the program. Anyone wanting to take little boys on camping trips when their son isn’t one of them is probably a creep, whether they are openly homo or not.

I understand the thought process. I 1st encountered this kind of troglodyte thinking around 1987. I put 32 years as a volunteer in the program as a straight, single man. Never saw a problem involving pedophilia/homosexuality, though I had certainly read a lot about those problems happening elsewhere. I knew many straight, single men involved in Scouting before they married and quite a few who never married.

If you accept Pareto's Principle, then 80% of the volunteer leadership is performed by 20% of the boys' parents (with some older veteran volunteers whose children have aged out) with the additional 20% support coming from those single, straight adult males. If we as a society move in the direction you believe we should, then there will be fewer volunteers. Young, straight men are, on average, delaying marriage these days. Troops are already under suspicion by single mom households where the mom has had bad experiences with men. Conservative thinkers abhor the zero tolerance policies that the public schools have adopted on "all things pertaining to weapons" and hate speech. It would be a terrible shame, and a loss, should the powers that be at the national level choose to exclude single, straight men from BSA membership. Now, some religious denominations which charter (sponsor) BSA units may reach that point. They already have the authority to screen their adult volunteer leadership. Should the national leadership of BSA adopt "the local option" whereby the different religious denominations can accept/deny open homosexual males as members, then, in an even more extreme case, single, straight men could eventually face the same fate in this age of hysteria.

Wasn’t Steven Spielberg on the board of the Boy Scouts too?

Well, corporate sources of donations will be done soon if they aren’t already. Church fundraising activities will be Boycotted or simply not permitted in public places for BSA or Trail Life. At this point, if the families want to meet or find some other means, it’s worth trying.

62 Wasn’t Steven Spielberg on the board of the Boy Scouts too?

He resigned in 2000 after the SCOTUS Dale vs. BSA case found BSA was a private organization and could set its own membership rules which included excluding open homosexuals.