Posted on 07/29/2015 9:44:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the Boy Scouts of America approve gay adult leaders, as they are expected to do late Monday (July 27), does that mean troops based at churches may end up in court if they ban gay Scoutmasters?
Scout officials predicted that would be “unlikely” in a document they released earlier this month to BSA members and leaders.
“We live in a litigious society, and frivolous lawsuits are threatened and filed every day,” reads the 14-page memo from the Boys Scouts’ law firm, Hughes Hubbard & Reed. “However, any lawsuit challenging the religious requirements in a Scouting unit chartered by a religious organization would be unlikely to succeed or even make much progress.”
The BSA’s 80-member national executive board is set to vote Monday (July 27) on whether to drop its ban on gay adult leaders. The outcome of the afternoon vote is expected Monday evening. Scout officials say religious groups — which make up some 70 percent of chartered organizations — would still have the option to exclude gays even if the policy is adopted.
R. Chip Turner, national chairman of the BSA Religious Relationships Committee, said he hopes the memo will calm concerns that leaders of religious chartered Scout units may have.
“There’s always the fear of the unknown,” he said.
But opponents of a BSA policy change say church-based troops that reject gay adult leaders could face legal risks, especially after the recent Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage is legal nationwide.
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Is the Pope Communist?
What matters right now is if the Mormons decide to abandon the Boy Scouts. That would be a huge hit to them, costing millions of dollars in revenue.
Of course the pro-pedophile leaders would be more than willing to lose the money and the scouts, as long as the remainder are still available for their use. And the pro-pedophile corporations behind this coup would also not care, though they would likely lash out against the Mormons.
Hopefully when and if the Mormons leave, they join the morality based alternative.
God won't be mocked forever, come quickly Lord Jesus!
Your liability insurance company will be having it’s say.
Given that the vast number of adult homosexuals were molested as children by an individual of their same sex, going forward any parent who allows their son to join the Boy Scouts should be brought up on charges of child endangerment.
IF BSA leaders undergo background check to weed out any who have had sexual relations with an underage boy, it could weed out many candidates of both sexes
The gaystapo will never stop. Any church supported troop needs to end their patronage immediately.
I think the Mormons will leave scouting - personal opinion. Their most recent statements have had a surprisingly negative tone. I don’t have a link but I read an article some time back that listed Mormon support for BSA to be something like 60 million dollars per year.
If a church hosts a troop in their building, and then a homosexual assualts a boy in the church during a Boy Scout event, you bet they are liable! They let the monster in the door!
This is a situation where churches need to say sorry, but don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Christ’s church IS the target.
Grown men being able to bugger boys on camping trips is just a bonus to them.
Even Salt Lake City passed a full queer "nondiscrimination" ordinance - including perverted cross-dresser "rights."
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