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To: JerriBlank
It’s not just the masters... it’s the boys as well. There ARE gay scouts.

Only those who haven't been identified. Following the Dale decision, the Boy Scouts applauded the Court's ruling that allowed them to set standards for leaders and membership. Homosexuals and atheists aren't welcome in either.

135 posted on 11/20/2007 9:04:14 AM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Homosexuals and atheists aren't welcome in either.

Like anything else, it depends on who you're dealing with. The organization is made up of members. Some follow the rules, some won't.

137 posted on 11/20/2007 9:16:56 AM PST by JerriBlank
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To: Non-Sequitur
Only those who haven't been identified. Following the Dale decision, the Boy Scouts applauded the Court's ruling that allowed them to set standards for leaders and membership. Homosexuals and atheists aren't welcome in either.

If I might modify your answer above a little bit.

Where BSA and its Chartered units draw the line is in selecting leaders. A typical adult Scouter participating in a troop or committee is not asked for a test oath or quizzed about issues like homosexuality.

Likewise, ten year old boys when preparing to join aren't asked for "sexual orientation" because rightly children and sdolescents are thought not to form such things in that age group.

In fact, I imagine that a healthy thing would be to say that such is not a decision, but instead what we would call in politics a "push poll". Asking presupposes that individuals are supposed to "make a selection" at some point. Instead, the selection is made at large for a two sex species and disorder (or whatever term people want to use) allows patterning in other manners in a small minority.

Scouts uses a program of "Two Deep Leadership" so that adult scouters are always at least two in number in dealing with scouts. The thought being that if one adult has deviencies, the presence of the other precludes that first adult from exercising such actions. This works well for any sort of wrong choice that an adult might involve youth in if left by themselves.

139 posted on 11/20/2007 9:23:53 AM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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