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Boy Scouts Executive Committee Unanimously Votes To End Gay Leadership Ban
BuzzFeed ^ | 07/13/2015 | Chris Geidner

Posted on 07/13/2015 1:34:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON — A key leadership panel of the Boy Scouts of America voted unanimously last week to end the ban on gay leaders in scouting, the organization told local leaders on Monday.

The move — raised as a necessary step by the organization’s head in May — came from the executive committee of the Boy Scouts on July 10. A vote of the full executive board is scheduled for July 27, at which point the change is immediately effective.

The resolution passed by the committee does not require councils or troops to allow out gay leaders, but lifts the prior ban on such leaders. Specifically, the resolution “affirms the right of each chartering organization to reach its own religious and moral conclusions about the specific meaning and application of” the organization’s values.

At the Boy Scouts national annual meeting in May, the group’s president, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, took on the issue directly and at length. “I must speak as plainly and bluntly to you as I spoke to presidents when I was director of the CIA and secretary of defense,” he said in part. “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained.”

In a statement, Zach Wahls, the executive director of Scouts for Equality, said, “Today’s announcement hopefully marks the beginning of the end of the Boy Scouts of America’s decades-old ban on gay leaders and parents like my two moms.”

He continued: “For decades, the Boy Scouts of America’s ban on gay adults has stood as a towering example of explicit, institutional homophobia in one of America’s most important and recognizable civic organizations.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; gaykkk; gays; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; lavendermafia; liberalfascism; libertarians; medicalmarijuana
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1 posted on 07/13/2015 1:34:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Good bye BSA.


2 posted on 07/13/2015 1:35:24 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: SeekAndFind

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3311347/posts


3 posted on 07/13/2015 1:36:26 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So why are they bending over backwards to.prove how liberal they are?

This is galling too, when you consider the issue of homosexual leaders went to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court upheld the right of the Boy Scouts to ban homosexuals. Now they give in anyway.


4 posted on 07/13/2015 1:36:29 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

The camel had it’s head in the tent long ago with this once great organization.

And people will be shocked when boys are molested by gay men.


5 posted on 07/13/2015 1:37:13 PM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: SeekAndFind

Boy Scouts executives vote to effectively end the Boys Scouts. Nice job!


6 posted on 07/13/2015 1:37:15 PM PDT by DAC21 (.z)
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To: SeekAndFind; SZonian
So sad, both my son and I were Scouts,

It was a great experience.

7 posted on 07/13/2015 1:37:18 PM PDT by PROCON (Wow! They're faster than Stalin.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sound the Funeral Dirge for BSA>


8 posted on 07/13/2015 1:37:51 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SeekAndFind

What could go wrong?


9 posted on 07/13/2015 1:37:54 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Good bye BSA

BSA has been on the skids of late. This should be just about the end.

10 posted on 07/13/2015 1:38:15 PM PDT by stevem
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To: PROCON
CHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE TO THE BOY SCOUT
11 posted on 07/13/2015 1:38:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

When the BSA voted to include gay scouts they lost 6% of their membership. My guess is if they vote this in for leaders they will not be able to recover from the membership loss.


12 posted on 07/13/2015 1:38:48 PM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mothers don’t let your babies grow up to be a Boy Scout.


13 posted on 07/13/2015 1:39:09 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: SeekAndFind

Calling Dr McCoy, you are needed for a meme...


14 posted on 07/13/2015 1:39:11 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SeekAndFind

We pulled our cubscout out last year


15 posted on 07/13/2015 1:40:04 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“So why are they bending over backwards to prove how liberal they are?”

No, it’s forwards.

Only a matter of time now until, like the ancient
Roman Army, buggery becomes a Scout rite of passage
for young new recruits.

Boy Sodomites of America


16 posted on 07/13/2015 1:40:25 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: SeekAndFind

Here come the “Chicken Hawks”. BSA can KMA.


17 posted on 07/13/2015 1:40:34 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: SeekAndFind
We should put our collective efforts and resources with the replacement to the Boy Scouts:

http://www.traillifeusa.com/

In fact, we should make it BETTER than its predecessor.

18 posted on 07/13/2015 1:40:55 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wouldn’t allow children anywhere near the queer scouts of Amerika. What a sick perversion they have become!


19 posted on 07/13/2015 1:41:29 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Gamecock

Well maybe they won’t be shocked, because most normal parents are going to take their kids out. It will be nothing but rainbows after that?


20 posted on 07/13/2015 1:41:36 PM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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