This wasn't funny when it aired.
Even less so now.
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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I can't agree with you more. I am the Cubmaster for our pack that is chartered by the Knights of Columbus. We do as little fundraising as possible that benefits National.
And, yes, Robert Gates is a shameful POS.
As expected and telegraphed by RINO Bob Gates.
I quit supporting BSA long ago.
This wasn't funny when it aired.
Even less so now.
Trail Life USA is a Christian adventure, character, and leadership program for young men.
O’Sullivan’s Law: Any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.
Robert Gates is one rotten POS.
Nobody knows how many boy’s lives will be ruined because they were molested on a camping trip.
Gates is not ‘dealing with the world the way that it is’, he’s helping to create a new, abnormal, destructive reality.
Another great institution hijacked and destroyed by left-wing God-haters. Turn the lights off on the way out.
Trail Life USA, great alternative.
Was that anything but predictable?
Sounds like the committee members aren't as convinced, or principled, as they might act. Didn't take the full step, probably an act of self-preservation and cowardice. But this still will not appeal to many local scout troops.
The goal of the rainbow crowd, all along, was to gut the BSA.
Get the Christians to quit or never sign up to begin with, just like they are doing to the military.
Get the Christians out; kill the organizational culture; establish new political, secular, queer culture.
Isn’t that special.
Queer Boy scout leaders Offend me.
Time to create an alternative to the BSA. Maybe call it the MBSA - Masculine Boy Scouts of America.
Get your new rump rider badge
Follow the money.
Sexual deviants who lust after other men, especially boys....
Allow them in an organization specifically designed around boys, 11 to 17 years of age...
Why doesn’t the BSA Executive Committee see a problem with this?
The end of ‘polite’ society and the end of the BSA!
How long, Americans, are we going to stand idly by?
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