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In May 2015, BSA President Robert Gates told the national meeting of the BSA in Atlanta that he believes that the current policy of excluding openly gay adults from leadership positions is "unsustainable" and should be changed at an early date. He told the organization that recent events have made it increasingly likely that the BSA will face serious legal challenges to that policy. He advocated removing this exclusion from the BSA's policies but allowing each chartered organization (70% of which are religious organizations) to establish criteria for their units' adult leaders consistent with the organization's values. Gates indicated in subsequent comments that he expected the BSA to take action on his recommendations by October 2015.

How did that work out for you?

1 posted on 03/03/2021 6:18:46 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

So let me get this straight. The BSA is sued for child molesters in their ranks but have to have fruitcakes as scout leaders. Got it.


2 posted on 03/03/2021 6:23:02 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: artichokegrower

Probably worked out exactly the way his trial lawyer friends intended it to. I just wonder if he gets a spiff off every case.


3 posted on 03/03/2021 6:23:53 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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So the government forces the Boy Scouts to use homosexual men to lead overnight camping trips with young boys and when the homosexual man follows through on his obviously uncontrollable sexual urge the Boy Scouts are sued into bankruptcy and subjected to public condemnation because they used homosexual men to lead overnight camping trips with young boys.

Is this a great country or what?!

4 posted on 03/03/2021 6:24:40 AM PST by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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Thank you Dr Gates. A pedophile enabler.


5 posted on 03/03/2021 6:25:59 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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Oh noess! Rockwell is a dead white male whose subjects were predominantly white. There must be a racism claim in there somewhere to force those paintings into some dark museum corner never to be seen again.


6 posted on 03/03/2021 6:28:44 AM PST by Avalon Memories (I will only ever refer to Biden by his new nickname...Asterisk. )
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The BSA died years ago when it officially abandoned biblical principles of morality by endorsing homosexuality.


7 posted on 03/03/2021 6:31:09 AM PST by Safrguns
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Organized Christian religion in the West is being ruined by homosexuals posing as clergy much the way the Boy Scouts was ruined by homosexuals posing as Scoutmasters and being allowed leadership positions. Norman Rockwell would not want his work in the hands of such an organization.


8 posted on 03/03/2021 6:32:45 AM PST by allendale
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allowing each chartered organization (70% of which are religious organizations) to establish criteria

BSA cut them loose to fend for themselves. Made it easy work for homosexual groups to pick off the troops one at a time.

9 posted on 03/03/2021 6:33:32 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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There is no such entity as the “Boy Scouts”. There was at one time, my son is an Eagle Scout. My grandson will not be.


10 posted on 03/03/2021 6:36:13 AM PST by Az Joe (Congress got less than it deserved on January 6th)
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When they’re selling the artwork, you KNOW they’re in trouble!


11 posted on 03/03/2021 6:45:35 AM PST by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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I read the article and the "art expert and critic" did her best to disparage and degrade these paintings - I'm sure hoping that the scouts will get far less money than they're worth.

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"I Will Do My Best"

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12 posted on 03/03/2021 6:46:34 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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Everything liberals touch turns to excrement.


26 posted on 03/03/2021 8:48:05 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose is to force capitulation. — Adolf Hitler,)
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This is just another organization that molded young men into great leaders that was destroyed by the left wing. They are winning and we are letting them win.


27 posted on 03/03/2021 9:42:55 AM PST by BradtotheBone (When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers, so they can let me down one last time.)
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But, in order to be trendy and “woke”, the bsa will continue to allow fags/libertarians/pedophiles to participate in the bsa? Got it. Makes sense. /s


28 posted on 03/03/2021 9:54:38 AM PST by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: artichokegrower

What could go wrong allowing homosexual men to guide young boys. Why do does a pedophile man want to supervise in the Boy Scouts, because it’s where the boys are.


35 posted on 03/03/2021 12:25:51 PM PST by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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