[StACase]

My question still stands. Would he have been kicked out of scouting if the troop leadership found out that he was living with a girlfriend rather than finding out he was homosexual?

Probably not. But you miss the concept at work here. He is not wanted as a leader in the Boy Scouts for the same reason that normal young men are not recruited to be leaders in the Girl Scouts. Sending a young man to go camping in the woods alone with young girls is not a good idea. And....I don't really have to spell this out do I?

[Non-Sequitur]

No, but you make the point that he was kicked out for who he was and not any misbehavior on his part. And you make it clear that 'morally straight' can mean whatever it is convenient for it to mean. Finally, let me make it clear that I have no problem with the Boy Scouts as a private organization establishing their own standards for who they will admit as scouts and scout leaders and who they will not. That is their right and nobody can or should be able to take that away from them. But I find it pretty dumb on their part that apparently they could assume that people wouldn't find their discrimination objectionable and this whole thing would blow over. What did they expect?

[yendu bwam]

But you miss the concept at work here. He is not wanted as a leader in the Boy Scouts for the same reason that normal young men are not recruited to be leaders in the Girl Scouts. Sending a young man to go camping in the woods alone with young girls is not a good idea. And....I don't really have to spell this out do I?

For a lot of people, you DO need to spell it out. Not wanting a homosexual scoutmaster for your sons, just as you do not want a male (heterosexual) scoutmaster for your teenage daughters is just common sense. It is NOT bigotry or hate. Again, homosexual scoutmasters (who in many cases do feel sexual attraction to teenage boys) have no business being Boy Scout scoutmasters or around anybody's teenage sons. I you don't understand this, just ask all those Catholic parents who let their teenage sons pal around for hours at a time with their local priests.