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NBC Exclusive: Boy Scouts Close to Ending Ban on Gay Members, Leaders
NBC News ^ | Monday, January 28, 2013 | Pete Williams

Posted on 01/28/2013 10:15:05 AM PST by kristinn

The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest private youth organizations, is actively considering an end to its decades-long policy of banning gay scouts or scout leaders, according to scouting officials and outsiders familiar with internal discussions.

If adopted by the organization’s board of directors, it would represent a profound change on an issue that has been highly controversial -- one that even went to the US Supreme Court. The new policy, now under discussion, would eliminate the ban from the national organization’s rules, leaving local sponsoring organizations free to decide for themselves whether to admit gay scouts.

“The chartered organizations that oversee and deliver scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with their organization’s mission, principles or religious beliefs,” according to Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts’ national organization.

Individual sponsors and parents “would be able to choose a local unit which best meets the needs of their families,” Smith said.

The discussion of a potential change in policy is nearing its final stages, according to outside scouting supporters. If approved, the change could be announced as early as next week, after the BSA's national board holds a regularly scheduled meeting.

Only seven months ago, the Boy Scouts affirmed a policy of banning gay members, after a nearly two-year examination of the issue by a committee of volunteers convened by national leaders of the Boy Scouts of America, known as the BSA.

In a statement last July affirming the ban, its national executive board called it “the best policy for the organization.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; enemedia; homosexualagenda; liberalfascism; nambla; pederasty; pedophilia; pinkmafia
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1 posted on 01/28/2013 10:15:14 AM PST by kristinn
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My kids will never join the Boy Scouts of America, if they decide to allow declared homosexuals as members or leaders.


2 posted on 01/28/2013 10:17:31 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: kristinn

Well, now they won’t have anyone to go to Boy Scouts except the counselors.


3 posted on 01/28/2013 10:17:35 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: kristinn

Never would I allow a son of mine to be in a group that allowed faggots to be in a position of power over him... nor an organization that allowed homosexual propaganda.


4 posted on 01/28/2013 10:19:51 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: kristinn

Et tu Boy Scouts???? BS.


5 posted on 01/28/2013 10:19:57 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: kristinn

Well, that’ll be the end of the Boy Scouts then.


6 posted on 01/28/2013 10:20:21 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: kristinn

If true, this is the end of the BSA.


8 posted on 01/28/2013 10:21:05 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than my guns.)
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To: kristinn

In the afterlife, God may be the ultimate ruler.

But in the here and now, Government makes and enforces the rules. Disobey Him and there will be Hell to pay in the form of harrassment, regulation, condemnation, fines and imprisonment.

The Boy Scouts are simply kneeling to their current Master in the here and now.


9 posted on 01/28/2013 10:21:15 AM PST by staytrue
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To: kristinn

Might be misinformation designed purely to make them look bad in the media

On the other hand, liberals love to infiltrate organizations and never show their true colors until they are in positions of power.


10 posted on 01/28/2013 10:22:31 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: kristinn
Here's what will happen: the BSA leaves it up to individual councils. The ACLU sues these smaller entities who cannot put up the legal defense that the entire BSA did. One by one they fall, forcing councils to allow gay den and pack (troop) leaders.

Talk about a target-rich environment.

11 posted on 01/28/2013 10:22:42 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Tzar
Don’t buy it.

Good advice. This is coming from a cartel of known liars and depraved communist thugs...the media.

12 posted on 01/28/2013 10:24:08 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: kristinn

Not the direction I would have expected the BSA to move.

Hopefully some BSA troops, independent of the national organization, will take steps to ensure that all members from Cub Scout to Eagle Scout are indeed straight and not gay.


13 posted on 01/28/2013 10:24:59 AM PST by OKRA2012
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To: kristinn

Doesn’t sound like the end of the BSA at all.

They’re pushing the decision lower in the organization. Smart move ... I’d guess we won’t be seeing a lot of troops, packs, dens etc that choose to have homosexual leaders, but it insulates the National organization from the controversy.

In fact, it may very well shine a clear light on the limits of the gay movement and it’s agenda. When local organizations don’t stampede to allow gay leaders it’s going to show just how limited the movement really is.


16 posted on 01/28/2013 10:29:25 AM PST by tanknetter
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Probably not going to happen. The Mormon troops would leave.


17 posted on 01/28/2013 10:29:41 AM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: kristinn

That will work out just as well as women in combat units.


18 posted on 01/28/2013 10:30:20 AM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Candor7

You realize, of course, that the BSA has always had gay Scout leaders. The leaders just kept it quiet. The two deep leadership rule was put in place because we couldn’t stop gays from being Scout leaders.


19 posted on 01/28/2013 10:31:25 AM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: kristinn

Why not? It worked out so well for the Roman Catholic Church and Penn State...


20 posted on 01/28/2013 10:33:37 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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