Let’s not bash the BSA yet. they have not made a decision....yet. And as an Eagle Scout, i hope they do make the right decision and stick with the ban. If they don’t, i am going to be very angry.... But don’t bash them yet, i have written an e-mail, and hopefully along with everyone else’s letter, will make the difference.
I agree with your sentiment but word has it that this is cut in stone. All the national organization is doing is removing that requirement. Where local organizations can continue to maintain the ban, they will.
Where the will isn’t there, they won’t.
Our orgainization is chartered through a local United Methodist Church but serves, almost exclusively, a private school. Our meetings are at the school and all but a couple of boys go there. We were kicked out of the school for recruitment and for meetings for a short period because a lib parent made a huge scene about the ban.
It was only through negotiations and an agreement that we would not specifically ban gays were we allowed back in. We already had an agnostic scout leader and a proclaimed athiest kid so we signed the agreement.
If we didn’t, we wouldn’t be able to provide a positive influence to the many who wanted to participate.
I understand principles but the world is unfortunately different now. My choice was let the organization die for our principles or take the hit and still provide an opportunity for the kids to learn their own principles.