They did a two year study and reaffirmed the ban in 2012. Now month later they are doing it all over again? What else do they need to know? Here us the deal, the gay supporters need more time to sway the public, it wasn’t going their way...
relieved?
it should have been a slam dunk, it should never have been brought up.
I would never be a part of this, I will not let my nephew join for sure.
I hear a can rattling down the road after being kicked....
Who would ever have thought that the BSA would consider voting on leadership from a group of degenerates with such a hideous and obvious record of sex-offenses to openly enter such a fine organization for young boys? What a preposterous and ignorant notion.
The SBC must have caused a pause in the madness, but i feel it is still coming.
BSA put it on the agenda, they should have had the guts to take a vote. They put it off until May because that is the end of the school year. They want to give everyone the summer for the decision to sink in, and probably didn’t want people like me who vehemently disagree with the change to leave the pack mid-year. February is Blue/Gold month, and it certainly would have put a pall over the activities
As a scout leader, not voting is an act of sheer cowardice. BSA leadership board should be ashamed of themselves.
Truly pathetic BSA, truly pathetic.
God help America.
If the Boy Scouts let the homosexuals in the door, it's over for them. The North American Man/Boy Love Association teaches classes on how to molest a child without getting caught. Who would want to hand their young sons over to these people?
If you want to find a homosexual, go to where the kids are. You'll find one there.
Anybody here on FR a member of the 1400 person National Council who’ll be voting on this in May or know someone who is? Any way we can find out who is?
Punt!
c_h
Eagle Scout, 1963
What? The BSA didn’t jump when Obama said to jump?
Good.
Allowing this to happen will doom the Scout program.
Our Troop has had a policy for many years that was put into place after a single, unaffiliated man volunteered to be our Scoutmaster when no one else wanted to take the job. A few months later, he was caught trying to molest a Scout (the kid fought like hell and made a lot of noise, which saved him).
The policy is pretty simple:
Parents and guardians can come on any campout.
New leader applicants must be affiliated with a Scout (father, brother, uncle, guardian, Big Brother, etc.) and proof of such affiliation must be presented to the Troop Committee.
New Leader applicants must undergo a background check immediately (we pay for this, not the BSA). A new Leader Applicant must then camp with us for at least a year and must complete Assistant Scoutmaster training. At that point, the Scoutmaster either recommends or does not recommend the New Applicant to the Troop Committee. If no one on the TC has a problem, then the New Applicant meets with the Charter Organization Rep (the pastor of the church) to seek his clearance. The pastor grills the applicant during this session and looks for “sincerity” above all else. If the New Applicant passes, he then fills out the registration form and we sign it and it goes to Council for another background check. If OK, he/she then is registered.
In the last 30 years, we have not had a gay leader or any incidents of inappropriate behavior.
As for Scouts, we abide by the Scouting rule that no leader can talk about anything sexual with a minor. If a Scout tells a SM or ASM that they are sexually actively and gay or having sex with their girlfriend, it instantly becomes a “counseling event” and we bring in the parents. If, in front of their parents, the Scout admits or tells us they are sexually active, whatever orientation, they are immediately removed from the Troop. If we are presented with external proof of a Scout being sexually active (a pregnant girlfriend), they are out. We have had this happen few times over the past 12 years I have been with the Troop.
We have over 120 Eagle Scouts on our alumni list. Some of them are now openly gay. We just ignore it. But, even our aged-out Eagle Scouts must reapply as a New Leader Applicant if they want to camp with the Troop or become a leader.
I imagine if National passes their “unit rights” rule, we will publish the above and carry on as usual.
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I want to know names of corporate sponsors that are pushing this. Because if the Scouts go to the dark side, I want to know who to boycott forever.
[Warning - Arrest report with very graphic details regarding the activities of a homosexual pedophile “Boy Scout”]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/110542554/Boys-Scouts-of-America-Floyd-David-Slusher-File
What exactly is there to think about?