I could have sworn that the BSA said they were letting the locals do what they want regardless of national policy, but I cant find proof of that and the website says ‘shall not discriminate soley...’
and it even says the gay kids can tell the other kid scouts that they are gay, which is the problem.
Scouts should have the DADT policy on gayness.
I am going to ask my friend what loophole he was refering too,
That was before the bait and switch. The original proposal was to enact Local Control, to encourage troops to admit homosexual youth and leaders but not to require it.
After great outcry, they agreed to poll the membership and did an extensive poll of Scouters, scouts parents and Charter Organizations.
The results were overwhelming from most sector to keep the current policy and not allow homosexual boys or leaders. So, when the time came for the delegates to vote, the verbiage was changed to just include boys and not leaders (yet). It passed and the new membership standard you were reading was enacted to require troops to accept homosexual boys into their units.