Posted on 07/15/2015 11:44:55 AM PDT by wagglebee
IRVING, Texas, July 15, 2014 (LifeSiteNews) – The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have changed their longstanding policy and will now allow openly homosexual troop leaders.
Their executive committee unanimously passed a resolution to lift a ban on gay and bisexual adult leaders, it was announced this week. The resolution, passed by a committee of 17, will become official Boy Scout policy if ratified by the National Executive Board on July 27.
The Boy Scouts have been moving toward endorsing homosexuality for years. In 2013, the national council voted to allow openly homosexual youths – boys and young men identifying as gay – to become Scouts and participate fully in the Boy Scouts' programs, counseling, personal training, and group trips. However, they kept a ban on gay troop leaders.
BSA president and former secretary of defense Robert Gates called on the organization to lift that ban. The reason for the change is the fluctuation of societal norms and "increasing legal challenges at the federal, state, and local levels," a Boy Scouts statement read. In other words, lawsuits have forced the change.
"I truly fear that any other alternative will be the end of us as a national movement," said Gates.
Gates said the Boy Scouts should change policy before courts inevitably forced them to. "The status quo in our movement's membership standards cannot be sustained."
"We cannot ignore growing internal challenges to our current membership policy, from some councils – like the Greater New York council, the Denver Area council, and others – in open defiance of the policy," Gates told the executive committee. "We can expect more councils to openly challenge the current policy."
In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Boy Scouts had a constitutional right to exclude openly gay Scout masters based on the Scouts' First Amendment freedom of association. However, the Boy Scouts' website admitted that if their ban were legally challenged today, the Boy Scouts "would almost certainly lose." The organization explained on its website that the BSA is too internally divided on the issue, and legal precedents and public opinion have too drastically changed.
The decision gives each local troop the right to decide whether to consider sexual orientation in choosing troop leaders. That allowance gives church-based troops the leeway to pick Christian troop leaders, but it also has raised criticism among gay activists.
"This policy change is not perfect: BSA's religious chartering partners will be allowed to continue to discriminate against gay adults," Scouts for Equality executive director Zach Wahls pointed out. About 70% of the 650 Boy Scout troops in the greater Los Angeles area are chartered by religious organizations.
Douglas NeJaime, faculty director of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute for LGBTQ issues, said the protection churches and religious organizations have in choosing troop leaders depends on how a state's anti-discrimination law is written.
"A lot of this is pretty unsettled," NeJaime said. In many states, it depends on whether it can be proven that the person being hired is directly helping to fulfill the nonprofit's religious mission, explained NeJaime.
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is expressing opposition to the change in Scout policy. "I'm an Eagle Scout, my kids were in scouts, my mom was a den mother," Walker said. "I think their previous policy was perfectly fine."
Walked told IJReview.com that his concerns are to preserve the Judeo-Christian values of Scouting, and to protect vulnerable young boys. "I support the previous membership policy because it protected children and advanced Scout values," he said.
Responding to gay criticism of Walker's personal comments, spokeswoman AshLee Strong explained, "The previous policy protected Scouts from the rancorous political debate over policy issues and culture wars. Scouts should not be used as a political football on issues that can often be heated and divisive."
Homosexuals have ALWAYS preyed upon boys; society's responsibility is to protect these boys, not enable their predators.
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The BSA is now defunct. Nice cave!
Homosexuality begins in early pubescence when a predator intimidates a child into sexual activity. The impact of this is absolutely profound, dramatically altering the young boy’s sexuality. Sodomizing children is the most evil of acts. The BSA are now complicit in this horror.
BSA now stands for Boy, Sodomy’s Awesome
It is now forbidden to say what is OBVIOUSLY true. The search term “boy scouts” leads to a whole genre of gay porn.
When Gates became head of the BSA this was a done deal. Gates opened Scouting to self professed gay youth. Leaders followed.
Gates is another gift of George W. Bush to this country. Bush made him Secretary of State. Obama kept him in the role. Gates is a creature of the uniparty and the governing elite.
Having a homosexual “leader” taking a bunch of young boys on an overnight camping trip . . .what could possibly go wrong.
Right. A BSA President of principle and character would be fighting this, damned the lawsuits.
Heres the future of the BSA:
In 1998, Canadian Scouts (CS) decided to allow females, atheists, agnostics, homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals to join the CS. In 1999, they approved the establishment of an all-homosexual troop, which now marches in Canada’s “gay pride” parades. Within five years, scouting membership dropped over 50 percent, many scouting camps and offices were closed, and staff was laid off.
More importantly is the tragic sexual abuse by leaders in scouting.
http://lastresistance.com/1262/canadas-boy-scouts-warn-bsa-of-homosexual-infiltration/
Mama don’t let your babies grow up to boy scouts.....
It’s how Satan works to rule the Earth — infiltrate, seize, and destroy any & all institutions that attempt to uphold God, virtue, and traditional values. Families, the church, schools, the courts, volunteer organizations, etc.
Are they now going to offer buggering badges too??
there are no queer 11 year olds
the ignorant and misinformed don’t know and understand that boys are aware and a fag amongst them will have a hard time
Probably a decent enough guy, but he will forever be known as the hetro that did more to advance the gay agenda than anyone else. What a wake of destruction..
“Boy Scouts flip-flop: will allow open homosexuals as troop leaders.” WAS THERE EVER ANY DOUBT?
The old saying “the camel’s nose under the tent” always is proven true.
It’s simply a case of the “isms.” When that is attached to the end of any word or phrase you can bet that incrementalism will always occur. Once the cancer of “ism” starts it never stops. It simply goes on and on and on until it morphs into a new type of “ism.”
“Boy Scouts” has an entirely new meaning now.
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