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."
This is a great victory for male queers. After they infiltrated the Catholic Priesthood they were able to rape thousands of little boys, some of the queers in fact admitted to a hundred or more molestations. The CC has since purged the ranks of homosexuals and now, the Boy SCOUTS will commit the same heinous abuse of male children to be repeated. The BSA has committed to the sex trafficking and sexual abuse of male children. They will pay a price while the Sodomites win again.
The true Christian Church is the only bulwark against them now. Therefore, expect the big guns to be brought against it in all their satanic rage.
Unlock the gate and the barbarians will flood it.
Homos will run sex rings like they did before they got sued in the l980’s. The ring ran nationwide - so the kid could live in Virginia and go to camp in Tennessee and they would be used by a group of pedos who live in Tennessee. They were abused by men inside and outside the scouts- insiders fed the kids to the outsiders pals.
They dwarfed the Catholic church’s abuse scandal (at least the ones who came forward.) All homo abuse. Child abuse is the way homo men increase their ranks. They use abused teens to groom and bring in the little ones. Each homo has his own age range preference...
Get your kids out NOW. The appetites are insatiable and they are cruel. It will be more aggressive and mean now that they don’t have to hide. The children are nothing but pieces of meat. They feed them “date rape” drugs, too.
If they HAD fought with everything they had and lost, I’d still be a Scoutmaster. But they caved in 2 years ago without a whisper
I still lead young men but with a different organization
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But in response to your comment:
"there are no queer 11 year olds"
You don't know that and are apparently ignorant of the increasing number of "trans" kids at younger and younger years. But there are "queer" 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 year olds...I give you Pascal Tessler & Zach Wahls. At what age did they decide they were homo?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/11/gay-teen-achieves-eagle-scout-milestone-in-maryland/
"the ignorant and misinformed don’t know and understand that boys are aware and a fag amongst them will have a hard time"
The ever present indoctrination of PC, forced "inclusivity" and "diversity" by the BSA, public schools and increasingly, in society in general, has done much to reduce the animus any might feel or even dare to demonstrate to another scout or leader for fear of retribution.
IOW, it is you who is either ignorant & misinformed or more probably, deceitful in continuing your lame attempts to defend the BSA's indefensible decisions in the past 2 years.
The Faggot Scouts is a dead institution and now seeks boy Toys for their
personal pleasure.
the numbers are miniscule, even trivial
Get real
I would suggest that the reason there are increasing numbers and younger examples of disordered individuals is because the disorders are being promoted, normalized, and celebrated. CHILDREN are being corrupted by sexual predators and the collectivist Leftist death cult.
Regardless, the Leftists' faith based and unscientific battle cry for 'Gay Rights'; there are no 'gay' or 'trans' beings -the disorder is all mental, cause(s) unknown/unproved. 'Gay' beings have never been discriminated against because there is objectively no way to identify the supposed species. One can not discriminate against what is in one's mind; as such, there was never a ban against 'gays' there was a ban against unhealthy and disordered sexual activity. Society picks winners and losers -society has never chosen to grant privilege or celebrate unhealthy and disordered sexual activity (homosexual couplings) REGARDLESS society is now being forced to accept and subsidize it now.
Reagan had his Kennedy, and GWB his Gates!!! The perfidy never stops.
A lot more than you might think; after all these are "Americans" we are talking about.
How much is National paying you bert?
I don’t give a damn how “miniscule” the numbers are, 1 is too many...something that you don’t seem to get.
True, I wasn’t looking at “root causes”, just that there is an increasing number of kids with these disorders...the person I was posting to is a BSA apologist in this whole matter...
I appreciate the background info.
Probably much less than your church is paying you to troll
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