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Boy Scouts of America Amends Adult Leadership Policy [Openly Gay Leaders Now Allowed]
Boy Scouts of America ^ | July 27, 2015 | Newsroom Blog

Posted on 07/27/2015 7:17:32 PM PDT by beaversmom

On Monday, July 27, the National Executive Board ratified a resolution that removes the national restriction on openly gay adult leaders and employees. Of those present and voting, 79 percent voted in favor of the resolution. The resolution was recommended for ratification by the Executive Committee earlier this month. The resolution is effective immediately.

Chartered organizations will continue to select their adult leaders and religious chartered organizations may continue to use religious beliefs as criteria for selecting adult leaders, including matters of sexuality. This change allows Scouting’s members and parents to select local units, chartered to organizations with similar beliefs, that best meet the needs of their families. This change also respects the right of religious chartered organizations to choose adult volunteer leaders whose beliefs are consistent with their own.

Moving forward, we will continue to focus on reaching and serving youth, helping them grow into good, strong citizens. By focusing on the goals that unite us, we are able to accomplish incredible things for young people and the communities we serve.

Also, today the Boy Scouts of America shared this video of National President Dr. Robert M. Gates speaking on the policy change.

Video: BSA Adult Leadership Standards Update – July 27, 2015


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buttscouts; feelfreetosearch
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Robert Gates Remarks (PDF)
1 posted on 07/27/2015 7:17:32 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

BSA is dead to me.

New BSA headquarters to be built in Sodom.


2 posted on 07/27/2015 7:18:58 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: beaversmom

This is child abuse.


3 posted on 07/27/2015 7:19:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America Matters!)
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Noticed the out for church based scout troops. All well and good, until a jamboree...

No thanks, severe the ties now and forever.


4 posted on 07/27/2015 7:23:10 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: beaversmom

How many of the 79 % that voted yes are gay or bisexual?


5 posted on 07/27/2015 7:23:36 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Kids will be abused, the BSA will be sued, it will lose all donated monies...and the Left will get what it always wanted.


6 posted on 07/27/2015 7:24:12 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: beaversmom

Well I guess it will be OK if queer scout leaders lead queer scouts under the supervision of a queer priest....but then you wouldn’t want a normal straight kid in that mix!


7 posted on 07/27/2015 7:24:40 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Kind of classy of His Arrogance to go to overseas and tell them to suck up to queers and perverts.)
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To: beaversmom

2015: The year the boy scouts died.


8 posted on 07/27/2015 7:25:21 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: beaversmom

Sodomy merit badges coming soon.

Christian Service Brigade is a great option for those who don’t want mentally ill deviants leading and doing who knows what else to their boys.

http://csbministries.org/


9 posted on 07/27/2015 7:26:38 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Covenantor

The religious institutions may have been given an “out” by BSA, but not by the homofascists...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3317369/posts?page=43#43


10 posted on 07/27/2015 7:26:46 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: beaversmom

Another previously good organization succumbing to PC BS. Now it is worthless and will never get another dime from me.


11 posted on 07/27/2015 7:27:48 PM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Romans Nine

And can you believe that Robert Gates caps off the end of his letter with “THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF SCOUTING. GOD BLESS THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.”

I think Gates just took God’s name in vain with that tidbit. I’m thinking God probably won’t blessing the BSA, Gates.


12 posted on 07/27/2015 7:28:21 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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I do not think God will bless the BSA, or the USA for that matter. We are under His judgment, thus the reprobate minds you encounter in top leadership positions. (Romans 1)


13 posted on 07/27/2015 7:33:21 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: beaversmom
This change also respects the right of religious chartered organizations to choose adult volunteer leaders whose beliefs are consistent with their own.

For the time being. That will not be allowed to last. "They" will go after that next. And they'll get it. BSA have completely capitulated. The only thing to decide is how quickly they do it.

I was in Girl Scouts with my wife (she was a troop leader) for 10 years some 20+ years ago. There were strict protocols to follow for men. I took my own tent and set it at a suitable distance from the girls. We had the same girls from Brownies to Seniors. Even though we knew some of the girls quite well outside of scouts and their parents fully trusted me with their kids at other times, when we were on any Girl Scout activity we always followed prescribed protocol.

A parent must have absolute trust in the adults that are with their children. It would have been very improper for me to be alone with any of them. I absolutely cannot understand why a parent of a young son would want him to be left alone with an openly homosexual male adult. Any more than the parents would have wanted me to camp out with the GS troop by myself. Common sense for anyone with half a brain who actually gives a damn about their kid.

14 posted on 07/27/2015 7:33:52 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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I find this to be disgusting, but at the same time it was expected.

So....to expect to be disgusted is now the new normal.


15 posted on 07/27/2015 7:35:27 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: beaversmom

“Moving forward, we will continue to focus on reaching and serving youth, helping them grow into good, strong citizens.”

And nice little playtoys for the homos.
Well there’s another fine institution taken down
by government sanctioned perversion. My tolerance for
these freaks is eroding rapidly.


16 posted on 07/27/2015 7:36:51 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: Above My Pay Grade
--Sodomy merit badges coming soon.


17 posted on 07/27/2015 7:37:37 PM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: All
Names of Executive Board

Wiki link

18 posted on 07/27/2015 7:41:13 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

19 posted on 07/27/2015 7:45:51 PM PDT by McBuff
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To: jsanders2001

What a loser Gates has proven himself to be.


20 posted on 07/27/2015 7:50:22 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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