Posted on 05/08/2018 10:47:36 PM PDT by Brown Deer
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Agreement with the Boy Scouts Of America to Allow Openly Gay Leaders
Agreement Ensures That The Boy Scouts Provide Equal Opportunity For Gay Employees Nationwide
Schneiderman: Todays Announcement Is A Watershed Moment For The Boy Scouts Of America
NEW YORK Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to end its policy of excluding openly gay adults from serving as leaders in the organization. As part of the settlement, the BSA has agreed to eliminate the standard nationally, develop guidelines for implementing its new leadership standard, and ensure compliance with anti-discrimination laws going forward.
Todays announcement is a watershed moment for the Boy Scouts of America. The mission of the Boy Scouts is to prepare our nations young people to become responsible citizens and leaders, and I can think of no better way of doing that than by enabling young people to learn from a diverse group of role models, said Attorney General Schneiderman. I am pleased to see the Boy Scouts of America renew its commitment to equal protection under the law, and I look forward to the organization welcoming a new generation of LGBT scout leaders in the months and years ahead.
"Our family is grateful for the support of the New York Attorney General in holding the Boy Scouts of America accountable for its anti-gay employment and membership policies, said Tracie Felker, the mother of Pascal Tessier, the gay youth member who applied to work for the Greater New York Councils. The policy change enacted today will lay the framework for a new era of acceptance and equal opportunity for gay scouts and leaders in the Boy Scout program."
The BSA was founded in 1910 and chartered by Congress with the mission of preparing young people to become responsible citizens and leaders. Historically, the BSA excluded openly gay individuals from membership and leadership, but this policy changed in May 2013, when the BSA announced that youth, up to age 17, could no longer be denied membership on the basis of sexual orientation alone. At that time, however, the BSA did not change its adult leadership standard and continued to maintain a nationwide policy that excluded openly gay individuals aged eighteen or older.
In December 2014, an openly gay BSA youth member, who had recently turned eighteen, submitted an application to work as a camp staffer with the Greater New York Councils. The Greater New York Councils hired the openly gay individual in February 2015. Aware that the staffer was required, as part of his employment, to register as an adult leader of the BSA, the Greater New York Councils submitted the staffers adult leader application to the BSA for such registration. The BSA registered the individual and took no action to interfere with his employment by the Greater New York Councils.
In response to concerns about the BSAs adult leadership standard, the Attorney Generals Civil Rights Bureau opened an investigation into the BSA in April 2015. As a result of the Attorney Generals investigation, the BSA took immediate steps to suspend the enforcement of its adult leadership standard in New York State. In May 2015, at its national annual meeting, BSA President Dr. Robert Gates encouraged the BSA to consider changing its leadership standard that excluded openly gay adults, and further stated that the BSA would not take any action against local councils that did not follow the BSAs leadership standard in order to comply with state anti-discrimination laws. First by vote of its Executive Committee on July 10, and then by ratification by its National Executive Board on July 27, 2015, the BSA rescinded its leadership standard.
Under the terms of the agreement with Attorney General Schneiderman, the BSA agreed to:
This matter is being handled by Assistant Attorney General Justin Deabler, and Civil Rights Bureau Chief Kristen Clarke. The Bureau is part of the Division of Social Justice, which is led by Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice Alvin Bragg.
Fake Post
I don’t know of a single normal family who would entrust their sons to the perverts running the (used to be) BSA.
Why do the faggots want to be boy scout leaders? Because that’s where the boys are!!! The BSA is a target rich environment for faggots.
Look it up if you don't know what the terminology means.
NEWS HEADLINE---NYAG Eric Schneiderman suspended the NY investigation of the Nxivm international sex cult...
LINK TO TIMES UNION ARTICLE https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/993687358225768448
As with the FBI, we shouldn’t be tempted to think the rank and file that are also black hats, generally. It’s the sickos that have been appointed and installed at the top of the heap—the CFR’s, the SES’s, blood oathers and other secret society types that push this kind of evil onto the rest of us.
Please don’t imagine this is some sort of grassroots campaign that is bucking to become a budding new majority on the merits of their claims.
They of course want us to be cowed into corners fearing that we’ll be called “haters,” “racists,” and so forth, when we in fact should be as confident as the Bible is about hating the sin while loving the sinner.
Nonetheless, to the degree that this small number of vile sicko’s continue to infect us with their evil and that of the Prince of This World, we are indeed fallen. But we’ve been that since Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Liberalism destroys EVERYTHING it touches.....EVERYTHING, including the BSA.
It is the BORG of this century and should be totally wiped out. The insane POSs belong in a padded cell...better yet, a grave..
(Boy) Scouts ping, for anyone who still cares.
Brown Deer has posted this story from 2015 that shows the tie between the disgraced woman beater Attorney General of New York (Schneiderman, the NeverTrumper) and the gay takeover of the BSA.
There was no gay take over of BSA. To post such a lie is a blot on your reputation.
There are more queer churchmen and teachers and coaches than associated with BSA.
Where are your anti Roman Catholic Professional queer rants?
2015.
And so the Boy Scouts die.
You should have put “(2015)” in the title.
Forcing the BSA to allow openly gay leaders is a direct contradiction of the Scout Oath. It is no surprise that disgraced A.G. Schneiderman himself is a sexual pervert and deviant.
How many other powerful Boy Scout Executives are also perverts? Certainly they have perverted the Boy Scouts. Maybe if they can be outed, the BSA can roll back the clock and revert to its original moral compass.
No more gay boys and trans girls with those trans leaders demanding to sleep in the same tents with the girls and boys, stormin' into their church demanding "equal treatment!"
That is big news, Ablion Wilde! The pervs all support each other and promote the entire spectrum of the perv agenda. They ALL need to be exposed and gotten rid of. IMHO Schneiderman may well have been a member of or connected to the NIXVIUM sex/slavery cult. A monther ago he stopped the NY investigation into it - why? I think his name is in their files. Two bigwigs were arrested recently and the word is that Allison Mack is singing like a canary and naming big names.
I know I'm hoping against hope but...could this be why BSA changed their name?
Weenie roasts will now be called 'sausage fests'.
I remember just before the 2016 election, after Weiner's laptop was dumped, there was a big flurry on the net that even thought the FBI were colluding with the Deep State and the media were calling pizzagate "fake", the NYPD was going to go after the sex pervs big time, many connected to the Clintons. Somehow, that all just totally fizzled out. Now we see whywhen we see who was NYC's attorney general.
Reminds me of the murder of John Wheeler in what2011?dumped in a landfill in Delaware. He was thought to be investigating government wrongdoing. With the patriot community avidly following the investigation, it was suddenly called off after a couple of weeks, and has never been resumed. Who was Delaware's attorney general? Hmm; Beau Biden, Joe Biden's son.
bert, you are entirely mistaken in your characterization of me.
Good move to allow male sex-offenders close access to little boys, the obsession of 98% of male queers. Allowing the abuse of children to placate the queers seems to be a part of the new normal. Didn’t anyone learn what male queers did for the catholic priesthood? To be clear, I am not blaming the Catholic Church; I am placing the blame squarely on the infiltration of the church’s priesthood by male sodomites.
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