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A.G. Schneiderman Announces Agreement with the Boy Scouts Of America to Allow Openly Gay Leaders
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ^ | July 27th 2015 | Barbara Underwood

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: Today’s 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.

“Today’s announcement is a watershed moment for the Boy Scouts of America. The mission of the Boy Scouts is to prepare our nation’s 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 staffer’s 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 BSA’s adult leadership standard, the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau opened an investigation into the BSA in April 2015. As a result of the Attorney General’s 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 BSA’s 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:

  • Permanently eliminate the leadership standard excluding openly gay adults, on a nationwide basis;
  • Develop guidelines for the implementation of its new leadership standard;
  • Designation of an Equal Employment Opportunity Officer;
  • Develop a training program for all managerial employees concerning the new leadership standard and its effect upon the recruitment, hiring, and retention of employees in New York; and
  • Monitor for complaints concerning violations of its new leadership standard.

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.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 201412; 2015; andrewcuomo; boyscouts; bsa; cynthianixon; ericschneiderman; fakenews2015; homosexualagenda; lgbt; metoo; newyork; nyag; pascaltessier; pervs; schneiderman; tessier
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To: Brown Deer

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41 posted on 05/09/2018 1:16:16 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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To: Thibodeaux

From what I can understand, local BSA groups may be okay and not infiltrated by homos. A headline the other day said girls are now going to be allowed to be “Boy” Scouts. Your viewpoint would be good to read because the news about the BSA is far from cheering.


42 posted on 05/09/2018 1:20:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: bert

I doubt if there are accurate numbers of how many homos in the BSA.


43 posted on 05/09/2018 1:21:26 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Albion Wilde

I remember the threads about John Wheeler - such a tragic crime. And Biden was the AG, how sickening, didn’t remember (or know) that.

Recent news about the Weiner laptop and the NYPD is that Lynch, along with some other big name (was it Comey??) threatened the PD that if they went ahead with investigating the laptop contents, they would be sued about the Eric Garner death while being arrested. So the NYPD backed off. And then of course with Schneiderman as AG, the PD was cut off at the knees.

Rottenness that needs to be cut out and cauterized.


44 posted on 05/09/2018 1:24:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Albion Wilde; bert

Thanks for the ping. I am glad that my two sons with whom I spent fifteen years actively involved in Scouting are middle aged and both have daughters. This further news, exaggerated or not, is sad to hear.

It was strangely stupid that the BSA let its national program be severely hampered by blinking some years ago. I have a lot of sympathy for fellow posters like “bert” who still see some worth and viability in the program as it still is actually being practiced in their area.

I have too much fondness for those years I spent with my sons and their fellows to spend any time campaigning against an aging program — My dog ain’t in that fight.

I have previously mentioned a few years ago at about age 60 I was in a barber shop and some fellow in his 30s came up to say Hi and when he realized I didn’t recognize him, he introduced himself as Jim Smith from a Webelos den a buddy and I had run almost 20 years earlier. He told me how many great memories he had of those times.

That is what is important, creating valued memories with our kids and other youngsters of our communities. Programs and politics being ruined or held together are secondary.


45 posted on 05/09/2018 1:28:31 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Brown Deer

Boy, Mormons are probably ecstatic they had already announced they were no longer going to support the BSA, or the fruits camping with young bays group.


46 posted on 05/09/2018 1:39:03 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Thibodeaux

What’s fake about it?


47 posted on 05/09/2018 1:42:36 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Thibodeaux
Boy Scouts Lose 425,000 Boys 1 Week After Announcing Name Change

Keep lying. The Internet keeps the rest of us informed.

48 posted on 05/09/2018 1:47:08 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: Albion Wilde

What a polite response. I tend to get real nasty in response to this kind of post.


49 posted on 05/09/2018 1:48:54 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: bert

“There are more queer churchmen and teachers and coaches than associated with BSA.”

You don’t know that.

That’s just homosexual propaganda to claim their Scouting for Boys isn’t happening, yet, the homosexuals are desperately trying to keep within the BSA.

Why is that? They don’t have children, but can’t wait to be with boys they find sexually desirable, and we’re supposed to let them??

Homosexuality is mental illness and no mentally ill should be left with children.


50 posted on 05/09/2018 1:49:57 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: Altura Ct.

No. He represents the sick society, us normals and deplorables represent the real America


51 posted on 05/09/2018 2:08:40 PM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: CodeToad
“There are more queer churchmen and teachers and coaches than associated with BSA.”

It is a stupid statement not even worth of a reply. It is like saying that there are more murders in America than in New Orleans. On the surface, it is like saying that New Orleans is as safe as anywhere in America, even though it is one of the top five cities in America. But this "technical truth" becomes a blatant falsehood in what it is trying to imply.

52 posted on 05/09/2018 2:11:38 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Brown Deer

These libertards are truly insane.


53 posted on 05/09/2018 2:15:36 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: John O

You are out of touch. You are too restricted in who you know.


54 posted on 05/09/2018 2:17:15 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: elpadre
This was a 2015 story announcing the death of the finest program ever devised for young boys. Everything they taught was good and made kids responsible and self-sufficient. It played an important role in my formation and I was a Scoutmaster earlier in my life. We were out camping and hiking often throughout the year. The liberals destroy everything which is good and wholesome. I am sick about what they have done. - a former Eagle

Their motto is. "Kill the innocent and free the guilty"

55 posted on 05/09/2018 2:29:45 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

No, they changed their name striking out BOY because they now accept girls too.


56 posted on 05/09/2018 2:57:11 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (If teens can be trusted to change our laws, why make it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy guns?)
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To: Brown Deer
it's background should be looked into a l'il deeper
57 posted on 05/09/2018 3:07:09 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Concentrate

Sorry, the correct answer is, “Do a good deed daily.”


58 posted on 05/09/2018 4:57:06 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: little jeremiah
if they went ahead with investigating the laptop contents, they would be sued about the Eric Garner death while being arrested. So the NYPD backed off.

Such a pity. There is probably more to the story, as well; such as threats of Soros-financed rent-a-mobs all over any Eric Garner publicity, and the resulting cop assassinations by riled-up useful idiots.

59 posted on 05/09/2018 6:03:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Brown Deer

It’s so sad, what has happened to the Boy Scouts. Now they march under the banner of diversity and inclusion. In the meantime, males continue to lose out in all kinds of ways - in schools and universities, in suicide rates. They’re prescribed drugs so they can fit into a school system that prefers female behavior. I wonder how long this myth of female oppression in this country will continue (and I’m female).


60 posted on 05/09/2018 7:08:16 PM PDT by beejaa
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