U.S. Boy Scouts set to end ban on gay members

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/u-boy-scouts-set-end-ban-gay-members-150711650.html

The Boy Scouts of America called to end a long-standing ban on openly gay members, a spokesman said on Friday, but the organization's board must still vote in May on whether to ratify the resolution.

If the vote is approved, "no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone," Deron Smith, the organization's spokesman, told Reuters.

Smith noted that the decision drew from three months of research, surveys and discussions and was "among the most complex and challenging issues facing the BSA and society today."

The deliberations over whether to admit openly gay and lesbian members to the Boy Scouts has divided organizers, polarized its corporate and religious sponsors, and placed the group at the center of a nationwide debate over gay rights over the past two years.

"This is a historic change for the Boy Scouts," said Patrick Boyle, whose 1994 book "Scout's Honor" examined sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America.

"You have a more than hundred-year-old organization changing what it considered a fundamental belief just a decade ago. That says a lot about the Scouts and a lot about how far the gay rights movement has come in the United States."

[11B4V]

I'm sure it's great for your cause, but how many gay threads do we need.

[fhdz]

This is an excellent policy change.

The Boy Scouts teach awesome skills; a gay kid should be able to partake of that kind of education.

[garbon]

I'm sure it's great for your cause, but how many gay threads do we need.

You don't have to read them.

Besides, I don't think allowing gay members into the boy scouts really has any tangible benefits for me besides general increased tolerance for homosexuality.

[11B4V]

I'm sure it's great for your cause, but how many gay threads do we need.

You don't have to read them.

Besides, I don't think allowing gay members into the boy scouts really has any tangible benefits for me besides general increased tolerance for homosexuality.

No, they could teach you Nancys some woodcraft/survival skills. Dont sell them short.

[11B4V]

I'm sure it's great for your cause, but how many gay threads do we need.

You don't have to read them.

True, but you will all get your day in the near future.

[Caliga]

 

[katmai]

You are now free to become scout leader!

[merithyn]

Cal, you were a boy scout, weren't you? Eagle Scout, iirc. So answer this question for me:

1.) BSA said that gays were not allowed in the BSA because they're a Christian organization.
2.) There are Christians who do not believe that being gay is a sin.
3.) BSA isn't affiliated with a particular Christian church.

Am I correct on all of the above?

If I am, why haven't the Christians who have no issue with homosexuality stepped up and said so?

This is the part that gets me. I know a lot of Christians who say things like, "Well, I'm not one of those kinds of Christians. I believe in equal rights for everyone. I'm not a fundy nutjob." And yet, you never hear those people, in a Christian organization, saying, "How about we represent all Christians and not just you fundy nutjobs?"

[CountDeMoney]

I'm sure it's great for your cause, but how many gay threads do we need.

You don't have to read them.

He reads them as long as they don't act "faggy".

[citizen k]

1.) BSA said that gays were not allowed in the BSA because they're a Christian organization.

http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Awards/ReligiousAwards/chart.aspx

http://www.islamiccouncilonscouting.com/

[Martinus]

So gays are already allowed into the army and boyscouts? What's next? The KKK and neonazis?

It's laughable how we want to be a part of those patriarchal (para)military circle-jerks.

[11B4V]

So gays are already allowed into the army and boyscouts? What's next? The KKK and neonazis?

It's laughable how we want to be a part of those patriarchal (para)military circle-jerks.

The AB needs to get diversified too.

[Martinus]

So gays are already allowed into the army and boyscouts? What's next? The KKK and neonazis?

It's laughable how we want to be a part of those patriarchal (para)military circle-jerks.

The AB needs to get diversified too.

Wassat?

[11B4V]

So gays are already allowed into the army and boyscouts? What's next? The KKK and neonazis?

It's laughable how we want to be a part of those patriarchal (para)military circle-jerks.

The AB needs to get diversified too.

Wassat?

AB=Aryan Brohood