Gay Boy Suts - What Happened to the BSA? | Human Life Internatnal

Contents:

• CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY BOY SUTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• CONFSNS OF A GAY BOY SUT
• BOY SUTS CONSIRG LIFTG BAN ON GAY SUTS, LEARS
• SOME CHURCH SAY THEY'LL CUT TI TO BOY SUTS FOLLOWG ITS LIFTG BAN ON GAY SUTS

CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY

“Bob is 15 years old, and the only openly gay Sut a Boy Sut troop. At his board of review Tom reveals that he is gay.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

” The are some of the qutns on a survey beg nducted by the Boy Suts of Ameri as the private youth anizatn prepar to ci whether should end s ntroversial policy banng gay Suts and lears.

But this time, the BSA ed the survey to add qutns about the policy banng gays (those qutns went only to adults) spokman Deron Smh, who provid the qutns on the survey to NBC News, said an email that “the BSA is mted to dialogue on the topic of s membership standards policy, wh the Sutg fay at the lol and natnal levels. The Boy Suts’ policy has creasgly been a sore spot for the anizatn over the last year, followg the dismissal of a n lear bee she is a lbian and the nial of the Eagle Sut rank to a California teen bee he is gay.

Tristam HarrgtonWhen the BSA announced late January that may dch the natnal policy and stead let lol sponsorg anizatns ci if gays n jo, the anizatn received a flood of rpons om both sis. The Boy Suts have asked for the surveys to be returned by April BSA also asked if the currently policy was a “re value” of Sutg and if rponnts would leave the BSA if a cisn was ma that disagreed wh their qutns on the survey clu:A gay male troop lear, along wh another adult lear, is takg a group of boys on a mpg trip followg the youth protectn guil of two-ep learship.

BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO

Is acceptable or unacceptable for the gay adult lear to take adolcent boys on an overnight mpg trip?

A troop is chartered by an anizatn that do not believe homosexualy is wrong and allows gays to be misters. The ngregatn hir a youth mister who is gay.

Johnny’s pack is chartered to a church where the doctre of that fah do not teach that homosexualy is wrong. David, a Boy Sut, believ that homosexualy is wrong. His troop is chartered to a church where the doctre of that fah also teach that homosexualy is wrong.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Steve, an openly gay youth, appli to be a member the troop and is nied membership. Related stori: Boy Suts: We need more time for cisn on gay SutsAfter years of heartache, gay Suts and supporters react warily over proposal to lift ban'Gravely distrsed': Relign looms large over Boy Suts cisn on gays 'BATTLESTATIONS! ': Call- war waged over Boy Suts' ban on gays.

What about gays jog the Suts? From s foundg, the group had a strict policy: No openly gay members.

“Boy Suts of Ameri, ” the group said, “believ that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the obligatns the Sut Oath and Sut Law to be morally straight and clean thought, word and ed.

GAY BOY SUTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

) The advent of the Obama admistratn led to several polici aimed at improvg the liv of gays and lbians, and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that banned openly gay men, lbians and bisexuals om ary service was overturned same year, the Boy Suts of Ameri executive board began what would bee a two-year review of s policy on gays. But 2013, as the group faced cricism om lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights groups that assailed as phg discrimatory polici, the Boy Suts formally announced an end to s ban on gay Suts. What about gay adult lears?

This created a nundm: Once a gay boy turned 18, he would be barred om the was the challenge facg Pasl Tsier. In 2014, Tsier, a 17-year-old om Maryland, beme the first openly gay Eagle Sut.

Gat, who served unr Print Obama when “don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed, urged the group to end s ban on gay lears. Eventually, the executive board sid wh Gat and voted that year to end the policy on gay adult lears.

CONFSNS OF A GAY BOY SUT

Wahls, who found Suts for Equaly, a nonprof group that advot for stronger protectns the anizatn for gay and transgenr people, ld the move. Later, 2015, lifted s ban on gay sutmasters, spe the anizatn’s history of sexual abe by the same. BSA Embrac Homosexual Suts and Sutmasters.

In 1990, the BSA revoked Jam Dale’s volvement on the grounds that homosexuals were banned om membership. At the time, the BSA stated that havg gay Sutmasters ntradicted the Sut Oath keepg s members “morally straight. In 2013, the Boy Suts cid to adm openly gay Suts.

In 2015, the ban on gay Sutmasters was lifted. In fact, BSA dit a whole paragraph s Sut or Sutmaster eligibily requirements to those who have homosexual clatns.

BOY SUTS CONSIRG LIFTG BAN ON GAY SUTS, LEARS

In jt a ltle over a , BSA pletely reversed s valu regardg homosexual members. The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms homosexualy, the clatn of beg sexually attracted to the same sex, is herently disorred (CCC 2357). The Boy Suts of Ameri, changg s polici to clu homosexuals, opened Pandora’s box.

An all-male anizatn cludg gays should have secured the protectn and safety of the young Suts participatg the BSA.

SOME CHURCH SAY THEY'LL CUT TI TO BOY SUTS FOLLOWG ITS LIFTG BAN ON GAY SUTS

Boy Suts will allow gay youth to jo. The suts will mata a ban on openly gay adult lears. Openly gay youths will be allowed to jo sutg, a historic cisn the Boy Suts of Ameri says will keep uncloud by “a sgle, divisive, and unrolved societal issue.