Robert Gat: Boy Suts’ ban on gay adult lears not staable

Contents:

• BOY SUTS GO OM BANNG GAY PARTICIPANTS TO PARTICIPATG GAY PRI PARA 8 SHORT YEARS
• BOY SUTS MARCH SEATTLE GAY PRI PARA WH FULLY NAKED MEN — YOUNG CHILDREN AUDIENCE
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• BOY SUTS N'T WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI PARA, OFFICIAL SAYS
• BOY SUTS BAR SUTS FROM WEARG UNIFORM IN GAY PRI PARAS OR FLAG CEREMONI
• BOY SUTS FY ORRS, WEAR UNIFORMS UTAH GAY PRI PARA
• BOY SUTS MARCH IN UNIFORM AT UTAH GAY PRI PARA
• BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
• SUTS FY LEARS AT GAY PRI PARA
• BOY SUTS ON TRACK TO CHANGE POLICY AND ALLOW GAY AND LBIAN TROOP LEARS
• BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI TO OPEN RANKS TO GAY YOUTHS ON JAN. 1
• BOY SUTS DEFY ORRS BY MARCHG UNIFORM AT GAY PRI PARA
• GAY BOY SUTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• THE 2014 GAY PRI MARCH PICS (NSFW)
• GAY PRI PARA HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCIS
• BOY SUTS END BAN ON GAY LEARS, OVER PROTTS BY MORMON CHURCH
• UNIFORMED BOY SUTS MARCH UTAH GAY PRI PARA AS ALA. CHURCH BAN BSA
• BOY SUTS ARE POISED TO END BAN ON GAY LEARS
• ROBERT GAT: BOY SUTS’ BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS NOT STAABLE
• BOY SUTS MARCH SEATTLE GAY PRI PARA
• COMMENT: SHAME ON THE ASSEMBLI OF GOD FOR REJECTG THE BOY SUTS CLN OF GAY MEMBERS
• US: BOY SUT LEARS REPRIMAND FOR MARCHG WH GAY PRI PARA
• LIFTG THE BOY SUTS' BAN ON GAY LEARS

BOY SUTS GO OM BANNG GAY PARTICIPANTS TO PARTICIPATG GAY PRI PARA 8 SHORT YEARS

Back 2015, the Boy Suts of Ameri anizatn officially end s blanket ban on gay participants an effort to acrd wh the spir of the Obergefell Supreme Court cisn, which, at the time, had jt effectively legalized gay marriage throughout the Uned Stat. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWh Rabow Neckerchiefs, Celebratg Pri and Progrs at Estr/The New York TimJune 29, 2014The lor guard leadg the annual Gay Pri March down Fifth Avenue Manhattan on Sunday rried flags of sky blue, navy blue, red-whe-and-blue and rabow.

But, for the marchers, the lors that mattered most were the on they shirts, olive pants and rabow neckerchiefs: the Boy Sut uniform, pri-style — a uniform that had never been seen on a group of marchers New York Cy’s pri para had e to mark progrs — the Boy Suts of Ameri’s breakthrough vote last year to end a s-old policy of prohibg openly gay youths om beg suts — and to ll for more. “I want gay parents to have the opportuny to sut wh their children, ” said Greg Bourke, 56, who said he was forced to step down as a lear of his son’s troop Kentucky two years ago after lol Suts officials learned he was gay and threatened to revoke the troop’s charter.

BOY SUTS MARCH SEATTLE GAY PRI PARA WH FULLY NAKED MEN — YOUNG CHILDREN AUDIENCE

(In addn, a ntgent of ty Daisy Suts and Cub Suts trotted around, wavg marriage equaly flags) Knapp has spent the years sce his oter agatg for gay rights sutg, and has marched the para for years wh Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays, or Pflag, a natnal group, rryg a versn of the same sign and wearg his uniform.

”As the group passed the Stonewall Inn, the Wt Village bar known as a landmark the gay-rights movement, he and the other marchers psed and gave the Sut Brownste, a Boy Sut lear om Utah, was forced to leave his troop after marchg the Salt Lake Cy pri event last year.

”A rrectn was ma onJuly 1, 2014: An article on Monday about the annual Gay Pri March down Fifth Avenue Manhattan overstated the signifince of an uprisg 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village. While more than 130 ln Amerins have participated the Boy Suts sce s ceptn, shiftg Amerin attus have pulled fai away om the God-and-untry oaths and outdoorsy survival skills associated wh the anizatn has ma a number of progrsive chang recent 2013, the group end s ban on openly gay youths participatg s activi.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

"Brownste, 53, and a machery appraiser Salt Lake Cy, was jt startg to anize for the Utah Pri Para to be held Salt Lake Cy after last week's historic vote by the Boy Suts of Ameri to allow openly gay youth to jo the program. “Provid that someone did not ‘avow’ that they were homosexual and did not promote or advote homosexualy, … an dividual’s sexual orientatn was nsired irrelevant to membership the Boy Suts of Ameri, ” Crisis Magaze explas.

Seattle police officers were banned om marchg Boy Suts of Ameri (BSA) anizatn, found 1910, end s ban on gay participants 2015 amid the Obergefell Supreme Court cisn, which legalized gay marriage the U. WASHINGTON — A month after votg to allow gay youth to participate the Boy Suts, the group's learship warned suts this week that participatg gay pri paras uniform — even if jt to participate a flag ceremony — is agast "longstandg policy. "The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, which has been heavily volved supportg advot of clive Sutg, lled the move "worrisome" Friday — potg to Boy Suts' regular participatn ethnic herage paras, such at St.

BOY SUTS N'T WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI PARA, OFFICIAL SAYS

At s annual meetg May of 2013, the BSA’s Natnal Board, unr the “learship” of wealthy rporate-typ pletely out of touch wh grassroots Sutg valu, promoted and implemented a natnal policy to sponsor homosexuals Sut troops. Consistent wh his asslt on the moral fiber of our ary, Obama quickly gave this verbatim endorsement of homosexuals suts and lears the BSA: “I thk that, uh, you know, my attu is, is that gays and lbians should have, uh, accs, and, and, opportuny, uh, the same way everybody else do, uh, every stutn and walk of life, and, um, you know, the, the Suts are a great stutn, uh, that, are, uh, promotg, uh, young people and exposg them to, uh, you know, opportuni, and, and…” ad nseam. The BSA natnal board’s cisn to advance the lbian-gay-bisexual-transgenred ilk’s so-lled “gay pri” agenda (“gay pri” is an oxymoron), is a se study how the LBGT crowd filtrat and unrm great Amerin stutns wh s generate pathology.

Perry, a Mormon, nvced many of his fellow LDS Church members – one of the larger votg blocks of Sut Troop charterg anizatns – to support the policy change, suggtg that would be better to brg young homosexuals to the tent to surround them wh sound moral and ethil teachg than to exclu them. That sounds margally logil on s face, but two s ago, I fought a losg battle agast a tached ele at the helm of the Epispal Church USA, which promoted the acceptance of homosexuals unr a siar doctre, “love the sner.

BOY SUTS BAR SUTS FROM WEARG UNIFORM IN GAY PRI PARAS OR FLAG CEREMONI

The tragic irony is that many of the loust voic promotg the “normalizatn” of sexual viatn, cludg homosexual adults “learship rol” wh young boys, are the voic of those who were subjected to sexual predatn when they were young. For the BSA, the misguid Mormon vote, bed wh large reprentative votg blocs om the left ast and New England stat, provid majory support for the homosexual policy change and the overturng of the “morally straight” clse of the Sut Oath. And if you have any doubt that the “gay agenda” has far greater aspiratns for filtratg the Boy Suts, look no further than the California State Senate, which passed a bill to revoke the tax-exempt stat of the state’s BSA uncils, accg them of discrimatn agast homosexual adults – “gay” Sut lears.

BOY SUTS FY ORRS, WEAR UNIFORMS UTAH GAY PRI PARA

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins and their alli have been hard at work on the next great chapter of that history – om the patrons of The Stonewall Inn who sparked a movement to service members who n fally be hont about who they love to brave young people who e out and speak out every day.

BOY SUTS MARCH IN UNIFORM AT UTAH GAY PRI PARA

Boy Suts and adult volunteers wore their uniforms Sunday as they marched Utah's gay pri para — fyg a lear of the youth anizatn who had said they uldn't do so unr the anizatn's guil prohibg advotg polil or social Utah Pri Ftival Para me a ltle more than a week after natnal legat of the Boy Suts of Ameri approved allowg gay youth to jo, endg ntroversial membership guil that had recent years dogged one of the natn's most popular anizatns for children and teens. The Boy Suts of Ameri is expected to end s ban on openly gay lears a limed manner Monday, a historic cisn for one of the natn’s largt youth anizatns, whose s-long stggle over whether to clu gays s ranks has both mirrored and fueled the broar natnal bate over LGBT rights.

Over the past two s, the anizatn has been creasgly embroiled by battl over whether to ntue excludg gays, a stance that has threatened the Suts wh the specter of stly ligatn and ed some rporate sponsors, cludg Merck, UPS, Uned Way and Intel to whdraw support.

BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS

The Boy Suts has lifted s ban on openly gay lears and employe, but has allowed relig chartered anizatns, which operate more than 70 percent of the Boy Suts Sutg uns, “to e relig beliefs as creria for selectg adult lears, cludg matters of sexualy, ” acrdg to their announcement. The Boy Suts of Ameri (BSA) are on track to allow gay and lbian lears to the anizatn, after an executive mtee approved a rolutn that would elimate the standg ban agast such the newly adopted rolutn, BSA l would allow people to be troop lears regardls of their sexualy. The anizatn’s Natnal Executive Board is set to ratify the rolutn on 27 July and ments ma by the BSA print, Robert Gat, May dite that is likely to ph the policy change told a crowd at the BSA meetg Atlanta that if the anizatn upholds s ban on gay lears, “will be the end of as a natnal movement” said the changg natnal climate toward LGBT rights and mountg legal challeng agast BSA bee of the ban left the anizatn wh few other issue was rerced Monday’s announcement, which also clarified that relig-chartered groups n “ntue to choose adult lears whose beliefs are nsistent wh their own” May 2014, BSA announced that would accept openly gay young mal to the programme, but rerced s ban on LGBT adults.

SUTS FY LEARS AT GAY PRI PARA

Dpe this, groups New York and Colorado allowed gay and lbian sut the rolutn is adopted as scribed BSA documents, lears who were prevly removed bee of their sexualy uld reapply for their Suts for Equaly executive director, Zach Wahls, who has been a lear the movement to change the policy, celebrated the vote on Monday. “For s, the Boy Suts of Ameri’s ban on gay adults has stood as a towerg example of explic, stutnal homophobia one of Ameri’s most important and regnizable civic anizatns, ” he said an emailed statement.

“Today’s vote by the Boy Suts of Ameri to allow gay, lbian and bisexual adults to work and volunteer is a wele step toward erasg a sta on this important anizatn, ” said Human Rrights Campaign Print Chad Griff a statement. However, former Boy Sut learship team member Jon Langbert told CNN’s Carol Costello he believ the new policy isn’t a cure-all, sce lol troops will still be allowed to make the cisn on whether to allow gay lears. ) 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.

And to the right, the six-lor rabow flag wh is five-lor chevron, reprentg the betiful diversy of the LGBTQ+ was the dog of Gary Carroll, then the uncil’s director of field servic and chief operatg officer (and now the natn’s first openly-gay sut executive). Crisis after crisis 2020 pelled executiv to make their thoughts known on everythg om race, to climate change and gay last June, Ken Morrison, print of the Northeast Illois Council, did somethg different.

BOY SUTS ON TRACK TO CHANGE POLICY AND ALLOW GAY AND LBIAN TROOP LEARS

Defyg orrs om the untry's largt Boy Suts uncil, members and adult volunteers of the youth anizatn chose to wear their Boy Suts uniforms while marchg Utah's gay pri para last Utah Pri Ftival Para took place 10 days after the Boy Suts legat voted by 61 percent to lift the anizatn's ban on openly gay members at s annual meetg Grapeve, Great Salt Lake Council had forbidn Boy Suts members om wearg their uniforms the pri para due to the anizatn's guil, which prohib advotg a polil or social Barn, chief sut executive of the Great Salt Lake Council, which overse nearly 75, 000 youth, told NBC News that he notified certa troops that they uld not wear their uniforms the para after beg rmed of their plans by lol Sutmaster Peter Brownste, who anized some Boy Suts to march the para. "The Boy Suts who chose to march the para reportedly clud a Cub Sut, a Boy Sut, an Eagle Sut, and an Assistant Sut have argued that the tentn of havg Boy Suts march Utah's pri para was to simply foster the notn of an clive society wh the youth anizatn and to let gay members of the muny know that they are wele a group which prevly nied their admtance for 103 sent an email to The Salt Lake Tribune which noted that the new policy adopted by the Boy Suts specifilly not that Sutg may not be ed to promote sexual Smh, spokman for the Boy Suts natnal headquarters, released a statement sayg is up to the lol uncil to terme the punishment for those Suts who disobeyed orrs by wearg their uniforms the para.

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS

The announcement did not say how many board members were not policy change, which was expected, was wily seen as a watershed for an stutn that has faced growg turmoil over s stance toward gay people, even as stggl to halt a long-term cle members. That approach satisfied no one, forcg the ejectn of gay Eagle Suts when they turned 18 but still g some nservativ to Gat gave an urgent warng May that bee of sdg social and legal chang, the anizatn had no choice but to end s ban on gay lears.

The church said was “eply troubled” by the policy; there is no evince that had privately agreed to the we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Mormons Assail Boy Suts’ Shift on Gay Lears. When several uniformed Boy Suts marched Utah's gay pri para on Sunday, they were not only takg a stand for gay rights, but knowgly breakg membership qutn now is, what will the Boy Suts of Ameri do about ? Eagle Sut Kenji Mikell, 18, and several others Salt Lake Cy had been publicly warned not to wear their uniforms the para bese, the BSA said, showed support for gay rights, a stance behd which the BSA do not stand.

"It jt feels like the right thg to do, " Mikell told NBC jt before his participatn, which me a ltle more than a week after many members of the BSA voted wh grted teeth to allow openly gay youth to the anizatn. "We will support the Greater Salt Lake Area Council as they terme the appropriate rponse, " Smh Utah cint as many others have yet to accept the BSA's cisn to openly allow gay suts, particularly parts of the untry like of last week, some Alabama church that have long provid space for troop meetgs have rcd their offer followg the BSA's cisn.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI TO OPEN RANKS TO GAY YOUTHS ON JAN. 1

They're tellg the boys to fd somewhere else to the Gravel Ridge Baptist Church and the First Baptist Church of Helena reasoned that they would not support a group that go agast the Bible's preachg on gay suts' cisn to march after at least two Alabama church revoked their facily's e to the Boy Suts of Ameri after the natnal cisn to allow openly gay members. AdvertisementSKIP Estr/The New York TimJuly 26, 2015The Boy Suts of Ameri is expected on Monday to end s blanket ban on gay lears — a turng pot for an anizatn that has been turmoil over the some sutg groups will still be able to lim learship jobs to ga the acquicence of nservative relig groups that sponsor many packs and troops, like the Mormon and Roman Catholic Church, the policy will allow church-n uns to pick lears who agree wh their moral precepts. Conservative partners saw the policy as a bulwark agast unwanted social change, but the anti-gay stance was stg the Boy Suts public support and chet as well as rporate funrs, and lately had brought the threat of stly a ntent meetg 2013, the Suts cid to perm participatn by gay youths but not adults.

BOY SUTS DEFY ORRS BY MARCHG UNIFORM AT GAY PRI PARA

On Monday, bowg to shifts opn and law, the Suts will relax their policy barrg openly gay adults om servg as n lears, sutmasters and mp Suts will also on Monday bar discrimatn based on sexual orientatn all official facili and payg jobs across the untry, headg off potential to keep some of the larger church sponsors the fold, Sut executiv nclud that they mt allow for diverse polici for lol volunteers. Church-based uns may “ntue to choose adult lears whose beliefs are nsistent wh their own, ” acrdg to a statement that the Suts’ top executiv sent this month to regnal board step, if plete the view of many gay rights mpaigners, is nohels a momento one for an anizatn that has stggled to keep the allegiance of nservativ as faced open rebelln om more liberal proposal followed a public warng May by Robert M.

GAY BOY SUTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

A., served as fense secretary, and oversaw the end of the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay service the ary — has won praise for actg cisively to rolve a nflict that threatened to acture the Zalki/Associated Prs“Bee of his history, he was a posn to exercise learship on this issue, ” said Zach Wahls, 24, an Eagle Sut and executive director of Suts for Equaly, which has mounted public mpaigns for change. In a 5-to-4 cisn, the urt said the Suts had the right to force out a gay assistant sutmaster bee the private anizatn’s stance that homosexualy was not “morally straight” was part of the group’s “exprsive msage.

At the same time, the share of relig sponsors climbed, and the Suts began attractg more nservative fai, said Richard Ellis, a polil scientist at Willamette Universy Salem, Ore., and thor of the 2014 book “Judgg the Boy Suts of Ameri: Gay Rights, Freedom of Associatn and the Dale Case.

But gay rights groups like Glaad and Suts for Equaly helped publicize s of discrimatn and ph several major rporate donors, cludg Intel, Uned Parcel Service and Merck, to whdraw their 2013, the natnal learship proposed what proved to be an illory middle ground — to perm gay youths, a ls sensive issue wh nservativ, but to ntue to ban openly gay change brought ltle peace. Gat said the Boy Suts mt quickly change before the urts ma them do the vote to perm gay youths 2013, some evangelil Christian church end their sponsorships, and membership cled by 6 percent, pared wh cl up to 4 percent prev years. The Boy Suts of Ameri mt reverse s longstandg policy of excludg gay adult lears or risk unfavorable legal cisns that uld doom the historic anizatn, s print, Robert Gat, warned his group’s natnal learship Thursday.

THE 2014 GAY PRI MARCH PICS (NSFW)

Secretary of Defense said a legal fight uld put the BSA the same vulnerable posn the armed forc faced at the end of “Don’t ask, don’t tell, ” a policy that barred openly gay dividuals om servg the ary.

“While our work won’t be done until we see a full end to their ban on gay adults once and for all, today’s announcement is a signifint step that directn, ” Suts for Equaly executive director Zach Wahls said a statement. Pastor Dave Thompson wr for PkNews on the recent rejectn of the Boy Suts of Ameri by the Assembli of God Church, followg the BSA’s new policy which will allow openly gay members to serve the anisatn om 1 January 2014.

GAY PRI PARA HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCIS

I joed the Cub Suts when I was 6 years old and I was lucky enough to have my two moms be a part of my sutg experience, and today’s cisn is gog to make sure that both gay suts and gay adults across the untry don’t have to be aaid anymore. ”"I joed the Cub Suts when I was 6 years old and I was lucky enough to have my two moms be a part of my sutg experience and today’s cisn is gog to make sure that both gay suts and gay adults across the untry don’t have to be aaid anymore.

BOY SUTS END BAN ON GAY LEARS, OVER PROTTS BY MORMON CHURCH

"Zach Wahls“Unfortunately, the Boy Suts membership has been locked a sli sce 2000 when the Boy Suts went to the Supreme Court to fend their ban on gay members and actually won wh the right to ntue to fend that ban. And you’re absolutely right, there was a somewhat larger than normal loss 2013 after they end their ban on gay youth, but actually wasn’t much greater than the stctural loss that the Boy Suts have been seeg sce 2000.

”On changg the anizatn's reputatn“Ever sce the Boy Suts went to the Supreme Court to fend this ban, there have been a lot of people who associate the Boy Suts first and foremost wh homophobia and wh discrimatn, and so of urse that’s not gog to do good thgs for their reputatn.

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UNIFORMED BOY SUTS MARCH UTAH GAY PRI PARA AS ALA. CHURCH BAN BSA

BOY SUTS ARE POISED TO END BAN ON GAY LEARS

ROBERT GAT: BOY SUTS’ BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS NOT STAABLE

BOY SUTS MARCH SEATTLE GAY PRI PARA

COMMENT: SHAME ON THE ASSEMBLI OF GOD FOR REJECTG THE BOY SUTS CLN OF GAY MEMBERS

US: BOY SUT LEARS REPRIMAND FOR MARCHG WH GAY PRI PARA

LIFTG THE BOY SUTS' BAN ON GAY LEARS