Openly Gay Lear: Boy Suts Won't Exist If Discrimatn Contu : NPR

Contents:

• BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY SUT LEARS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• HEAD OF BOY SUTS SAYS GROUP'S BAN ON GAY ADULTS 'UNSTAABLE'
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• OPENLY GAY LEAR: BOY SUTS WON'T EXIST IF DISCRIMATN CONTU

BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

The executive mtee of the Boy Suts of Ameri has unanimoly adopted a rolutn that would allow gay adults to serve as Sut lears, endg a longstandg ban on gay lears the anizatn. " The move months after Robert Gat, the print of the Boy Suts of Ameri, lled on the anizatn to reasss s ban on gay adults, sayg, "We mt al wh the world as is, not as we might wish to be.

" He also told NPR "gays would be permted uns that want to have them, " but church that sponsor Sut uns would be allowed to exercise their relig eedom and ensure lears troops they sponsor, or uns that they sponsor, reflect the fah of the sponsorg stutn. The BSA voted 2013 to allow gay members, but not sutmasters.

Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday would lift s ban on gay lears. The Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday that ’s liftg the ban on gay adults as Sut lears. “On Monday July 27 the natnal executive board ratified a rolutn removg the natnal rtrictn on openly gay lears and employe, ” Boy Suts of Ameri Print Robert Gat said a vio statement on Monday.

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS

Boy Suts move closer to endg ban on gay lears. “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, the admissn of openly gay lears is nsistent wh the doctr of the Church and what have tradnally been the valu of the Boy Suts of Ameri. Gat lled for the Suts to end s ban on gay adults remarks (PDF) at the anizatn’s natnal bs meetg, held May 21.

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. ” asked Langbert, who is openly gay and says he gave up his learship role when other fathers plaed.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY SUT LEARS

“It creat a b of a ms when you don’t have one global policy for the Suts, ” Langbert add, notg that the natnal anizatn allows gay adults as employe.

Gay youths have been allowed the Boy Suts sce 2013. The Boy Suts of Ameri relented to unprecented prsure on Monday and lifted s natnal ban on gay adult lears, pavg the way for historic change — and bate — wh the historic vote shifts the specter of discrimatn onto lol sut groups and those sponsored by relig anizatns, which reta the right to set their own polici on whether they'll allow gay men to lead 's vote by the group's 71-member board followed an impassned plea May by the Boy Suts Print Robert Gat, a former U. "The admissn of openly gay lears is nsistent wh the doctr of the Church and what have tradnally been the valu of the Boy Suts of Ameri.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

"They've taken a good step forward the nversatn about acmodatns, " he Suts' 17-member executive mtee earlier this month unanimoly approved a rolutn to end a blanket ban on gay adult lears and let dividual sut uns set their own policy on the long-divisive issue.

Wh Monday's vote, the change be official policy, effective Suts' ban on gay adults saw s first major challenge last April when New York Attorney General Eric Schneirman opened an quiry to the Boy Suts' hirg practic after the natnal anizatn said would review the Boy Suts' Greater New York Councils' hirg of Pasl Tsier to work a summer mp.

Tsier was the first openly gay Amerin to bee an Eagle Sut, the hight rank.

HEAD OF BOY SUTS SAYS GROUP'S BAN ON GAY ADULTS 'UNSTAABLE'

In 2013, allowed openly gay youth to be suts, but stopped short of allowg gay adults to be, who beme the anizatn's natnal print May 2014, said at the time that he personally would have favored endg the ban, but that he opposed batg after the Suts' policy-makg body upheld . "He also ced broar velopments related to gay rights, and warned that rigidly matag the ban "will be the end of as a natnal movement. The Boy Suts, he said, "fds self an unstaable posn" regardg the revokg charters of uncils that allowed gay lears would be allowed unr the current policy, he said, "such an actn would ny the lifelong benefs of sutg to hundreds of thoands of boys and young men today and vastly more the future.

The erng body of the Boy Suts of Ameri voted Monday to end s s-long ban on gay sut anizatn's natnal executive board, meetg Texas, nclud that the policy of excludg gay adults "was no longer legally fensible.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

" The cisn was approved by 79 percent of the the natnal ban is gone, effective immediately, lol sutg uns reta the abily to reject gay applints for learship posns if hirg them would vlate the un's relig Boy Suts natnal anizatn said would fend any lol sutg group's "good fah refal" to adm a sutg lear based upon the group's relig prcipl. "The vote reprents a remarkably fast turnaround for the Boy Suts, which only two years ago voted to adm gay young people as suts but kept the ban on adult gay sut then, sutg officials have said, rapidly movg legal velopments forced a told the anizatn May that mt brace for change.

"The vote allowg lol uns to turn away gay lears was nmned by some former Sut lears as a timid measure that would allow discrimatn to McGrah, a gay adult lear om wh the Transatlantic Council of Boy Suts of Ameri, lled the vote "an expedient move to preempt legal actn agast BSA natnal, rather than a genue attempt to make BSA clive. "John Stemberger, a Florida lawyer who started a breakaway anizatn lled Trail Life USA after the 2013 vote to adm gay Suts, said by endg the natnal ban on gay sut lears, the Boy Suts "plac the church and relig stutns who sponsor BSA troops at greater legal risk.

OPENLY GAY LEAR: BOY SUTS WON'T EXIST IF DISCRIMATN CONTU

But some church have been openly cril of the ban on gay sut lears. Supreme Court upheld the Suts' right to exclu an assistant sutmaster, Jam Dale, after he me out as gay. "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 Rights Campaign Print Chad Griff a statement after the vote.

Robert Gat, the print of the Boy Suts of Ameri, says the anizatn mt reasss s ban on gay adults, sayg, "We mt al wh the world as is, not as we might wish to be.

" Gat ced his experience wh a California urt's cisn that sparked the end of the ary's so-lled don't ask, don't tell policy, which banned gays the servic, and said the Boy Suts of Ameri mt act before is pelled to do so by the urts. This isn't the first time Gat has raised the issue of the anizatn's ban on gay sutmasters. He spoke about last year soon after he beme the BSA print when he said that while he would have supported hirg gay sutmasters, he would "oppose any effort to reopen this issue" bee such a move uld divi the anizatn.