Boy Suts of Ameri Vot to Allow Gay Sut Lears

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.

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS

" 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.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY SUT 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 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.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

“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.

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

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.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

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

“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.

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

"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. "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. 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.