Gay rights groups say cisn by unnamed mtee was 'secretive' and not 'mocratic.'
Contents:
- BOY SUTS RENFIRM POLICY: NO GAYS ALLOWED
- BOY SUTS: NO GAYS ALLOWED
- GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
BOY SUTS RENFIRM POLICY: NO GAYS ALLOWED
July 17, 2012— -- The Boy Suts of Ameri today reaffirmed s policy to exclu gays om jog or beg lears, disappotg gay rights groups. A special mtee of Sut executiv and adult volunteers formed 2010 nclud unanimoly that the anti-gay policy was the "absolute bt" for the 112-year-old anizatn, natnal spokman Deron Smh, told The Associated said reprented "a diversy of perspectiv and opns, " but did not name the members of that mtee.
"I believe the vast majory of Sut fai do not support their policy on excludg gays, and if that is the se, they picked an awfully tertg way of affirmg that their report, " Wahls said. Supreme Court sid wh the Boy Suts of Ameri, lg 5-4 that the anizatn was exempt om state laws that bar anti-gay urt overturned a lg by the New Jersey Supreme Court to require a troop to readm a longtime gay sutmaster who had been Girl Suts of Ameri has had a diversy policy and non-discrimatn clse sce Print Herndon Graddick exprsed dismay over the cisn.
BOY SUTS: NO GAYS ALLOWED
Ary allowg gay Amerins to participate, the Boy Suts of Ameri need to fd a way to treat all children and their parents fairly, " said Graddick a prepared statement.
Gay-rights group, lled the Suts' cisn "a missed opportuny of lossal proportns. Nor do have an agenda when to gay or lbian issu.
But now Wolfe is probably not the ial Sut lear, bee he adms that he is gay. Lley Stahl reports on the Suts' policy of disallowg openly gay members, a right upheld by the U. "Some Boy Sut troops already have suffered over the no-gay policy.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
"Who are the people Texas tellg me how I have to live here Oak Park, " says Kathy to lears and supporters of Sutg Broward County, Fla., who have lost fundg and ee-of-charge accs to public facili for supportg the no-gay policy, 's a relig matter of right and wrong. "Bee [homosexualy] is a s, 's immoral, " says Schroer. The ejectn letter the Boy Suts sent to the Oak Park Suts mentned the anizatn's rpect for s relig partners as a central reason for matag s no-gay policy.
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.