Boy Suts of Ameri Vot to Allow Gay Sut Lears

Contents:

• BOY SUTS ON TRACK TO CHANGE POLICY AND ALLOW GAY AND LBIAN TROOP LEARS
• BOY SUTS BOOT OPENLY GAY SUT LEAR
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI TO ALLOW GAY ADULT LEARS; CHURCH-N UNS N KEEP THE EXCLN
• BOY SUTS’ PRINT CALLS FOR END TO BAN ON GAY LEARS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS

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

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. 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.

BOY SUTS BOOT OPENLY GAY SUT LEAR

“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.

“While this policy change is not perfect – BSA’s relig charterg partners will be allowed to ntue to discrimate agast gay adults – is difficult to overstate the importance of today’s announcement. 6, 2013 file photo, om left, Joshua Kterer, 12, Nach Mschke, 6, and Wyatt Mschke, 4, salute as they rece the pledge of allegiance durg the “Save Our Suts” prayer vigil and rally agast allowg gays the anizatn ont of the Boy Suts of Ameri Natnal Headquarters Dallas, Texas. 12, 2014 that lost 6 percent of s membership after an often-bisg year which announced would accept openly gay boys for the first time, over the objectns of some participants who eventually left the anizatn.

(AP Photo/Richard Rodriguez, File)An openly gay Boy Suts troop lear Washgton state was abptly removed om his post for "liberately jectg" his sexualy to the job, the Boy Suts of Ameri announced on McGrath, sutmaster of Seattle's Troop 98, was beg profiled by NBC News when the anizatn said was severg ti wh him. “The Natnal Council has revoked his registratn, ” Smh ’s believed McGrath is the first lear to lose his posn sce the Boy Suts of Ameri changed s policy last year, votg to allow gay suts but not gay sut lears.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

McGrath, whose charter applitn for a new troop through the Raier Beach Uned Methodist Church was approved last fall, said he didn't hi his orientatn and that the Boy Suts knew about his open support of gay rights.

Announced would cut fundg to the Boy Suts of Ameri begng 2015 over the ban on openly gay sut lears. McGrath was believed to be the only openly gay sutmaster Ameri — until Monday. “They are plag that [beg openly gay] is a distractn to Sutg and they don’t seem to unrstand that the distractn is self-flicted.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

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. " 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.

BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

"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. 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. Later, 2015, lifted s ban on gay sutmasters, spe the anizatn’s history of sexual abe by the same.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI TO ALLOW GAY ADULT LEARS; CHURCH-N UNS N KEEP THE EXCLN

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. In jt a ltle over a , BSA pletely reversed s valu regardg homosexual members.

BOY SUTS’ PRINT CALLS FOR END TO BAN ON GAY LEARS

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. 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.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS

The BSA voted 2013 to allow gay members, but not sutmasters.

NEW YORK – The Boy Suts of Ameri has end s blanket ban on gay adult lears but will allow church-sponsored Sut uns to mata the excln for relig new policy, aimed at easg a ntroversy that has embroiled the Boy Suts for years, tak effect immediately. "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, " said a statement om Mormon headquarters Salt Lake ntrast, the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal LGBT-rights anizatn, said the Boy Suts should not allow church-sponsored uns to ntue excludg gays.