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Contents:
- CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
- GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
- BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
- OP-ED: MY LIFE AS A GAY BOY SUT
- BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- CONFSNS OF A GAY BOY SUT
- BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
- WATCH: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A GAY BOY SUT COM OUT TO HIS CAMP LEAR
CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
The cisn uld impact the eligibily of thoands of young men and women an anizatn that had voted to allow gay teens to jo. * gay boys scout *
“Bob is 15 years old, and the only openly gay Sut a Boy Sut troop. At his board of review Tom reveals that he is gay. ” The are some of the qutns on a survey beg nducted by the Boy Suts of Ameri as the private youth anizatn prepar to ci whether should end s ntroversial policy banng gay Suts and lears.
But this time, the BSA ed the survey to add qutns about the policy banng gays (those qutns went only to adults) spokman Deron Smh, who provid the qutns on the survey to NBC News, said an email that “the BSA is mted to dialogue on the topic of s membership standards policy, wh the Sutg fay at the lol and natnal levels.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
Gay thor Christopher Bram reunts how sutg helped him make through adolcence and disver his te self. * gay boys scout *
The Boy Suts’ policy has creasgly been a sore spot for the anizatn over the last year, followg the dismissal of a n lear bee she is a lbian and the nial of the Eagle Sut rank to a California teen bee he is gay.
Tristam HarrgtonWhen the BSA announced late January that may dch the natnal policy and stead let lol sponsorg anizatns ci if gays n jo, the anizatn received a flood of rpons om both sis. The Boy Suts have asked for the surveys to be returned by April BSA also asked if the currently policy was a “re value” of Sutg and if rponnts would leave the BSA if a cisn was ma that disagreed wh their qutns on the survey clu:A gay male troop lear, along wh another adult lear, is takg a group of boys on a mpg trip followg the youth protectn guil of two-ep learship. Is acceptable or unacceptable for the gay adult lear to take adolcent boys on an overnight mpg trip?
BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
Openly gay youths will be allowed to jo sutg, a historic cisn the Boy Suts of Ameri says will keep uncloud by “a sgle, divisive, and unrolved societal issue.” * gay boys scout *
A troop is chartered by an anizatn that do not believe homosexualy is wrong and allows gays to be misters.
The ngregatn hir a youth mister who is gay. Johnny’s pack is chartered to a church where the doctre of that fah do not teach that homosexualy is wrong.
OP-ED: MY LIFE AS A GAY BOY SUT
The erng body of the Boy Suts of Ameri voted Monday to end s s-long ban on gay sut lears. * gay boys scout *
David, a Boy Sut, believ that homosexualy is wrong. His troop is chartered to a church where the doctre of that fah also teach that homosexualy is wrong.
Steve, an openly gay youth, appli to be a member the troop and is nied membership.
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BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
Ok I adm I too have lived the life of a gay boy sut. I loved my time suts. You n image the disappotment when suts show themselv as bigots * gay boys scout *
': Call- war waged over Boy Suts' ban on gays. 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.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
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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.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
An explaer on how the group has evolved w/ social issu over the years (ie. allowg gays, gay lears, now transgenr, etc.) * gay boys scout *
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. 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.
CONFSNS OF A GAY BOY SUT
An all-male anizatn cludg gays should have secured the protectn and safety of the young Suts participatg the BSA. Those standards clu barrg “open or avowed” gay adults om jog and have been at the center of a ntroversy that has roiled one of Ameri’s most popular youth anizatns for BSA’s Natnal Executive Board Febary ma the cisn a rolutn lowerg the eligibily age such programs as the high-adventure -ed Venturg program, Sea Suts and the Orr of the Arrow, the Boy Suts’ Natnal Honor Society, Smh said. After last year’s ntroversial ballot to allow gay youth, gay Boy Suts believed they uld ntue on om that program at 18 to Venturg or the Sea Suts program and rema a member the Suts and tw brothers Augt and Liam Easton-Calabria, om left, pose for a portra their home Seattle, Wash., on March 27, 2014.
Liam is a gay teen. After that “young people who are 18 but not yet 21, will be required to register as adults but may still participate those programs, ” he Boy Suts have grappled wh their policy banng gays for years. In a live webst jt before the ballot to allow gay youth was held last May, BSA lears said gay teens uld still participate the programs that fe olr boys as up to, but not yet, then, the Natnal Council voted to accept the new youth membership standards which said participatn was “open to all youth who meet the specific membership requirements to jo the Cub Sut, Boy Sut, Varsy Sut, Sea Sut, and Venturg programs.
BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
”Liam Easton-Calabria, an 18-year-old openly gay Eagle Sut Venturg said the cisn was “like a slap the face.
”Zach Wahls, -founr of Suts for Equaly, which advot for cln of gays Sutg, said his group was “eply disappoted this cisn and fear for the gay youth who thought they were safe and will now be removed om Sutg unr this new, ill-advised le. I was also gay, although I didn't know yet.
Barber more than were only a few gay ditors my life when I was young. The new lears laid down a set of rigid l agast not jt homosexualy but atheism. Begng wh Jam Dale back 1990, a handful of heroic gay suts, often wh the support of their fai, challenged the antigay polici.
WATCH: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A GAY BOY SUT COM OUT TO HIS CAMP LEAR
It's silly that gay people n now be the ary but not the Boy Suts. Next week the natnal anizatn will fally vote on a proposal to allow gay boys to serve -- jt boys, not adults. The learship is argug wh self, addrsg the antigay factn who fear sexual predators.