The Boy Suts of Ameri is expected to end s ban on openly gay lears a limed manner Monday, a historic cisn for one of the natn's largt youth anizatns, whose s-long stggle over whether to clu gays s ranks has both mirrored and fueled the broar natnal bate over LGBT rights.
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BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
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The Boy Suts of Ameri is expected to end s ban on openly gay lears a limed manner Monday, a historic cisn for one of the natn’s largt youth anizatns, whose s-long stggle over whether to clu gays s ranks has both mirrored and fueled the broar natnal bate over LGBT rights.
The Suts’ current adult learship standards policy prohibs membership to “dividuals who are open or avowed homosexuals. Over the past two s, the anizatn has been creasgly embroiled by battl over whether to ntue excludg gays, a stance that has threatened the Suts wh the specter of stly ligatn and ed some rporate sponsors, cludg Merck, UPS, Uned Way and Intel to whdraw support. In 2013, the Suts cid to allow gay youths to participate sutg, a policy that took effect the followg year.
Secretary of Defense, ed a speech at the Boy Suts’ annual natnal meetg this year to ll on the anizatn to repeal the ban on openly gay adults. In his speech, Gat said that a number of factors, cludg potential discrimatn lawsus, ternal disput over the policy and the impendg Supreme Court gay marriage cisn had nvced him that the le was untenable. Later, 2015, lifted s ban on gay sutmasters, spe the anizatn’s history of sexual abe by the same.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
Jt over one year after liftg s ban on gay employe, the Boy Suts of Ameri announced would accept transgenr suts. * lgbt boy scouts *
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. The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms homosexualy, the clatn of beg sexually attracted to the same sex, is herently disorred (CCC 2357).
Radil leftists tly stroyed the Boy Suts. It started small, wh the ph to allow for gay sutmasters, which was succsful. Of urse, that wasn’t enough, and eventually, the Boy Sut... * lgbt boy scouts *
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 anizatn moved to allow openly gay Suts 2013 and troop lears 2015.
However, some of the anizatn’s early methods for reachg out to margalized groups provi potential solutns for better rporatg gay and transgenr boys and clive troop sponsors. Conservative groups argue that the recent gay/trans-clive polici – and the proposal to open the BSA to girls – betray the anizatn’s valu and foundg prcipl. Yet, natnally, the BSA has repeatedly fied crics by enuragg lol uncils to wele a growg range of culturally margalized troops and boys – om non-Prottant, immigrant and Ain-Amerin boys the 1910s to transgenr and gay boys 100 years later.