An explaer on how the group has evolved w/ social issu over the years (ie. allowg gays, gay lears, now transgenr, etc.)
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?
- OP-ED: MY LIFE AS A GAY BOY SUT
- BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
- BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
* boy gay 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. * boy gay 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? 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 cisn uld impact the eligibily of thoands of young men and women an anizatn that had voted to allow gay teens to jo. * boy gay 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.
Related stori: Boy Suts: We need more time for cisn on gay SutsAfter years of heartache, gay Suts and supporters react warily over proposal to lift ban'Gravely distrsed': Relign looms large over Boy Suts cisn on gays 'BATTLESTATIONS! ': Call- war waged over Boy Suts' ban on gays. The erng body of the Boy Suts of Ameri voted Monday to end s s-long ban on gay sut lears.The 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 board.While 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 beliefs.The 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."This change allows Sutg's members and parents to select lol uns, chartered by anizatns wh siar beliefs, that bt meet the needs of their fai," said a statement om the Suts' learship."For far too long this issue has divid and distracted ," former Defense Secretary Robert Gat, Sutg's current print, said a statement.
"Now 's time to une behd our shared belief the extraordary power of Sutg to be a force for good a muny and the liv of s youth members."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 lears.Sce then, sutg officials have said, rapidly movg legal velopments forced a reasssment.Gat told the anizatn May that mt brace for change."We mt al wh the world as is, not as we might wish to be. The stat quo our movement's membership standards nnot be staed."Nearly half the stat now have laws prohibg discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, and almost 150 lol ernments have adopted siar provisns.Gay adults rejected as sut lears have threatened to sue, and New York's attorney general opened an vtigatn of the employment policy at the Boy Suts of Ameri."It would be a losg effort," says an ternal Boy Suts of Ameri memo obtaed by NBC News, "for the BSA to ntue protectg s policy." The memo nclus that "a protracted legal battle ...
BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
Is unwnable."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 ntue.Peter 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."Roughly 70 percent of lol sutg uns are sponsored by relig anizatns. But some church have been openly cril of the ban on gay sut lears.Fifteen years ago, the U.S.
Supreme Court upheld the Suts' right to exclu an assistant sutmaster, Jam Dale, after he me out as gay. That's fely the wrong msage for the Boy Suts of Ameri."Other rights anizatns also noted that Monday's move was perhaps only a half step."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 TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
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). The Boy Suts of Ameri, changg s polici to clu homosexuals, opened Pandora’s box.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
An all-male anizatn cludg gays should have secured the protectn and safety of the young Suts participatg the BSA. What about gays jog the Suts?
From s foundg, the group had a strict policy: No openly gay members. “Boy Suts of Ameri, ” the group said, “believ that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the obligatns the Sut Oath and Sut Law to be morally straight and clean thought, word and ed.
) The advent of the Obama admistratn led to several polici aimed at improvg the liv of gays and lbians, and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that banned openly gay men, lbians and bisexuals om ary service was overturned same year, the Boy Suts of Ameri executive board began what would bee a two-year review of s policy on gays.