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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.

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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. * bsa lgbt *

Many people have asked whether this award is still necsary, given that the BSA end their blanket ban on gay adults July of 2015. The other rope is rabow-lored – a pattern that is reprentative of diversy general and is ed wily the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muni as a symbol of pri and uny. 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. 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.

BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS

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... * bsa lgbt *

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).

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

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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. As of 2014, no youth member (unr 18 years old) of any BSA program n be expelled simply for beg gay, lbian, or bisexual.

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS

District, uncil, natnal) n be expelled simply for beg gay, lbian, or bisexual. Did the Boy Suts have a legal right to exclu gay people om learship and membership posns for so long? In the sprg of 2015, Pasl Tsier – an openly gay man – was hired by the Greater New York Councils for a summer mp posn, spe of the natnal policy.

Had the BSA fired him, many people believe that their actns would have been vlatn of New York State Law and that ’s unlikely that the BSA would have been able to succsfully fend their ban on gay employe urt. The problems that gay adolcents experience are the rults of isolatn and social disapproval, and many siar “safe space” projects (often g stickers on classroom doors, lockers, etc. Beg secretly gay themselv).

If spicn of beg gay uld rult your child beg bullied, then there may be eper ncerns about their Sutg peers and environment. Early 2012, Jennifer Tyrrell was removed om her son’s Cub Sut Pack bee she was gay. In the fall of 2012, Ryan Andren was nied his Eagle Award for beg gay.

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

The Gay, Lbian, Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) has already veloped age-appropriate rourc for young people gras K-12. Jt over one year after liftg s ban on gay employe, the Boy Suts of Ameri has announced will accept transgenr boys as members of s sutg chapters natnwi. "The Human Rights Campaign appld the cisn but lled on BSA to extend to “full LGBTQ cln for both employe and volunteers, ” notg that the policy change allowg gay employe and volunteers did not extend to transgenr adults.

It started small, wh the ph to allow for gay sutmasters, which was succsful.

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