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Contents:

• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
• BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
• BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

But the summer of 1990, Dale received a letter rmg him that his membership had been revoked, simply bee he was gay. Dpe Dale’s 12-year relatnship wh the Boy Suts, the anizatn severed their ti wh him after learng of a news article that intified him as the -print of his universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance. In a 5-4 cisn, the Supreme Court narrowly affirmed the Boy Suts right to ny membership to openly gay dividuals.

On July 27, a full 25 years after they revoked Dale’s membership, the anizatn announced would extend membership to openly gay lears. This after the Boy Suts’ move two years ago to lift s ban on membership to gay youth. The cisn was an important step, but bee left the ban place for openly gay lears, was an unsatisfyg one.

More troublgly, though, the hatn also perpetuated the historic and homophobic perceptn of gay adults as promiscuo dividuals wh nefar tentns.

CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY

The recent cisn to fally end the ban on openly gay lears should, therefore, be celebrated. Although is now possible for gay lears to serve openly the Boys Suts of Ameri, dog so is still jt that: a possibily, not a guarantee. The Boy Suts has lifted s ban on openly gay lears and employe, but has allowed relig chartered anizatns, which operate more than 70 percent of the Boy Suts Sutg uns, “to e relig beliefs as creria for selectg adult lears, cludg matters of sexualy, ” acrdg to their announcement.

BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS

The Boy Suts’ exemptns thereby mata rtrictns on pable and willg gay lears.

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

BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

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.

BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS

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.

BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO

An all-male anizatn cludg gays should have secured the protectn and safety of the young Suts participatg the BSA. “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. 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.