The cisn uld impact the eligibily of thoands of young men and women an anizatn that had voted to allow gay teens to jo.
Contents:
- BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
- BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
- 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 TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
- BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
- BOY SUTS VS. GAYS
- BOY SUTS: Y TO GAYS, NO TO ATHEISTS
- WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
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. * boy scouts and gays *
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.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
The erng body of the Boy Suts of Ameri voted Monday to end s s-long ban on gay sut lears. * boy scouts and gays *
The Suts’ current adult learship standards policy prohibs membership to “dividuals who are open or avowed homosexuals.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
* boy scouts and gays *
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.
BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
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.” * boy scouts and gays *
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. But the summer of 1990, Dale received a letter rmg him that his membership had been revoked, simply bee he was gay.
CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
An explaer on how the group has evolved w/ social issu over the years (ie. allowg gays, gay lears, now transgenr, etc.) * boy scouts and gays *
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.
BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
The Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday that ’s liftg the ban on gay adults as Sut lears. * boy scouts and gays *
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.
BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
More troublgly, though, the hatn also perpetuated the historic and homophobic perceptn of gay adults as promiscuo dividuals wh nefar tentns. 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. The erng body of the Boy Suts of Ameri voted Monday to end s s-long ban on gay sut anizatn's natnal executive board, meetg Texas, nclud that the policy of excludg gay adults "was no longer legally fensible.
BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
" The cisn was approved by 79 percent of the 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 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. "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 then, sutg officials have said, rapidly movg legal velopments forced a told the anizatn May that mt brace for change.
"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 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.
BOY SUTS VS. GAYS
"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.
BOY SUTS: Y TO GAYS, NO TO ATHEISTS
Supreme Court upheld the Suts' right to exclu an assistant sutmaster, Jam Dale, after he me out as gay.
"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.
WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
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 fact, BSA dit a whole paragraph s Sut or Sutmaster eligibily requirements to those who have homosexual clatns. 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.