The Boy Suts of Ameri's Natnal Executive Board will meet July 27 to ratify the rolutn to end the longstandg ban on gay Sut lears.
Contents:
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI TO ALLOW GAY ADULT LEARS; CHURCH-N UNS N KEEP THE EXCLN
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI LIFTS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS
- BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
- GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
- THE BOY SUTS AND THEIR POLICY AGAST GAY LEARS
- BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
- BOY SUTS LIFT BLANKET BAN ON GAY LEARS, WILL ALLOW EXCEPTNS
- BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY SUT LEARS
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY AND LBIAN TROOP LEARS
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. * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
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. " 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. "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 CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
The Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday that ’s liftg the ban on gay adults as Sut lears. * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
"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.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI TO ALLOW GAY ADULT LEARS; CHURCH-N UNS N KEEP THE EXCLN
The Boy Suts of Ameri has end s blanket ban on gay adult lears but will allow church-sponsored Sut uns to mata the excln for relig reasons. * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
“On Monday July 27 the natnal executive board ratified a rolutn removg the natnal rtrictn on openly gay lears and employe, ” Boy Suts of Ameri Print Robert Gat said a vio statement on Monday. “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 Rrights Campaign Print Chad Griff a statement. “However, the admissn of openly gay lears is nsistent wh the doctr of the Church and what have tradnally been the valu of the Boy Suts of Ameri.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS
But church-sponsored sut uns will be able to mata the excln of gay adult lears bee of their fah * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
However, former Boy Sut learship team member Jon Langbert told CNN’s Carol Costello he believ the new policy isn’t a cure-all, sce lol troops will still be allowed to make the cisn on whether to allow gay lears. “It creat a b of a ms when you don’t have one global policy for the Suts, ” Langbert add, notg that the natnal anizatn allows gay adults as employe.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI LIFTS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS
Boy Suts of Ameri Lifts Ban on Gay Adult Lears. The new policy will allow dividual uns to select adult lears based on their own creria, cludg sexual orientatn.... * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
NEW YORK – The Boy Suts of Ameri has end s blanket ban on gay adult lears but will allow church-sponsored Sut uns to mata the excln for relig new policy, aimed at easg a ntroversy that has embroiled the Boy Suts for years, tak effect immediately. "The admissn of openly gay lears is nsistent wh the doctr of the Church and what have tradnally been the valu of the Boy Suts of Ameri, " said a statement om Mormon headquarters Salt Lake ntrast, the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal LGBT-rights anizatn, said the Boy Suts should not allow church-sponsored uns to ntue excludg gays. "Gat forhadowed Monday's actn on May 21, when he told the Suts' natnal meetg that the long-standg ban on participatn by openly gay adults was no longer staable.
BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
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.” * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
It would allow lol Sut uns to select adult lears whout regard to sexual orientatn — a stance that several Sut uncils have already adopted fiance of the official natnal 2013, after heated ternal bate, the BSA cid to allow openly gay youth as suts, but not gay adults as lears. Several nomatns that llectively sponsor close to half of all Sut uns — cludg the Roman Catholic church, the Mormon church and the Southern Baptist Conventn — have been apprehensive about endg the ban on gay BSA's top lears pledged to fend the right of any church-sponsored uns to ntue excludg gays as adult volunteers. Notably, nveyed a reluctance to accept participatn by anyone who engaged sexual nduct outsi of a heterosexual the BSA's new policy, gay lears who were prevly removed om Sutg bee of the ban would have the opportuny to reapply for volunteer posns.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
Ray Suarez vtigat the ntroversy surroundg the Boy Suts and their policy agast gay lears. * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
If otherwise qualified, a gay adult would be eligible to serve as a Sutmaster or un, who beme the BSA's print May 2014, said at the time that he personally would have favored endg the ban on gay adults, but he opposed any further bate after the Suts' policymakg body upheld the ban.
"He ced an announcement by the BSA's New York Cy chapter early April that had hired Pasl Tsier, the natn's first openly gay Eagle Sut, as a summer mp lear.
THE BOY SUTS AND THEIR POLICY AGAST GAY LEARS
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. * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
Kenh Upton, a lawyer for the LGBT-rights group Lambda Legal, qutned whether the BSA's new policy to let church-sponsored uns ntue to exclu gay adults would be staable.
4 ln boys and about 1 ln the 2013 cisn to adm gay youth, some nservativ spl om the BSA to form a new group, Trail Life USA, which has created s own ranks, badg and uniforms.
NEW YORK -- The Boy Suts of Ameri on Monday end s blanket ban on gay adult lears while allowg church-sponsored Sut uns to mata the excln for relig new policy, aimed at easg a ntroversy that has embroiled the Boy Suts for years, tak effect immediately. The stage had been set for Monday's actn on May 21, when Gat told the Suts' natnal meetg that the long-standg ban on participatn by openly gay adults was no longer staable.
BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
An explaer on how the group has evolved w/ social issu over the years (ie. allowg gays, gay lears, now transgenr, etc.) * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
Several nomatns that llectively sponsor close to half of all Sut uns -- cludg the Roman Catholic church, the Mormon church and the Southern Baptist Conventn -- have been apprehensive about endg the ban on gay BSA's top lears have pledged to fend the right of any church-sponsored uns to ntue excludg gays as adult volunteers. -If otherwise qualified, a gay adult would be eligible to serve as a Sutmaster or un, who beme the BSA's print May 2014, said at the time that he personally would have favored endg the ban on gay adults, but he opposed any further bate after the Suts' policymakg body upheld the ban.
BOY SUTS LIFT BLANKET BAN ON GAY LEARS, WILL ALLOW EXCEPTNS
The Boy Suts of Ameri lifted a blanket ban on gay sut lears Monday but will allow relig-backed sut groups to ny learship posns based on sexual orientatn. * do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
He ced an announcement by the BSA's New York Cy chapter early April that had hired Pasl Tsier, the natn's first openly gay Eagle Sut, as a summer mp lear. Sce then, the exclnary policy has prompted numero major rporatns to spend charable donatns to the Suts, and has straed relatns wh some municipali that ver gays their non-discrimatn Upton, a lawyer for the LGBT-rights group Lambda Legal, qutned whether the BSA's new policy to let church-sponsored uns ntue to exclu gay adults would be staable. The Boy Suts of Ameri has announced that s natnal executive board has voted to lift the anizatn's ban on openly gay and bisexual adult lears and employe, effective a 45-12 vote, the 71-member board adopted a rolutn (12 pag, PDF) that s executive mtee, a unanimo vote earlier this month, remend for ratifitn.
BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
* do the boy scouts allow gay leaders *
The new policy do not require dividual uns to allow gay adult lears; stead, chartered BSA uns, cludg those sponsored by church, will be allowed to select adult lears based on their own creria, cludg sexual orientatn. ""While we still have some rervatns about dividual uns discrimatg agast gay adults, we uldn’t be more exced about the future of Sutg, " said Suts for Equaly executive director Zach Wahls.
"[T]he admissn of openly gay lears is nsistent wh the doctr of the church and what have tradnally been the valu of the Boy Suts of Ameri.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY SUT LEARS
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. “The rolutn also rerc that Sutg is a youth program, and any sexual nduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Sutg age is ntrary to the virtu of Sutg, ” the 103-year-old anizatn said a statement after the vote.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY AND LBIAN TROOP LEARS
Tyrrell, an terview wh CNN affiliate KTVT, said that the vote energized her for her next ph – to change Boy Sut policy so that gays and lbian adults, like herself, n serve as lears.