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Sutg anisatn Suts Canada, has reaffirmed s clive policy for gay members, volunteers and staff, and ved Carly Rae Jepsen to perform at s jamboree, sce she turned down the Boy Suts of Ameri's gig for s anti-gay policy.

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SUTS CANADA REAFFIRMS GAY MEMBERS WELE, V JEPSEN TO THEIR JAMBOREE

In the wake of Carly Rae Jepsen's ncellatn of her Boy Suts of Ameri performance due to the group's excln of gays, Suts Canada is reaffirmg s stance on clivens -- and says Jepsen is wele at their jamboree. * scouts canada gay *

TORONTO - In the wake of Carly Rae Jepsen's ncellatn of her Boy Suts of Ameri performance due to the group's excln of gays, Suts Canada is reaffirmg s stance on clivens -- and says Jepsen is wele at their jamboree. Rock band Tra also warned that won't appear unls the anizatn stops barrg participatn by gay suts or adult lears.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

The Boy Suts of Ameri will accept openly gay youths startg on New Year's Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponr a host of potential plitns. * scouts canada gay *

In May, the Boy Suts of Ameri's 1, 400-member Natnal Council is expected to nsir a proposal to ease the ban by allowg sponsors of lol Sut uns to ci for themselv whether to adm gays. 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.

CANADA WEL FIRST GAY SUT TROOP

Canada has bee one of the world's most tolerant untri regardg homosexualy; Suts Canada has gurated s first official gay and lbian sut troop; Canada has also jt adopted omnib law that eras virtually all legal distctns between heterosexual marriag and same sex unns; photo (M) * scouts canada gay *

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 OF AMERI OPENS RANKS TO GAY YOUTH ON JAN. 1

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An all-male anizatn cludg gays should have secured the protectn and safety of the young Suts participatg the BSA. Wh the donng of rabow neckerchiefs, the world's first gay and lbian sut troop beme official last women and four men drsed khaki shirts adorned wh a Canadian flag proudly formed Rover Troop 129 of Suts Canada. Openly gay people are still officially banned U.

Phelps never me, but a monstratn was staged support of the gay troop. Sutg the Uned Stat bans gays, agnostics and atheists. A New Jersey man's appeal of beg banned as a sut lear bee he was gay is expected to be led on by the the U.

IN CANADA, GAY PRI CAN BE PART OF SUTS' HONOR

Supreme Court by the end of this lg is expected to terme whether gay troops n form the Uned Stat. "I me om a homophobic small town. ' ""We are sayg you n be gay sutg, you jt have to hont about .

CANADIAN SUTS GIVE BLSG TO FIRST GAY TROOP

I image mt be good for Suts Canada, " Peter new gay troop is allowed to wear all the badg of Suts sutg programs Canada are -ed. The Suts have said they are nsirg another gay-iendly group Toronto the Venturers age group, for 14- to groups, the first level of sutg, are also beg planned for children of homosexual and lbian Evans, who joed the Rover group along wh her partner Elena, who cled to give her last name, said the troop plans to march next weekend's Gay Pri para Toronto. The Boy Suts of Ameri will accept openly gay youths startg on New Year's Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponr a host of potential plitns — rangg om polici on tentmat and showers to whether Suts n march gay pri spe their be-prepared approach, BSA lears are rootg for the change to be a non-event, parable to another New Year's Day 2000 when wispread fears of digal-clock chaos to start the new lennium proved Suts of Ameri approv gay youth membersCBC's Jian Ghomhi speaks to Suts for Equaly's founrSuts' honour: U.

Gay ban tts group's moral pass"My hope is there will be the same effect this Jan. "Suts Canada’s cln policySce 2000, Suts Canada has mataed a mment to promotg diversy wh s troops, wh that mment extendg to gays and lbians.

The vote followed bter natnwi bate, and was acpanied by an announcement that the BSA would ntue to exclu openly gay adults om learship the new membership policy, youths n no longer be barred om the Cub Suts, Boy Suts or ed Venturers program solely on the basis of sexual orientatn. However, gay Suts will face some limatns.

SUTS CANADA REAFFIRMS CLN OF GAY MEMBERS AND V CARLY RAE JEPSEN TO JAMBOREE

"Any sexual nduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Sutg age is ntrary to the virtu of Sutg, " says one BSA document. "'Small pockets' of problems expectedTryg to anticipate potential ictn, the BSA has distributed extensive explanatns and qutn-and-answer documents related to the exampl:The Sut LawA sut is: Tstworthy Loyal Helpful Friendly Courteo Kd Obedient Cheerful Thrifty Brave Clean ReverentCould a Sut march uniform a gay-pri para?

GAY SUTS

"How publicly active uld a gay Sut be, terms of gay-rights advocy? "A equently-asked-qutns document anticipat that some objectns might surface om parents — or Suts themselv — s where a un clus an openly gay boy. Of the roughly 110, 000 Sut uns, 70 per cent are sponsored by relig anizatns, cludg several nservative nomatns that had long supported the BSA's excln of gay youth and gay adults.

I don't know whether we had Suts who are homosexual. As lear of the Pentagon, Gat helped change the ary's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy banng openly gay soldiers, and gay-rights groups hope he will try to end the BSA's ban on gay adult Helfand, the sutmaster of Boy Sut Troop 55 Hoton, said membership his troop has remaed steady the wake of the Boy Suts of Ameri changg s policy to accept openly gay youths.

"I don't know whether we had Suts who are homosexual. "As Christians, om a scriptural basis, we love all folks, but the scripture is very clear that beg homosexual is a s, " Orr said.

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