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Contents:
- BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
- GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
- ROBERT GAT, AMERI'S UNLIKELY GAY-RIGHTS HERO
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 of america gay rights *
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. The Suts’ current adult learship standards policy prohibs membership to “dividuals who are open or avowed homosexuals. 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.
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. 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.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
An explaer on how the group has evolved w/ social issu over the years (ie. allowg gays, gay lears, now transgenr, etc.) * boy scouts of america gay rights *
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.
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 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 of america gay rights *
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.
THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
Jt over one year after liftg s ban on gay employe, the Boy Suts of Ameri announced would accept transgenr suts. * boy scouts of america gay rights *
What about gays jog the Suts? From s foundg, the group had a strict policy: No openly gay members. “Boy Suts of Ameri, ” the group said, “believ that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the obligatns the Sut Oath and Sut Law to be morally straight and clean thought, word and ed.
) The advent of the Obama admistratn led to several polici aimed at improvg the liv of gays and lbians, and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that banned openly gay men, lbians and bisexuals om ary service was overturned same year, the Boy Suts of Ameri executive board began what would bee a two-year review of s policy on gays. But 2013, as the group faced cricism om lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights groups that assailed as phg discrimatory polici, the Boy Suts formally announced an end to s ban on gay Suts.
ROBERT GAT, AMERI'S UNLIKELY GAY-RIGHTS HERO
Washgton - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) civil rights anizatn, today rpond to a rolutn by the Boy Suts of Ameri… * boy scouts of america gay rights *
What about gay adult lears?
WASHINGTON – Today the Boy Suts of Ameri Executive Commtee proposed a rolutn that would tablish a nondiscrimatn policy endg the longstandg discrimatory ban on gay Suts, while keepg discrimatory… * boy scouts of america gay rights *
This created a nundm: Once a gay boy turned 18, he would be barred om the was the challenge facg Pasl Tsier.
In 2014, Tsier, a 17-year-old om Maryland, beme the first openly gay Eagle Sut. Gat, who served unr Print Obama when “don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed, urged the group to end s ban on gay lears.
Eventually, the executive board sid wh Gat and voted that year to end the policy on gay adult lears. Wahls, who found Suts for Equaly, a nonprof group that advot for stronger protectns the anizatn for gay and transgenr people, ld the move. But the summer of 1990, Dale received a letter rmg him that his membership had been revoked, simply bee he was gay.
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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.