An explaer on how the group has evolved w/ social issu over the years (ie. allowg gays, gay lears, now transgenr, etc.)
Contents:
- CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
- GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
- BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
- CONFSNS OF A GAY BOY SUT
- BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
- BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
* gay in boy scouts *
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. What about gay adult lears? This created a nundm: Once a gay boy turned 18, he would be barred om the was the challenge facg Pasl Tsier.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
The erng body of the Boy Suts of Ameri voted Monday to end s s-long ban on gay sut lears. * gay in boy scouts *
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 Gat, who served unr Print Obama when “don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed, urged the group to end s ban on gay lears.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.
“Bob is 15 years old, and the only openly gay Sut a Boy Sut troop.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
The cisn uld impact the eligibily of thoands of young men and women an anizatn that had voted to allow gay teens to jo. * gay in boy scouts *
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.
BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
Ok I adm I too have lived the life of a gay boy sut. I loved my time suts. You n image the disappotment when suts show themselv as bigots * gay in boy scouts *
Tristam HarrgtonWhen the BSA announced late January that may dch the natnal policy and stead let lol sponsorg anizatns ci if gays n jo, the anizatn received a flood of rpons om both sis.
The Boy Suts have asked for the surveys to be returned by April BSA also asked if the currently policy was a “re value” of Sutg and if rponnts would leave the BSA if a cisn was ma that disagreed wh their qutns on the survey clu:A gay male troop lear, along wh another adult lear, is takg a group of boys on a mpg trip followg the youth protectn guil of two-ep learship. Is acceptable or unacceptable for the gay adult lear to take adolcent boys on an overnight mpg trip? A troop is chartered by an anizatn that do not believe homosexualy is wrong and allows gays to be misters.
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.” * gay in boy scouts *
The ngregatn hir a youth mister who is gay. Johnny’s pack is chartered to a church where the doctre of that fah do not teach that homosexualy is wrong. David, a Boy Sut, believ that homosexualy is wrong.
His troop is chartered to a church where the doctre of that fah also teach that homosexualy is wrong. Steve, an openly gay youth, appli to be a member the troop and is nied membership. Related stori: Boy Suts: We need more time for cisn on gay SutsAfter years of heartache, gay Suts and supporters react warily over proposal to lift ban'Gravely distrsed': Relign looms large over Boy Suts cisn on gays 'BATTLESTATIONS!
': Call- war waged over Boy Suts' ban on gays. Later, 2015, lifted s ban on gay sutmasters, spe the anizatn’s history of sexual abe by the same.
CONFSNS OF A GAY BOY SUT
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. * gay in boy scouts *
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. 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. 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 PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
But some church have been openly cril of the ban on gay sut lears. Supreme Court upheld the Suts' right to exclu an assistant sutmaster, Jam Dale, after he me out as gay.
BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
"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. Those standards clu barrg “open or avowed” gay adults om jog and have been at the center of a ntroversy that has roiled one of Ameri’s most popular youth anizatns for BSA’s Natnal Executive Board Febary ma the cisn a rolutn lowerg the eligibily age such programs as the high-adventure -ed Venturg program, Sea Suts and the Orr of the Arrow, the Boy Suts’ Natnal Honor Society, Smh said. After last year’s ntroversial ballot to allow gay youth, gay Boy Suts believed they uld ntue on om that program at 18 to Venturg or the Sea Suts program and rema a member the Suts and tw brothers Augt and Liam Easton-Calabria, om left, pose for a portra their home Seattle, Wash., on March 27, 2014.