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• CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS
• BOY SUTS: YOU N BE GAY UNTIL YOU TURN 18
• BOY SUTS TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EAGLE SUT UNR NEW POLICY, BUT BROTHER EXCLUD FROM SUTG
• BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS
• BOY SUTS VOTE TO END BAN ON GAY SUTS; GAY ADULTS STILL BARRED
• 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

” 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. 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?

BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

A troop is chartered by an anizatn that do not believe homosexualy is wrong and allows gays to be misters.

Johnny’s pack is chartered to a church where the doctre of that fah do not teach 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.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

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! As of 2014, no youth member (unr 18 years old) of any BSA program n be expelled simply for beg gay, lbian, or bisexual.

Did the Boy Suts have a legal right to exclu gay people om learship and membership posns for so long? In the sprg of 2015, Pasl Tsier – an openly gay man – was hired by the Greater New York Councils for a summer mp posn, spe of the natnal policy. Had the BSA fired him, many people believe that their actns would have been vlatn of New York State Law and that ’s unlikely that the BSA would have been able to succsfully fend their ban on gay employe urt.

The problems that gay adolcents experience are the rults of isolatn and social disapproval, and many siar “safe space” projects (often g stickers on classroom doors, lockers, etc.

BOY SUTS CUT AGE LIM TO 18 MOVE THAT WILL IMPACT GAYS

If spicn of beg gay uld rult your child beg bullied, then there may be eper ncerns about their Sutg peers and environment. Early 2012, Jennifer Tyrrell was removed om her son’s Cub Sut Pack bee she was gay. The Gay, Lbian, Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) has already veloped age-appropriate rourc for young people gras K-12.

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.

BOY SUTS: YOU N BE GAY UNTIL YOU TURN 18

"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. 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.

But the summer of 1990, Dale received a letter rmg him that his membership had been revoked, simply bee he was gay. 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 TO ALLOW GAY YOUTHS TO JO

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. More troublgly, though, the hatn also perpetuated the historic and homophobic perceptn of gay adults as promiscuo dividuals wh nefar tentns.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EAGLE SUT UNR NEW POLICY, BUT BROTHER EXCLUD FROM SUTG

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.

BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS

Later, 2015, lifted s ban on gay sutmasters, spe the anizatn’s history of sexual abe by the same. 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.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI ENDS BAN ON GAY ADULT LEARS

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.

An all-male anizatn cludg gays should have secured the protectn and safety of the young Suts participatg the BSA. 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.

BOY SUTS VOTE TO END BAN ON GAY SUTS; GAY ADULTS STILL BARRED

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.

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS

After that “young people who are 18 but not yet 21, will be required to register as adults but may still participate those programs, ” he Boy Suts have grappled wh their policy banng gays for years.

In a live webst jt before the ballot to allow gay youth was held last May, BSA lears said gay teens uld still participate the programs that fe olr boys as up to, but not yet, then, the Natnal Council voted to accept the new youth membership standards which said participatn was “open to all youth who meet the specific membership requirements to jo the Cub Sut, Boy Sut, Varsy Sut, Sea Sut, and Venturg programs. ”Liam Easton-Calabria, an 18-year-old openly gay Eagle Sut Venturg said the cisn was “like a slap the face.