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Contents:

• BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
• BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
• THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; SUPREME COURT BACKS BOY SUTS IN BAN OF GAYS FROM MEMBERSHIP
• BEHD THE SCEN 2000 WHEN SUPREME COURT LIBERALS THOUGHT NAZI AND DRED STT REFERENC GAY RIGHTS DISSENT WERE DISTRACTG
• BOY SUTS VS. GAYS
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS

KurkiisEight years after liftg a ban on homosexual youth when boasted more than 2. The reasons ced by the AP for the recent drop membership is petn om sports leagu, a perceptn that the BSA is old fashned and the BSA, however, has been steadily losg members, particularly om nservative Christian fai, sce 2013, when adopted an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth the an terview wh The Christian Post that year, Elizabeth Prchard, the pack mtee chair for Pack 928 Southlake, Texas, warned that the vote would acture the anizatn and sre away members who disagreed wh the lg. "Sce 2013, the BSA announced further chang s membership policy allowg openly gay sut lears 2015.

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS

Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday would lift s ban on gay lears. The Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday that ’s liftg the ban on gay adults as Sut lears.

“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. Boy Suts move closer to endg ban 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 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. Gat lled for the Suts to end s ban on gay adults remarks (PDF) at the anizatn’s natnal bs meetg, held May 21.

THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; SUPREME COURT BACKS BOY SUTS IN BAN OF GAYS FROM MEMBERSHIP

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. ” asked Langbert, who is openly gay and says he gave up his learship role when other fathers plaed. “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.

Gay youths have been allowed the Boy Suts sce 2013. Anizatn for boys, may exclu gay se origated when Jam Dale, an assistant sutmaster the Boy Suts of Ameri, was expelled om the anizatn when learned that he was gay and active the gay rights movement.

The Boy Suts, turn, poted to their own policy statements pictg homosexual nduct as nsistent wh the requirement that a Sut be “morally straight” and “clean. “Dale’s prence the Boy Suts would, at the very least, force the anizatn to send a msage…that the Boy Suts accept homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr, ” he nclud. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc.

BEHD THE SCEN 2000 WHEN SUPREME COURT LIBERALS THOUGHT NAZI AND DRED STT REFERENC GAY RIGHTS DISSENT WERE DISTRACTG

(1995), which upheld the right of para anizers to exclu gay groups—did not disagree so much wh Rehnquist’s terpretatn of the law as wh the facts of the se.

Quotg om the Suts’ handbook, Stevens clared that “ is pla as the light of day that neher one of the prcipl—‘morally straight’ and ‘clean’—says the slightt thg about homosexualy. ” Sce the Suts had not clearly proclaimed any antigay policy s official handbook, Stevens argued, the Hurley cisn was not ntrollg. Moreover, Dale did not flout his sexual orientatn, and no evince existed that he wanted to e his posn as sutmaster to send any kd of msage regardg homosexualy to members of the Boy Suts or to the world.

Jt over one year after liftg s ban on gay employe, the Boy Suts of Ameri has announced will accept transgenr boys as members of s sutg chapters natnwi. "The Human Rights Campaign appld the cisn but lled on BSA to extend to “full LGBTQ cln for both employe and volunteers, ” notg that the policy change allowg gay employe and volunteers did not extend to transgenr adults. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTTHE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASEJune 29, 2000See the article s origal ntext om June 29, 2000, Sectn A, Page 1Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal Supreme Court led today by a 5-to-4 vote that the Boy Suts have a nstutnal right to exclu gay members bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn's ''exprsive msage.

BOY SUTS VS. GAYS

''The cisn overturned a lg last year by the New Jersey Supreme Court that applied the state's law agast discrimatn public acmodatns to require a New Jersey troop to readm a longtime member and assistant sutmaster, Jam Dale, whom had dismissed after learng he was gay. Rehnquist said that the urt tend neher to approve nor disapprove the Boy Suts' view of homosexualy, but that the First Amendment's protectn for eedom of associatn meant that the state uld not pel the 6.

''He said ''Dale's prence the Boy Suts would, at the very least, force the anizatn to send a msage, both to the youth members and the world, that the Boy Suts accepts homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr. Patrick's Day para anizers to exclu a group that sought to march unr a banner of Irish gay the dissenters objected strenuoly to that prciple's applitn this se, bee they said the majory had done ltle more than accept at face value the Boy Suts' assertn of the central importance of their opposn to homosexualy. But except briefs filed s fendg their membership policy, the Boy Suts had never ma the ''clear, unequivol statement necsary to prevail'' on a claim that homosexualy was fundamentally patible wh the anizatn's missn, the dissenters Jtice Rehnquist's majory opn was joed by Jtic Sandra Day O'Connor, Anton Slia, Anthony M.

Patrick's Day para se, which the gay marchers had claimed the protectn of a Massachetts civil rights law. 99-699, the chief jtice quoted om var Boy Suts publitns and explanatns of the policy, notg that though the terms ''morally straight'' and ''clean'' the Sut Oath and Law ''are by no means self-fg, '' Sut officials terpreted them as statements of opposn to Harlow, puty legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund New York, said today that the Boy Suts had won only a ''hollow, Pyrrhic victory'' bee to w the se, had to monstrate to the urt's satisfactn the centraly of s opposn to homosexualy. Dale before the urt, said the cisn ''requir you to clare yourself an stutn wh an anti-gay msage, and we don't thk there are many anizatns this day and age willg to clare themselv as that.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

''In his dissentg opn, Jtice Stevens noted several newspaper articl om the last few weeks that scribed a gay pri day at the Central Intelligence Agency, a New England boardg school's acceptance of openly gay upl as dormory parents and the extensn of benefs to gay partners by the major tomobile makers. ''The past month alone has wnsed some remarkable chang attus about homosexuals, '' he Jtice Rehnquist rpond: ''Ined, appears that homosexualy has gaed greater societal acceptance. We believe an avowed homosexual is not a role mol for the valu poed the Sut oath and law.

''Jtice Stevens said dissent that the majory's distctn was unpersuasive bee jt as the all-male clubs had not ma the excln of women a central goal, ''there is no shared goal or llective effort to foster a belief about homosexualy'' the Boy Suts, ''let alone one that is signifintly burned by admtg homosexuals. ''Jtice Stevens said: ''The only apparent explanatn for the majory's holdg, then, is that homosexuals are simply so different om the rt of society that their prence alone -- unlike any other dividual's -- should be sgled out for special First Amendment treatment. Dale's sexual se attracted dozens of briefs, a number pictg this legal battle -- which the Boy Suts have been wagg urts around the untry for 20 years -- as the cuttg edge of the current culture Dale was an Eagle Sut and popular member and then assistant lear of the troop he had joed at the age of 8 when, 12 years later, he was ejected after his picture appeared a New Jersey newspaper article about a gay stunt nference at Rutgers, where he was -print of the gay and lbian stunts' anizatn.

A rrectn was ma onJuly 1, 2000: An article on Thursday about groups that disagreed wh the Supreme Court lg allowg the Boy Suts of Ameri to exclu gays misstated the posn of the Uned Methodist Church. Although the church oppos discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, did not enurage ngregatns to sever ti wh the Boy we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; Supreme Court Backs Boy Suts In Ban of Gays From Membership.