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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
The Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday that ’s liftg the ban on gay adults as Sut lears. * boy scouts gay ruling *
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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 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.
BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
Boy Suts of Ameri v. Dale, legal se which the U.S. Supreme Court led (5–4) on June 28, 2000, that the Boy Suts, a U.S. anizatn for boys, may exclu gay sutmasters. The se origated when Jam Dale, an assistant sutmaster the Boy Suts of Ameri, was expelled om the * boy scouts gay ruling *
“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.
THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; SUPREME COURT BACKS BOY SUTS IN BAN OF GAYS FROM MEMBERSHIP
Jt over one year after liftg s ban on gay employe, the Boy Suts of Ameri announced would accept transgenr suts. * boy scouts gay ruling *
“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.
BEHD THE SCEN 2000 WHEN SUPREME COURT LIBERALS THOUGHT NAZI AND DRED STT REFERENC GAY RIGHTS DISSENT WERE DISTRACTG
Supreme Court, 5-4, l Boy Suts may exclu gay members bee opposn to homosexualy is part of anizatn's 'exprsive msage'; overturns New Jersey Supreme Court lg that applied state's anti-discrimatn law to require troop to readm longtime member and assistant sutmaster, Jam Dale, whom dismissed after learng he was gay; Chief Jtice William H Rehnquist wr majory opn; dissenters accept prciple that anizatn nnot be forced to adopt unwanted msage, but challenge s applitn se, holdg Boy Suts failed to show that they held opposn to homosexualy as key te before se; photo (M) * boy scouts gay ruling *
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.
BOY SUTS VS. GAYS
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“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.
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
(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.