Boy Suts 'Movg Forward,' Vote To Allow Gay Members

Contents:

• CAN A GAY BOY SUT SHARE A TENT WH ANOTHER BOY? BOY SUTS SURVEY MEMBERS ON ANTI-GAY POLICY
• BOY SUTS VOTE TO END BAN ON GAY SUTS; GAY ADULTS STILL BARRED
• US SUTS MOVE TO ALLOW GAY MEMBERS, NOT LEARS
• THE SUPREME COURT: THE NEW JERSEY CASE; SUPREME COURT BACKS BOY SUTS IN BAN OF GAYS FROM MEMBERSHIP
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
• ROBERT GAT TELLS SUTS HE OPPOS CHANG TO POLICY ON GAY MEMBERS
• BOY SUTS' BAN ON GAY LEARS LEADS DISNEY TO END GRANTS
• BOY SUTS GAY
• BOY SUTS 'MOVG FORWARD,' VOTE TO ALLOW GAY MEMBERS
• PHILALPHIA JURY SAYS SUTS CANNOT BE EVICTED FOR GAY BAN

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. 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!

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

May 23, 2013 — -- The Boy Suts of Ameri today voted to lift s longtime natnal ban on admtg openly gay Suts but will ntue to exclu openly gay adults om learship vote by s 1, 400 natnal membership me as no surprise to gay rights advot, who hailed as a first step to endg discrimatory practic the 103-year-old Boy Suts said that had pleted s "most prehensive listeng exercise Sutg's history" on the issue and will change s policy Jan. Still, she applds what she nsirs a "temporary" Oh Cub Sut Lear Fired for Beg Gay"I am enuraged, bee we fely are for the long hl, " Tyrrell, a 33-year-old mother of four told "Once the ban is lifted on youth, they will see their fears are unfound.

"She said she would ntue to fight for other gay fai who wanted to be part of the others, such as former former Eagle Sut Jam Dale, who brought the lawsu agast the Boy Suts that ma all the way to the Supreme Court 2000, said the partial liftg of the ban mak the anizatn "ls relevant. "You n have gay Suts, [but] you n't have gay Sut lears or anyone over the age of 18, " said Dale, who's now 42 and works advertisg New York Cy.

US SUTS MOVE TO ALLOW GAY MEMBERS, NOT LEARS

"But recent months, some church have backed away om their opposn, acrdg to the gay advocy group Mormon church, which sponsors most of the troops, has now endorsed allowg gay Suts.

The Natnal Jewish Commtee on Sutg, the Epispal Church, the Uned Church of Christ, the Unarian Universalist Associatn and the Metropolan Communy Church all urged full repeal of the many other Christian groups stood firm prott, cg relig eedom and the prev Supreme Court 19, 000 past or current members of the Suts signed a petn om Alliance Defendg Freedom, which was livered to the Boy Suts this week, urgg to keep the Stemberger founr of, a group of former Suts, lears and parents who oppose liftg the ban, said the anizatn worried ls about sexual inty than gay activism. Stemberger said his group's attempts to distribute buttons and 1, 000 pi of a newspaper ad the Dallas Morng News to legat were thwarted by the Boy Suts secury guards who asked them to leave the hotel group had hoped to unter Boy Suts of Ameri Print Wayne Perry's op-ed piece USA Today urgg the legat to allow gay youth to be part of Sutg.

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

At least a half dozen other stat are nsirg legislative Supreme Court is currently nsirg repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and a challenge to the California ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposn 's evince the gay ban has hurt the anizatn.

He has now worked for the anizatn for five said he and many other gay Suts "live wh apprehensn, hidg our personal liv and not knowg if we uld be outed and fired at any moment.

Zach Wahls is the straight son of a lbian uple, an Eagle Sut and the founr of Suts for week, the Boy Suts of Ameri voted to end s s-long ban on gay youth, while keepg s ban on adults – gay parents like me – place. Some anti-gay activists opposed to liftg the ban have tried to argue that by allowg openly gay members would somehow jeopardize the program’s the timels valu.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

Speakg as the straight Eagle Sut son of an openly lbian uple who joed the Suts when I was only six years old, I've actually seen firsthand what happens when openly gay dividuals bee Suts and Sut lears. But after my moms approached the Pack, which was sponsored by a Prbyterian church, and asked if the fact that they were gay would be a problem, the other parents said there would be no issue. Although anti-gay activists may try to nvce you that the prence of openly gay members would have led to all kds of doomsday scenars, the parents central Wisns knew better.

For sheer pragmatic reasons – let alone the fact that excludg people is certaly not kd, urteo, or iendly – liftg the ban on gay youth and parents is clearly the bt tert of sutg. LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Lears of the Boy Suts of Ameri agreed on Friday to adm gay youth members while matag a ban on adult lears, drawg cricism om both homosexual groups and nservativ. "While the BSA do not proactively quire about sexual orientatn of employe, volunteers, or members, we do not grant membership to dividuals who are open or avowed homosexuals or who engage behavr that would bee a distractn to the missn of the BSA, " said.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

The founr of nservative sutg body slammed what he said tried "to dodge cricism om gay activists but still creat a myriad of problems" for managg sutg activi. The Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Discrimatn (GLAAD) said BSA had "failed s members, rporate sponsors, donors and the lns of Amerins who agree that the time to end discrimatn throughout sutg is now".

ROBERT GAT TELLS SUTS HE OPPOS CHANG TO POLICY ON GAY MEMBERS

"By refg to nsir an end to s ban on gay and lbian parents, the Boy Suts have missed an opportuny to exercise learship and her the anisatn back to relevancy, said GLAAD vice print Richard Ferraro.

BOY SUTS' BAN ON GAY LEARS LEADS DISNEY TO END GRANTS

The Supreme Court led 2000 favor of the Boy Suts, sayg that the prohibn agast openly homosexual members was part of s right as a private anisatn to ee associatn.

BOY SUTS GAY

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BOY SUTS 'MOVG FORWARD,' VOTE TO ALLOW GAY MEMBERS

''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. 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.

PHILALPHIA JURY SAYS SUTS CANNOT BE EVICTED FOR GAY BAN

''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.

''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.