The Boy Suts Have Approved a Plan to Allow Gay Troop Lears

Contents:

• BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
• THE BOY SUTS AND THEIR POLICY AGAST GAY LEARS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI LIFTS BAN ON GAY LEARS
• BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• BOY SUTS PRINT: BAN ON GAY LEARS ‘UNSTAABLE’
• BOY SUTS CONSIR ENDG POLICY BANNG GAY MEMBERS AND TROOP LEARS
• BOY SUTS’ PRINT CALLS FOR END TO BAN ON GAY LEARS
• BOY SUTS END BAN ON GAY LEARS, OVER PROTTS BY MORMON CHURCH
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO END NTROVERSIAL BAN ON OPENLY-GAY SUT LEARS
• WHAT DROPPG THE BAN ON GAY LEARS MEANS FOR THE BOY SUTS
• BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS
• BOY SUTS: WE'RE KEEPG POLICY BANNG GAYS
• HOW THE BOY SUTS' GAY LEAR POLICY WILL HELP
• BOY SUTS OF AMERI SET TO ALLOW GAY LEARS
• THE BOY SUTS HAVE APPROVED A PLAN TO ALLOW GAY TROOP LEARS

BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY 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. “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 BOY SUTS AND THEIR POLICY AGAST GAY LEARS

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.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI LIFTS BAN ON 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.

Ray Suarez vtigat the ntroversy surroundg the Boy Suts and their policy agast gay lears.

BOY SUTS PANEL ADOPTS ROLUTN TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

Bob Cadwallar is sutmaster of Troop 822 suburban CADWALLADER, Troop 822 Sutmaster: To me, personally, homosexualy is not natural, and I do not want tght or prented to my children as natural. For New York Cy's Troop 729, the Boy Suts' posn on homosexualy has created an agonizg nflict between their valu and their loyalty to the HANSEN NELSON, Troop 729, Assistant Sutmaster: Inially, I wanted out; I wanted to rign prott, you know.

BOY SUTS PRINT: BAN ON GAY LEARS ‘UNSTAABLE’

Now 's found that the natnal anizatn's stand on homosexuals has ma tougher to raise money. Officials at the natnal headquarters of the Boy Suts of Ameri cled to ment about fundraisg or their posn on homosexuals, but they have posted their ratnale for the policy on their Web se: "An avowed homosexual is not a role mol for the tradnal moral valu poed the Sut Oath and Law and homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu we wish to still.

They were very trated wh the fact that so much of what Boy Suts stands for was kd of phed out of the way bee of, you know, a uple of people thk that homosexualy is a s. Two of my sons and one of the other boys the troop have had homosexual men make pass, if you will. He c numero studi which have nclud that gay men are not more likely than straight men to sexually abe young boys.

BOY SUTS CONSIR ENDG POLICY BANNG GAY MEMBERS AND TROOP LEARS

It hurts kids, hurts gay kids, who, like, they don't have a tough enough time already this untry growg up? But to the natnal anizatn and the troop lears Maryland, what is wrong is homosexualy self.

What changed is the more open, nontatnal challenge that was prented to the Boy Suts after 1970, the rise of the homosexual rights movement, the rise of the more radil separatn of church and state movement.

But John Oldham, at the Psychiatric Instute, says 's many people's beliefs about homosexualy that are out of date. Inherently attached to this issue is a very strong array of fears and anxieti, many of which may even be fairly unrstandable bee they rive om a perd when there were wily held beliefs about homosexualy that we now no longer subscribe to.

BOY SUTS’ PRINT CALLS FOR END TO BAN ON GAY LEARS

Oldham not that when he began trag psychiatry as a young man, homosexualy was viewed as a type of diagnosable disorr.

BOY SUTS END BAN ON GAY LEARS, OVER PROTTS BY MORMON CHURCH

It's a very different terpretatn of homosexualy om the one held by the lears of troop 822 Maryland. But if at some pot a lear said, "well, you know, I'm gay and 's a good liftyle, " I want him out, I want him gone.

I wonred what he would say if someone on his Eagle board of review, his fal hurdle, asked him whether he would follow the Boy Sut's policy excludg gays. " But now some relig groups, and adult lears, and the boys themselv have been led by those same words to very different nclns about gay people and sutg. As of 2014, no youth member (unr 18 years old) of any BSA program n be expelled simply for beg gay, lbian, or bisexual.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS

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.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO END NTROVERSIAL BAN ON OPENLY-GAY SUT LEARS

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.

If spicn of beg gay uld rult your child beg bullied, then there may be eper ncerns about their Sutg peers and environment. The Gay, Lbian, Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) has already veloped age-appropriate rourc for young people gras K-12.

On July 27, 2015, the Boy Suts of Ameri (BSA) officially lifted s long standg ban on adult lears who are openly gay.

WHAT DROPPG THE BAN ON GAY LEARS MEANS FOR THE BOY SUTS

The Suts’ 80-member Natnal Executive Board approved the rolutn that drops s blanket rtrictn on openly gay adult lears and employe. ”In 2013, the Boy Suts’ Natnal Council removed s rtrictn on membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientatn but they kept the ban of s gay adult lears.

BOY SUTS TO REPEAL BAN ON GAY LEARS, WH LIMATNS

This policy change was cricized by people and groups on both sis of the issue; LGBTQ anizatns felt didn’t go far enough and relig groups were agast allowg openly gay youth to be members. Prr to this and for more than thirty years, the Boy Suts of Ameri’s official posn was to ny membership to dividuals (members and lears) who were openly gay. This lson provis an opportuny for stunts to learn more about the evolutn of the Boy Suts’ posn on gay members and lears, analyze Robert Gat’ recent speech on the issue and explore stunts’ own pots of view by wrg persuasive says.

BOY SUTS: WE'RE KEEPG POLICY BANNG GAYS

The executive mtee of the Boy Suts of Ameri has unanimoly adopted a rolutn that would allow gay adults to serve as Sut lears, endg a longstandg ban on gay lears the anizatn. " The move months after Robert Gat, the print of the Boy Suts of Ameri, lled on the anizatn to reasss s ban on gay adults, sayg, "We mt al wh the world as is, not as we might wish to be. " He also told NPR "gays would be permted uns that want to have them, " but church that sponsor Sut uns would be allowed to exercise their relig eedom and ensure lears troops they sponsor, or uns that they sponsor, reflect the fah of the sponsorg stutn.

The print of the Boy Suts of Ameri on Thursday urged the anizatn to rensir s blanket ban on gay lears, suggtg that the anizatn mt keep up wh the tim on the issue or face “the end of as a natnal movement. ”Gat’s remarks e two years after the century-old anizatn voted to lift the ban on gay youths, a ntroversial cisn that upset some of the relig groups that reprent 70 percent of the lol sponsors of the remarks also e as prsure is mountg on the group om advot but also state ernments and members.

HOW THE BOY SUTS' GAY LEAR POLICY WILL HELP

In April, the Greater New York Area Councils of the Boy Suts of Ameri hired an openly gay lear for a mp this summer, fiance of the natnal group’s policy. He said the anizatn’s cisn-makg bodi were examg their polici and that the meantime uncils that flout the ban would not be suggted a promise that allows the cisn of whether to allow gay lears to be ma at the lol level. That would give groups such as New York the right to hire a gay mp lear, while also protectg troops sponsored by the Catholic and Mormon church om havg to do the same.

”Gat’s remarks drew immediate praise om gay rights groups, which urged the anizatn to take heed of his warng. A new poll om Gallup, released Wednday, showed that a majory of Amerins (51 percent) say that people who are gay or lbian are born that way; a day earlier, Gallup also reported that six 10 Amerins support same-sex marriage. After years of ristg lls for to drop s opposn to gay members and troop lears, the Boy Suts of Ameri (BSA) may fally — slowly — be changg s tune.

The group’s long-standg ban on gay membership, while has faced several legal challeng, was upheld by the U.

BOY SUTS OF AMERI SET TO ALLOW GAY LEARS

In October, Ryan Andren, a then 17-year-old sut who had pleted all the qualifitns for earng his Eagle badge, learned om his troop lear that he uld not be award the mer bee he was gay.

Gat, the print of the Boy Suts of Ameri and former secretary of fense, lled on Thursday to end the Suts’ ban on gay adult lears, warng the group’s executiv that “we mt al wh the world as is, not as we might wish to be. In that role, he helped end the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy — which was siar to the current Boy Suts policy toward Sut lears — and discrimatn agast gay men and relled that 2010, a feral judge clared the ary policy to be illegal. He said he had origally tend to put off nsiratn of the divisive issue of gay adults, allowg the Boy Suts a rpe after a ntent meetg 2013 at which the anizatn cid to perm openly gay youths to belong to said that he had not yet ma a formal proposal to the natnal board, but that mt act soon to head off possible his posn is voluntary, Mr.

Gat, an Eagle Sut, wields enormo power the Boy Suts, which have been stgglg to stem a shrkg membership for treatment of gay men and boys has been a source of wrenchg bate.

THE BOY SUTS HAVE APPROVED A PLAN TO ALLOW GAY TROOP LEARS

Conservative relig groups that sponsor many Sut troops, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, the Roman Catholic Church and some evangelil church, opposed the participatn of openly gay members, while lol lears more liberal regns have lled for an end to 2013, Boy Sut lears om across the untry voted, wh more than 60 percent approval, to say that no youth may be nied membership “on the basis of sexual orientatn or preference alone. ” But left tact the even more disputed policy that no openly gay adults uld serve the then, a Sut group New York has fied the l by employg an openly gay 18-year-old as a mp unselor, and several other uncils around the untry have exprsed opposn to the Gat said Thursday, prepared remarks released by the Boy Suts, that the natnal learship would take no actn agast fiant lol the same time, he said that the name of relig eedom, the Suts should allow lol sponsorg anizatns “to terme the standards for their Sut lears. Relig nservativ, who had already nmned the Boy Suts for the cisn to adm openly gay boys, were strongly cril of Mr.

The executive board uld mandate such a change at any time the g year, he said, or uld ci, as did 2013, to put the matter up for a vote at next year’s annual nventn of sut lears om around the Kate Ellis, print of Glaad, a gay rights anizatn, also praised Mr.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Suts’ Head Calls for End to Ban on Gay Lears.