Jt over one year after liftg s ban on gay employe, the Boy Suts of Ameri announced would accept transgenr suts.
Contents:
- GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
- BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
- BOY SUTS: WE'RE KEEPG POLICY BANNG GAYS
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
- BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
The Boy Suts of Ameri announced Monday that ’s liftg the ban on gay adults as Sut lears. * bsa gay policy *
Followg a two-year closed-door review, the Boy Suts of Ameri (BSA) has announced that will ntue wh s policy of excludg practicg homosexuals om membership and learship posns wh s ranks. While the BSA has long been a target of homosexual activists termed to force the anizatn to accept “gay” lears, the issue me to a head May when Boy Sut officials removed Jennifer Tyrrell as the lear of a Cub Sut troop Bridgeport, Oh when they disvered that she was a lbian.
BOY SUTS CHANGE POLICY ON GAY LEARS
The erng body of the Boy Suts of Ameri voted Monday to end s s-long ban on gay sut lears. * bsa gay policy *
In an attempt to force the BSA to restate her, Tyrell lnched a petn drive on that has garnered some 300, 000 signatur om dividuals who want to see the group allow “gay” lears. The BSA lnched the review of s policy on homosexuals 2010, nveng a special mtee, which said clud a diversy of perspectiv and opns, to terme whether or not to ntue the policy. “Both of their pani have been mend by gay-rights groups for gay-iendly employment polici.
Randall Stephenson is prently favored to take the reigns of the BSA executive board 2014, and will no doubt face heavy lobbyg om homosexual activists to change the group’s policy at that time. In a statement on the BSA’s cisn to ntue to bar homosexuals, AT&T said: “We don’t agree wh every policy of every anizatn we support, nor would we expect them to agree wh on everythg.
BOY SUTS: WE'RE KEEPG POLICY BANNG GAYS
Rponse om homosexual groups to the BSA announcement was predictable.
“Wh the untry movg toward cln, the lears of the Boy Suts of Ameri have stead sent a msage to young people that only some of them are valued, ” said Chad Griff of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s premier homosexual activist group. Siarly, Darlene Nipper of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force acced the Boy Suts of turng “their backs on a chance to monstrate fairns, exercise sound judgment, and serve as a role mol for valug others.
BOY SUTS OF AMERI VOT TO ALLOW GAY SUT LEARS
In the “Gay Voic” sectn of the Huffgton Post, lumnist Michelangelo Signorile acced the Boy Suts of sendg the “dangero msage” that “gay kids don’t measure up” to the Suts’ standards.
BOY SUTS LOST 2 LN MEMBERS SCE LIFTG BAN ON GAY YOUTH; NOW MIRED SEX ABE CLAIMS
The BSA policy is “vastatg and dangero, ” sisted Signorile, “bee at a time when we’ve seen latg reports of young people … takg their own liv, suicis by gay kids often victimized and btalized by bulli. The bulli do bee they’ve been told that gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people are worthls and should be shunned. He charged that that the Suts’ cisn “tells young Amerins that no one should accept gay people.