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Boy Scouts delay decision on gay members until May
“After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy,” the group announced in a statement.
Leaders of the organization reportedly wanted more time to deliberate the controversial issue, which would have for the first time in the organization’s century-long history opened the door for gay scouts. The decision is now expected in May of this year, and will now be decided by the organization’s full 1,400-member national council.
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Interesting – May is about when the Cub Scouts are promoting to the next rank and shortly before the summer break after which new Scouts start.
I don’t want to read too much into this delay, but I wonder if the EB was worried about a mass (and obvious) exodus of Scouts midway through their terms, instead of Scouts just quietly not returning after the summer break.
JohnTant on February 6, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Mass exodus is what will happen. Parents may not admit it, but they won’t want homosexual role models for their sons.
rhombus on February 6, 2013 at 12:28 PM
that’s what i think- a lot of parents are against this but they don’t want to say it out loud because of “hater” accusations.
Sachiko on February 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Could be also, they are seeing how many businesses will/will not fund them?
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letget on February 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM
I’d admit it. There is a difference between recognizing that someone has the right in their own privacy to choose to pleasure themselves in another man’s excremental orifice and recognizing that someone who does that is a worthy role model for anyone.
There is only one reason why homosexuals want to be scout masters and that’s access to boys, plain and simple, for the same reason that Sandusky went into football coaching.
If the BSA goes through with this I expect them to lose at least 50% of their members who will likely form their own scouting organization along the lines of the Oath the national organization seeks to abandon.
The fact that they are drawing this out tells you all you need to know about the national board, that they were AND ARE going to vote this in, regardless of what their members want.
It’s time to boycott the BSA until they emphatically REJECT this move and the existing Executive Board is forcibly RESIGNED and replaced.
wildcat72 on February 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM
A large portion of the Boy Scout troops in the U.S. are affiliated with churches. Many of those churches are quite conservative. The fact that the Boy Scouts have been a conservative group is the reason most of those churches use Boy Scouts as their boy’s program but don’t use Girl Scouts as their girl’s program.
I imagine that many of those churches will implement their own programs in lieu of Boy Scouts if the change is implemented.
Of course, the “leave it up to the local troops” might get around that. However, I don’t see that lasting for long. If I were gay and I thought the Boy Scout’s policy was unmerited and hurtful (and I wanted to engage in advocacy) I would find a troop that was unlikely to allow gay scouts and I’d try to join. If they said no, I’d raise heck. Make a big enough headache for the main office and they’ll change the policy to full inclusion fairly quickly.
JadeNYU on February 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Translation: They don’t have the support to overturn the current policy.
reddevil on February 6, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Remind me who pushed this pushed this into the news. I haven’t been following it.
Dusty on February 6, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Why should they be funded by businesses which are subject to pressure from left wing pro-queer groups?
Whatever happened to Scouts seeking donations and doing fundraising themselves? The Girl Scouts sell cookies…
wildcat72 on February 6, 2013 at 12:41 PM
So the Keystone pipeline and the homosexual-compliant boy scouts are going to be decided together? Good to know.
tommy71 on February 6, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Boy Scouts sell popcorn!
I also think that both groups have a large amount of corporate funding.
JadeNYU on February 6, 2013 at 12:50 PM
The Regime, of course. They needed the distraction. They like to do things in a back-door sort of way.
CurtZHP on February 6, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Here is a partial list of businesses who fund bsa!
http://www.scoutingforall.org/data/layer02/wycd/refuse.html
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letget on February 6, 2013 at 12:51 PM
21-year old, Eagle Scout Zach Wahls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Wahls
ZachV on February 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM
“Scouting For All is asking our supporters to write to the companies listed below to ask that they STOP contributing to the Boy Scouts of America, an organization that discriminates against gay youth, adults and atheists.”
Now the atheists are pissed? Seriously people, I’m pretty sure GOD is a important part of scouting. Start your own f’in group if that bothers you so much.
What’s next, ‘Get GOD out of churches’?
reddevil on February 6, 2013 at 1:02 PM
Two questions: Boys are minors and not sexually mature, so how can they be gay?
Is there any reason why the gays don’t just start their own group and call it the Gay Scouts?
Urban Infidel on February 6, 2013 at 1:02 PM
[ZachV on February 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM]
Thanks.
Dusty on February 6, 2013 at 1:03 PM
This might have been another thing to put the decision on hold till May?
http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/boy-scout-leader-charged-with-sodomizing-scout/?cat_orig=us
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letget on February 6, 2013 at 1:11 PM
Another motivation here by the BSA is that the annual Friends of Scouting donation drive is getting underway. They may not want to impact potential donations and yet at this point it seems the damage is done.
rsherwd65 on February 6, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Boy Scouts delay decision on gay members until Keystone pipeline is completed.
C’mon guys….this isn’t hard.
BobMbx on February 6, 2013 at 1:17 PM
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
Sachiko on February 6, 2013 at 1:29 PM
But, note, the AT&T CEO is the one pushing for this change.
besser tot als rot on February 6, 2013 at 1:32 PM
Here is link to the list of the major corporate sponsors to the BSA and the one’s that have decided to stop their corporate sponsorship. Most of the these companies do have have policies in force that prohibit discrimination against gays.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/boy-scouts-verizon-protest-lgbt
SC.Charlie on February 6, 2013 at 1:52 PM
Teenagers get slapped upside the head with puberty…you know which sex you find interest in.
Separate but equal.
Blacks in the South had noting to complain about…we gave them their own bathrooms and water fountains, saved the back of the buses for them, right?
JetBoy on February 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Oh how cute, the little gay troll is comparing our refusal to let him redefine marriage to racism.
MelonCollie on February 6, 2013 at 2:11 PM
Sorry, JetBoy, that boat don’t float. This is a private organization, choosing their own membership and leadership. Once again, the homosexual activists are trying to insist that we all approve of their perversion. You want a homosexual camping club, go form your own – you can’t have this one.
Coincidence?
Businesses donate a great deal of money (and material) to BSA and to local Councils and units. It’s necessary unless you just want the rich kids being able to go backpacking and doing interesting activities. Councils usually maintain the various camps, and that is expensive. National maintains the national level camps (SeaBase, Philmont, the new permanent Jamboree camp, etc.). Some of the membership items (books and such) or events are subsidized (we had donations to subsidize one boy for camp who couldn’t otherwise afford it) at various times and places. Goods are often donated for the various Boy Scout projects, as well (like Eagle Projects) – projects that benefit the community in some fashion, or help keep up the camps. Trust me – we couldn’t do it all with popcorn sales and door knocking.
GWB on February 6, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Actually, the reason is because gay men like yourself insist on killing off the next generation.
Here’s a thought for you, JetBoy; instead of screaming about racism, why not scream at your fellow gay bigots who are giving HIV to teenagers?
I can answer that: because you have ZERO interest in the welfare of children and much more in forcing other people to kowtow to your sexual needs. They are on your side; the Boy Scouts are not, and thus must be punished, even though your side is pushing the HIV rate among teenagers to twice that of sub-Saharan Africa.
This is why you pull this racism trick. You have no argument. The facts clearly show that your behavior stinks, and that in fact your behavior towards children is not only reprehensible, but lethal.
Give me ONE reason why you should be allowed anywhere near children. You don’t even have the balls to acknowledge that the gay and lesbian community has a track record of total irresponsibility. And that’s not going to change until bigot gays like yourself who hide behind your sexual orientation demonstrate that you give a damn about anything other than yourself.
northdallasthirty on February 6, 2013 at 2:53 PM
Oh, and by the way, JetBoy, from this point forward, the instant you even TRY to pretend to be a conservative anywhere on Hot Air, I call on everyone here present to link this post and point out how you insist on using governmental power to force the Boy Scouts to accept gay leaders and Scouts, insisting that those who don’t are racists.
Your lies are over. You are a gay-sex liberal, a pathetic lying bigot who puts your sexual orientation ahead of everyone else’s Constitutional rights and demands that government force everyone else to do your bidding.
northdallasthirty on February 6, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Good to hear.. the pressure from Christians on this issue hopefully is making them think twice about this..gotta keep the pressure on them
sadsushi on February 6, 2013 at 5:27 PM
Yup!
catquilt on February 6, 2013 at 6:57 PM