Boy Scouts to kick out troop for supporting gay members

[TheOldSchool]

The Boy Scouts council in charge of overseeing scout programs in the Washington, DC-area is threatening to kick out a Maryland troop for posting a statement on its website declaring it won't discriminate against gay scouts. The troop has to decide by tomorrow whether to remove the statement.

In September, the families of Pack 442, which is based in Cloverly, Maryland (a small town less than 20 miles from the nation's capital), anonymously voted and overwhelmingly approved to adopt a non-discrimination statement. According to Theresa Phillips, committee chair of Pack 442, the pack wanted Boy Scouts of America to know "we will not stand for the discrimination of homosexual minors or adults whatsoever." Here's the sentence causing the controversy:

Non-Discrimination Policy: Pack 442 WILL NOT discriminate against any individual or family based on race, religion, national origin, ability, or sexual orientation.

Not long after the statement was posted, the National Capital Area Council (NCAC), one of the bigger local councils of the Boy Scouts of America, asked the pack to strike it from the website. "At first they [said] they would "allow" us to leave it up based on our right to freedom of speech. Now they are doing a 180 and basically asking us to either conform to BSA's discriminatory policy or get out," says Phillips.

This would be a pretty big step backwards for tolerance imo. I can see where some parents would worry that homosexuality might "rub off" on their own kids, but it's sad that people still think that it's a choice.

 

[Katzndogz]

They should be kicked out. There are rules. This pack does not want to follow the rules. They have to go.

 

[Againsheila]

This may be a good thing. Kick the pack out that doesn't want to conform to the rules. Let them continue their pack without the Boy Scouts, they could name it something else and start a new organization better suited to some than the Boy Scouts.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This may be a good thing. Kick the pack out that doesn't want to conform to the rules. Let them continue their pack without the Boy Scouts, they could name it something else and start a new organization better suited to some than the Boy Scouts.

This story would definitely turn me off from sending my kids to such an organization. Edit - the boyscouts I mean your idea sounds pretty good

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The Boy Scouts council in charge of overseeing scout programs in the Washington, DC-area is threatening to kick out a Maryland troop for posting a statement on its website declaring it won't discriminate against gay scouts. The troop has to decide by tomorrow whether to remove the statement.

In September, the families of Pack 442, which is based in Cloverly, Maryland (a small town less than 20 miles from the nation's capital), anonymously voted and overwhelmingly approved to adopt a non-discrimination statement. According to Theresa Phillips, committee chair of Pack 442, the pack wanted Boy Scouts of America to know "we will not stand for the discrimination of homosexual minors or adults whatsoever." Here's the sentence causing the controversy:

Non-Discrimination Policy: Pack 442 WILL NOT discriminate against any individual or family based on race, religion, national origin, ability, or sexual orientation.

Not long after the statement was posted, the National Capital Area Council (NCAC), one of the bigger local councils of the Boy Scouts of America, asked the pack to strike it from the website. "At first they [said] they would "allow" us to leave it up based on our right to freedom of speech. Now they are doing a 180 and basically asking us to either conform to BSA's discriminatory policy or get out," says Phillips.

This would be a pretty big step backwards for tolerance imo. I can see where some parents would worry that homosexuality might "rub off" on their own kids, but it's sad that people still think that it's a choice.

True.

Although the BSA is within its right to exclude gay members, or expel those who are gay, at some point – soon, perhaps – they will have to accept gay scouts to remain viable and relevant.

There is nothing about the tenets or values of the BSA that conflict with being homosexual.

 

[Katzndogz]

If anything the BSA will become more exclusive and have far more meaning than it does now.

 

[Sunni Man]

If the homo loving parents want to contaminate the local scout troop with little perverts.

Then they should be kicked out.

And start their own organization and call it the GBSA (Gay Boy Scouts of America)

 

[TheOldSchool]

If the homo loving parents want to contaminate the local scout troop with little perverts.

Then they should be kicked out.

And start their own organization and call it the GBSA (Gay Boy Scouts of America)

Thank you for that lovely insight

 

[hazlnut]

They should be kicked out. There are rules. This pack does not want to follow the rules. They have to go.

...she says as her dog licks his own balls.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

The Boy Scouts of America. Churning out closed minded bigots for over 100 years.

 

[Rozman]

Aren't Boy Scouts kinda young to be going around be all sorts of gay?....
Can't kids be kids for the few short years that they have at that age...
Now they want to be in the Scouts and be all sorts of sexually active...

 

[TruthSeeker56]

Another setback for NAMBLA.

Maybe a new organization should be chartered. It can be called the "Gay Scouts".

 

[Sunni Man]

In about 20 years the parents who were all enthusiastic about letting gay kids into the troop.

Will be wondering why none if their now adult boys aren't married?

And why they don't have any grandchildren?

 

[uscitizen]

From the archives of the Boy scouts:

 

[uscitizen]

All this is richly ironic in view of the fact that the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (raised to the peerage as Lord Baden-Powell) was in probability a gay man himself

Young “Stephe” was a sensitive boy who liked playing with dolls, and as he grew into a young man he formed deep attachments to other boys. Once in the army he made a name for himself playing female roles in army theatricals. Throughout his life he openly admired muscular men and pretty boys, while attractive women sent him into a state of anxiety;

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/scoutings-gay-founder.html?_r=0

 

[Connery]

This is what my Pack statement is:

"We pride ourselves on the diversity of our members, and we are committed to providing young people with an educational and stimulating environment in which to learn and grow. Through the Scout Oath and Law, we pledge to respect all people and to defend the rights of others. Bias, intolerance, and unlawful discrimination are unacceptable within the ranks of the Pack *** Cub Scouts.

Pack *** serves the Community of *** without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation or economic status."

 

[ArmyCowboy]

In about 20 years the parents who were all enthusiastic about letting gay kids into the troop.

Will be wondering why none if their now adult boys aren't married?

And why they don't have any grandchildren?

Wow, some people are still running around thinking you can "catch gay?"

Amazing

 

[Sunni Man]

Young children can be easily influenced.

So it's best to keep your kids away from gays and other perverts.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

Young children can be easily influenced.

So it's best to keep your kids away from gays and other perverts.

The 1950's are calling.

They want you and your idiotically bigoted ideas to come back home.