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Title: Boy Scouts: We're keeping policy banning gays
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msnbc.com
URL Source: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... eping-policy-banning-gays?lite
Published: Jul 17, 2012
Author: Miranda Leitsinger
Post Date: 2012-07-17 13:48:09 by Hondo68
Keywords: forthright and candid conversa, extensive research & evaluatio, best policy for organization
Views: 2143
Comments: 3
The Boy Scouts of America will keep their controversial policy banning gay scouts and leaders after a confidential two-year review, the organization said Tuesday. The announcement comes amid a stepped-up campaign from activist groups urging an end to the membership guidelines. The Boy Scouts convened a committee of volunteers and professional leaders in 2010 to decide whether the policy was still in the organization’s best interests after a resolution was put forward to reconsider it, the private group said in a statement that was first reported by The Associated Press. The conclusion of the evaluation was shared at a February board meeting and recently reviewed by the officers of the board, BSA spokesman Deron Smith said in an email. “The committee included a diversity of perspectives and opinions. The review included forthright and candid conversation and extensive research and evaluations -- both from within Scouting and from outside the organization. The committee’s work and conclusion is that this policy reflects the beliefs and perspectives of the BSA’s members, thereby allowing Scouting to remain focused on its mission and the work it is doing to serve more youth,” the statement said. The review was conducted confidentially "to allow the committee to make the best decision for the organization," Smith said. In June, the Boy Scouts said the organization was considering a resolution put forward at the group's annual meeting that also called for ending the policy. But AP reported that today's decision means the Scouts’ board would take no further action on the June resolution. Boy Scouts review controversial anti-gay policy The Boy Scouts’ policy became a focus of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, when the justices sided with the organization in a lawsuit involving a former assistant Scoutmaster who was gay, citing the protections of the First Amendment. Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout who is the son of a lesbian couple, has recently campaigned for changing the policy, along with Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted from her post as a Tiger Cubs’ den leader in April because she is a lesbian. She started an online petition to seek changes to the Boy Scouts policy. Smith said in an email that the Boy Scouts would accept Tyrrell's petition on Wednesday, but did not plan to discuss the policy. He also said they didn’t expect any further meetings to receive the signatures, about half of which were previously delivered by Wahls at the Boy Scouts' annual meeting in May. Wahls denounced what he said was "the secretive nature surrounding how this conclusion was reached" and called the announcement "old news." "We've heard this line before, and we'll hear it again before this is all said and done. I've said this before and I'll say it again: this will be the official BSA policy up until the day it finally ends," he said in an email to msnbc.com. "Regardless of your thoughts on homosexuality, surely we can agree that gay people who serve our troops and communities deserve our respect and gratitude." BSA board member James Turley, global chairman and CEO of consulting and tax firm Ernst & Young, said in mid-June that he was working within the organization to encourage dialogue on the policy, which is not one he would “personally endorse.” When contacted Tuesday, his firm's media representatives said he would have no comment beyond his earlier remarks. “Scouting believes that good people can personally disagree on this topic and still work together to achieve the life-changing benefits to youth through Scouting," the BSA National Executive Board said in the statement. "While not all Board members may personally agree with this policy, and may choose a different direction for their own organizations, BSA leadership agrees this is the best policy for the organization and supports it for the BSA.”
Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted as a den mother for her son's Cub Scout troop because of her sexual [dis]orientation, is fighting back. Tyrrell talks to msnbc's Thomas Roberts about her petition to change the Boy Scouts of America's long-standing policy on banning gays and lesbians.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
God Bless the Boy Scouts for standing firm for RIGHT! FTW
I firm rejection of Mitts Gay Scout Pedophiles.
. LOL! You are such a brain dead fuck hondope. Mittens isn't going to running the Boy Scouts you stupid bitch. Yeah, "genius" I DISAGREE with him on this and MANY other points MORON. But mittens doesn't HATE America and isn't busy RAPING and KILLING the US CONSTITUTION right NOW is he MORON? LOL! Suck my azz MORON, I'll vote for a cheese sandwich before I stain my soul voting for YOUR messiah "king" obammy, (which includes WASTING my vote on a TOTAL LOSER, ie. your wee hero ronniePAULIE, who has ZERO chance of winning so thereby HELPING YOUR messiah "king" be re-elected). I hear he's a MORMON too fuckwad! What are you dim bulb? like 12 years old? you sure act it regarding the subject of YOUR own GAY fantasies with mittens. We normal people don't need or want to hear about that creep. MORON.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe committee’s work and conclusion is that this policy reflects the beliefs and perspectives of the BSA’s members, thereby allowing Scouting to remain focused on its mission and the work it is doing to serve more youth,” the statement said.
#2. To: Mad Dog, Church of the Latter Day Homo Pedophiles, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#1)
God Bless the Boy Scouts for standing firm for RIGHT!
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