IRVING, Texas — Faced with intense pressure from two flanks, the Boy Scouts of America said Wednesday it needed more time for consultations before deciding whether to move away from its divisive policy of excluding gays as scouts or adult leaders.
Possible changes in the policy — such as a proposal to allow sponsors of local troops to decide for themselves on gay membership — will not be voted on until the organization’s annual meeting in May, the national executive board said at the conclusion of closed-door deliberations.
As the board met over three days at a hotel in Irving, near Dallas, it became clear that the proposed change would be unacceptable to large numbers of Scouting families and advocacy groups on the left and right. Gay-rights supporters said no Scout units should be allowed to exclude gays, while some conservatives, including religious leaders whose churches sponsor troops, warned of mass defections if the ban was eased.
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12 comments:
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I just don't get it why do liberals always want to change everything. Look if you don't like a group start your own group but but leave the boy scouts alone.
Young males' hormones are kicking in and they are experimenting an learning. In my local scout troop on a camp-out several of my friends,8th grade age, started experimenting sexually on each other, which they later regretted.
Homosexuality has no place in the boy scouts.
the special thing about this country is that you can have a group that gets together because a set of specific beliefs and forcing them to change their belief system for any reason is anti-american.
Stay strong boy scouts stick to what is right.
The homosexual lobby will not be happy until we become the United States of Sodom and Gomorrah. I was a boy scout and the thought of these perverts turning that organization into a pervert's paradise sickens me. It is time for the normal 95% to stand up and fight back like we did when the homosexuals attacked Chick Fillet. Enough is enough.
1:14 said it right. Mass Defections is right too. These clowns that are the supposed 'leaders' , board members at this meeting, etc. better get their f'in heads screwed on straight if they want the scouts to exist going forward.
The boy scouts not letting homosexual young males to attend meetings is their choice. But the Boy Scouts is also discriminating against gay parents of heterosexual youth. That does not seem right.
I agree with anon 1:14.
Our country should have learned a lesson from the reason as to why Sodom and Gomorrah were annihilated.
I don't understand why the U.S. is constantly giving in opening doors for these sick and perverted gay rights groups.
2:35 that is yet another SICK problem in the U.S.
Gay parents should have no rights whatsoever to raise children. They are very bad influences and may encourage their children to be gay themselves, which is TWISTED!
So now the boyscouts should agree to sanction vile behavior?
Okay....I don't think so!
235, and let's make room for parents who murder, rape, uncles aunts, serial killers, mass murderers, stop and rob robbers! Why stop at gays? Social deviance is social deviance!
Deviance is being promoted here.
Deviance means "To depart from the socially accepted norm"
How much deviance do you want to accept? Wait till your mother gets murdered, or your child raped?
Last question, and it's a hard one; Are you an idiot?
PLEASE respond!
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