Boy Scout rejected for Eagle Scout after coming out gay (USA TODAY Coverage)

[Whovian]

Jerks.

1:20PM EST October 5. 2012 - A California couple says their 17-year-old son, who has been a Boy Scout for more than a decade, has met all the qualifications to become an Eagle Scout, but has been blocked by his scoutmaster for the group's highest honor because he is gay.

Ryan Andresen, who recently came out to his friends and family as gay, has completed his final project in his bid to become an Eagle Scout.

It was a "tolerance wall" he built to oppose bullying in school by using tiles illustrated by elementary school students, the San Jose Mercury News says.

The scoutmaster for Troop 212 in Moraga, Calif., told 17-year-old Ryan's father, Eric, the troop's chief administrator, on Sunday that his son wouldn't be able to get the award, NBC News reports.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/ondeadline/2012/10/05/boy-scouts-of-america-eagle-scout-gay/1614769/

[sharp_stick]

1. I used to love being a Boy Scout

unless they change their policies I can't see a way that I'd take either of my two boys into the organization.

[xfundy]

2. They only want to molest straight boys.

Bastards.