BSA: Gay, OK?!

[cbayer]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/joannabrooks/6796/bsa___gay__ok_/

January 29, 2013 11:34am
Post by JOANNA BROOKS

The Boy Scouts of America has announced that as early as February 6 it may rescind its policy against allowing gay and lesbian adults to serve as troop leaders. The policy change would not, according to BSA, prevent local church-backed troops from maintaining their own policies on LGBT leadership.

It’s estimated that 34% of the nation’s Scout troops are affiliated with congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LDS Church has not responded to the BSA announcement. But some Southern Baptist leaders registered moral outrage.

Pressure from without and within is hastening conversation on LGBT issues within the Scout organization. n just one example of many grassroots efforts to push back against homophobia within the BSA organization, one California BSA Council is challenging the national organization’s policy against awarding the Eagle Scout award to an openly gay 18-year-old.


Major donors including UPS and Merck have reportedly discontinued donations in view of the BSA discrimination policy, and it’s reported that internal lobbying by corporate CEOs on the organization’s national board is also playing a role.


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[Pab Sungenis]

1. And if your local troop excludes LGBT

you're free to start a competing local troop. There are no franchises under the Scouts.

Free market, baby.

[trotsky]

2. Atheists still not welcome.

But nobody really gives a shit about that.