Boy Scouts To Reconsider Ban on Gay Members, Leaders Next Week
The Boy Scouts of America could reverse its decades-old ban on allowing homosexual members and leaders as early as next week, leaving the decision to local troops.
Just seven months after the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed its decades-old ban on admitting gay members and leaders, the organization said it could reverse that policy as early as next week. Scout officials announced on Monday that the organization is considering amending its policy against homosexual participation in favor of allowing local troops to decide on their own, NBC News reports. If the policy change is approved at next week's national executive board meeting the ban would be eliminated from the scout's rules. "The chartered organizations that oversee and deliver scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with their organization’s mission, principles or religious beliefs,” Deron Smith, a spokesman for the …
Renee Cwiek
6:27 am on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
oh please. Do you honestly think all gay people are trying to do something awful to children? It takes a sick person to do something like that. I seriously can't understand how people get this crap into their heads. Most camps do have the policy that Robert Just mentioned. My girls went to girl scout camp and each camper is to always have another camper with them, and they are never alone with a … more ›