Boys Scouts Could Soon End Gay Ban
WOW! Finally! The Boy Scouts are finally caving to pressure, to change their ways!
As early as next week, the Boy Scouts of America may announce it will
allow gay Scouts and troop leaders, a spokesman for the group has told
USA TODAY.
allow gay Scouts and troop leaders, a spokesman for the group has told
USA TODAY.
The Boys Scouts have been losing funding left and right over the last year.
If this policy shift is approved by the national board meeting next
week, it will be a sharp reversal of the Scouts’ decades’ old national
policy banning homosexuals.
“The policy change under discussion
would allow the religious, civic or educational organizations that
oversee and deliver Scouting to determine how to address this issue,”
BSA spokesman Deron Smith said in a statement to USA TODAY.
The announcement comes after a campaign to change the policy that lasted
more than a year and garnered more than 1.2 million online signatures
at Chang.org, according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD), an advocacy group.
more than a year and garnered more than 1.2 million online signatures
at Chang.org, according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD), an advocacy group.
“The Girl Scouts, 4H Clubs and the U.S. military are fully inclusive,
and that’s what we need from the Boy Scouts of America,” GLAAD said.
“Until then there will be young people out there who are harmed by
this.”
and that’s what we need from the Boy Scouts of America,” GLAAD said.
“Until then there will be young people out there who are harmed by
this.”
