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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
... The BSA does not throw out kids who are homosexuals. The policy applies to adult leaders only. That's just false, CJ. The BSA does not have a policy of waiting until a boy scout reaches majority age before expelling him for being openly gay. Can you cite any statement of Scout policy (or any other evidence) to support your claim? In Dale v. BSA, the Scouts argued that the exclusion of gay members is fundamental to their organizational purpose. In support of that argument, the BSA took the position that their requirement of being "morally straight" is inherently incompatible with being openly gay (or atheist). The requirement to be "morally straight" applies to all Scouts, not just adult leaders; so if "moral straightness" is construed to preclude being openly gay, then gay children too are thereby deemed unfit for Scouting. In an earlier thread here, at least one adult Scout leader acknowledged that he would not refrain, merely because a scout is still a child, from expelling that scout for being openly gay. He did say that his personal inclination would be to try to find loopholes in the policy so as to avoid or delay the child's expulsion. But one could look for loopholes with regard to adult leaders, too, if one were personally so inclined--that doesn't change what the policy is. Keep in mind, too, that the BSA insists that its exclusion of people who are openly gay is *required policy* for individual troops. It may be that many troops covertly defy this policy, but those who do so openly are subject to decertification. Just this month, a troop in Sebastopol, California lost its BSA charter because the troop had an official nondiscrimination policy with regard to sexual orientation and belief about religion. Here is an anecdote ( http://www.inclusivescouting.net/bsa/cases/hill/ ) about Matt Hill, a 14-year-old scout in North Carolina expelled in December, 2000 for being gay after he helped found a gay-straight alliance at his high school. "I have tried to join [another] unit at a pretty liberal minded Presbyterian church but the leader for the troop said that because of the BSA policy they couldn't do it. They did not want to lose their charter with the BSA." --Gary |
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