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Related: About this forumBoy Scouts open ranks to gay youth on Jan. 1
The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year's Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades.
Yet despite their be-prepared approach, BSA leaders are rooting for the change to be a non-event, comparable to another New Year's Day in 2000 when widespread fears of digital-clock chaos to start the new millennium proved unfounded.
"My hope is there will be the same effect this Jan. 1 as the Y2K scare," said Brad Haddock, a BSA national executive board member who chairs the policy implementation committee. "It's business as usual, nothing happens and we move forward."
Some churches are dropping their sponsorship of Scout units because of the new policy and some families are switching to a new conservative alternative called Trail Life USA. But massive defections haven't materialized and most major sponsors, including the Roman Catholic and Mormon churches, are maintaining ties.
http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Boy-Scouts-open-ranks-to-gay-youth-on-Jan-1-5098227.php
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)descriptive to us. Then they could team up with DD and also repeal the civil rights laws of the 60's. These people are similar to those that brought the inquisitions and the Salem Witch trials, just gotta have some one/group to persecute to make them feel good with thiere despicable and ungodly hatred. I pity the children reared by these creatures.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)As if there haven't ever been gay boy scouts before. LDS is in for a lot of surprises if they think that's the case.
BillStein
(758 posts)Who else, besides me and my soon-to-be-husband, were gay scouts?
I made life scout in 1966
I know of at least 1 other kid in my troop who was (heard it later in high school).
"Trail Life" scouts will be filled with kids of bigoted parents. It sounds like a party for them until they figure out some of their kids are gay too. Who to blame then?
DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)It's weird how being sexually attracted to other guys has absolutely no effect on my abilities to do anything else in life.