I am pretty sure that if Lord Baden-Powell was alive today he would be opposed to the ban on openly gay people from joining or working with the Scouts. The Scout movement should be open to all regardless of religion and encouraged as it gives young people something to do other than hanging round on street corners.
The UK’s scouting movement from which BP started the world-wide movement already has an inclusive policy, so hopefully you are right. BP himself may well have been gay, so it would have been hypocritical of him to be otherwise. Of course, if it’s true that he was gay, the American Scouts would have expelled him….
There are no actual proposals to end the ban they’re simply shifting it from a national policy to a local policy. Local scout organisations will still be able to prohibit gay members and volunteers if they so choose. This is quite a cynical ploy to make it seem like they’re being inclusive so they can get their funding back whilst not really being inclusive at all.
That is correct. And even if they allow gays, the BSA have avowed to continue to shun atheist children. It’s not just teh_Jesus now … but ya gotta believe in some old god or other! Makes no feckin’ sense.
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I am pretty sure that if Lord Baden-Powell was alive today he would be opposed to the ban on openly gay people from joining or working with the Scouts. The Scout movement should be open to all regardless of religion and encouraged as it gives young people something to do other than hanging round on street corners.
The UK’s scouting movement from which BP started the world-wide movement already has an inclusive policy, so hopefully you are right. BP himself may well have been gay, so it would have been hypocritical of him to be otherwise. Of course, if it’s true that he was gay, the American Scouts would have expelled him….
There are no actual proposals to end the ban they’re simply shifting it from a national policy to a local policy. Local scout organisations will still be able to prohibit gay members and volunteers if they so choose. This is quite a cynical ploy to make it seem like they’re being inclusive so they can get their funding back whilst not really being inclusive at all.
That is correct. And even if they allow gays, the BSA have avowed to continue to shun atheist children. It’s not just teh_Jesus now … but ya gotta believe in some old god or other! Makes no feckin’ sense.
They’re letting girls into the Boy Scouts I agree banning gay or bi scouts MUST end! If not remove their charitable status.
Obama just gets better and better…