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In reply to the discussion: NBC News: Boy Scouts Close to Ending Ban on Gay Members, Leaders [View all]Gothmog
(145,321 posts)56. Most if not all of World Scouting Organizations reject the BSA policy
Most of the Boy Scouting organizations in other nations reject the BSA policy. The UK Scouting organization started accepting homosexual leaders a long time ago http://www.bsa-discrimination.org/html/uksa-media.html I really love the response of the Swedish scouting organization on this issue http://www.bsa-discrimination.org/html/uksa-media.html
It is the position of the Swedish Guide an Scout Association that no member should be expelled or discriminated because of his/her sexual preferences and it is with sadness in our hearts we note that the Boy Scouts of America does not share our values in this respect. The Swedish Guide and Scout Association, however, recognize the sovereignty of all National Scout Associations and we respect that the Boy Scouts of America has the right to have its own opinion. Still, the General Assembly decided unanimously, to express its differing position on homosexuals in Guiding and Scouting. Expelling, or in other way discriminating a person because of his/her sexual preferences is, in our belief, not a way of showing understanding, friendship and tolerance.
The Swedish Guide and Scout Association believes that through an openhearted discussion National Scout Associations are brought closer together. Therefore we are hoping that the Boy Scouts of America takes the opportunity to express its official position in homosexuals in Scouting and the Boy Scouts of America, by this letter will again reconsider its position in homosexuals in Scouting.
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I don't have children but I have insisted that family members with sons do just as you have done
Blasphemer
Jan 2013
#76
The proposal would not leave the decision to the units, but to the chartering organization.
Xithras
Jan 2013
#90
Here you go - Catholic and Mormon bigots won't change. No hope for Arizona Scouting.
dbackjon
Jan 2013
#93
They would just be following President Obama's lead on Gay Rights being a local issue
dbackjon
Jan 2013
#18
Many of us involved in scouting have LONG said that this was a simple compromise.
Xithras
Jan 2013
#10
I'd never participate in an organization that had an official no gays/no atheists policy, though.
Arugula Latte
Jan 2013
#70
"other organizations have threatened to withdraw their financial support if the BSA drops the ban."
KamaAina
Jan 2013
#27
One of the New York Councils has stated that it was ignoring the national policy
Gothmog
Jan 2013
#54