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In reply to the discussion: NBC News: Boy Scouts Close to Ending Ban on Gay Members, Leaders [View all]Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)79. It is important for one reason.
This is the simple breakdown:
The LDS made the BSA their youth program a few decades ago. They got their hooks in and started making demands. Policies began changing and it put the BSA in an awkward position:
* Move into the 21st century and pretty much lose a big chunk of existing membership all at once with the exit of the LDS membership, or
* Slowly bleed to death as more and more of society rejects their backwards policies.
They chose the 2nd option twice, but the recent backlash has shown it isn't sustainable. (I am not sure such policies are sustainable in the LDS church, either. That is another topic for another day.) It also demonstrated how much of their own membership rejected the policy.
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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