On 5/23/2013 9:38 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
Boy Scouts vote to lift ban on gay youth
May 23 2013

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America voted
Thursday to end its controversial policy banning gay
kids and teens from joining one of the nation's most
popular youth organizations, ditching membership
guidelines that had roiled the group in recent years.
Over 61 percent of Scouting's National Council of 1,400
delegates from across the country voted to lift the ban,
BSA officials said. The final tally was 757 yes votes,
to 475 no.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...couts-vote-to-
lift-ban-on-gay-youth?lite

It's a start. I think a good start. But it's ultimately doomed to either
be expanded to allow gay leaders, or to go back to not allowing openly
gay youth as Scouts. As it stands, a gay young man can be a great Scout
until he turns 18, at which point he is, what, not a great Scout?

I hope the internal pressure of this contradiction will lead to opening
Scouting to gay adult leaders under the same regime of behavior expected
of straight leader. Time will tell.

BTW, FWIW, I am straight, an Eagle Scout, member of the Order of the
Arrow, and was an assistant Scoutmaster. I love me some Scouting, and
wish only that it will be open to anyone who wants to take part in it
under the guidance of the Laws and the Promise.