Never let the Boy Scouts of America be accused of flip-flopping.
Eric Jones is a 19 year old Boy Scout who is in his fifth summer working as a camp counselor for the Scouts. Eric was in the process of coming out as gay, and he decided that it was time "to have my life in scouting and my other life come together." So he told the camp director, hoping that they would make an exception to the no-gays policy since he'd been involved with the camp for so long and they knew him well.
He was wrong. They fired him.
Two years ago, top Scout leadership formed a special committee to study the policy. They have also just released their report, which reaffirms the official BSA policy that excludes gays, both as scout leaders and as scouts.
They say the majority of parents support the decision. Right. The ones who have not already taken their sons out of BSA rather than let them be part of such a discriminatory group. Their opinions, of course, were not surveyed.
Ralph
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