Gay scouts

Gay Boy Scouts What By pushing the LGBT ideology on the Boy Scouts, progressives have made homosexuality part of its identity. What happened to its Christian moral code?. Mitchell Jackson. But once upon a time, gays understood strategy better than nearly any other special-interest group in America.

The new LGBTQ leaders

I wanted to know about his experience at the Boy Scouts of America national meeting in May , where he was one of the hundreds of Scouters who voted to end the BSA’s ban on gay youth. Founded in , the Boy Scouts of America has expanded to include the involvement of up to 2. The Boy Scouts of America functions with the assistance of , adult volunteers.

Morally Straight How LGBTQ The BSA lifted the ban on gay and bi youth members at the beginning of , and in , it decided to allow gay and bi adult leaders, with the caveat that church-sponsored troops could still. De Socio — a resident of Troy, NY — tells a story that plays out over the course of nearly forty years, beginning in an era when gay rights were little more than a cultural sideshow; when same-sex marriage was not even on the radar; and when much of the country was recommitting to conservative social mores. In Morally Straight the name comes from the Scout Oath , we meet James Dale, the poster child of Scouting who took his fight for inclusion to the Supreme Court; Steven Cozza, the year-old scout in California who started a movement for inclusion called Scouting for All; Jennifer Tyrrell, the lesbian den mother whose expulsion from the Scouts reignited the gay membership controversy; Zach Wahls, the son of lesbian moms who led the final push for policy change; and an array of other previously unknown Scouters who played smaller roles in the fight for full inclusion.

Scout Marcus in Scout The scouts interpreted that oath to literally mean straight. That policy had a devastating effect on the organization, De Socio argues. It not only ruined the scouting experience for queer youth, it prevented BSA from taking action on real harms facing its kids. “Whether by design or effect, the battle over gay membership served as a forty-year distraction to solving the problem of child sex. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. The organization has announced a name change to emphasize inclusivity.

Scouts LGBTQ The following is an excerpt from "Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts—and America" by scout and journalist Mike De Socio. .

A history of the

Mike De Socio’s Morally Straight (Pegasus Books, ) is a deeply-reported narrative about the battle for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Boy Scouts. .

A sobering lesson from

The first charter for a troop of African-American Boy Scouts was received in for Troop 55, and in the BSA started welcoming young women, allowing female leaders in .

The decades long fight

And Scouts for Equality succeeded in reversing the ban on gay parent participation. In the wake of their success, they first floundered, then found another cause: trans Boy Scouts. Instead of signing up to push for puberty blockers or other unpopular policies that would spur backlash, though, they mostly focused on letting trans kids be, well. .