[fwdude]

Does anyone in the know know if this new policy is a mandate or permission (vastly different)? In other words, must a scout unit accept an avowed homosexual boy, or may they accept an open homosexual?

[MacNaughton]

26 Does anyone in the know know if this new policy is a mandate or permission (vastly different)? In other words, must a scout unit accept an avowed homosexual boy, or may they accept an open homosexual?

5/23/2013 – Boy Scouts of America Statement http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/MembershipStandards/Resolution/results.aspx

"... This policy change is effective Jan. 1, 2014, allowing the Boy Scouts of America the transition time needed to communicate and implement this policy to its approximately 116,000 Scouting units. ..."

Translation - We will be told at the appropriate time.