Posted on 04/02/2015 1:10:40 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The New York chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has made history by hiring an openly gay adult — and telling bigotry to take a hike.
They have hired a gutsy 18-year-old Eagle Scout named Pascal Tessier to work as a camp counselor this summer at the Ten Mile River Scout Camp in upstate New York.
And nobody is prouder than his mom.
“I am,” said Tracie Felker, who lives in Hagerstown, Md., when asked about her boundary-breaking boy.
“It’s not a brave thing he is doing,” she added. “It’s something necessary, something that needs to be done.”
Legal eagle David Boies, best known for leading the fight against California’s anti-gay marriage law, said Tessier “embodies the best qualities of an Eagle Scout, and of America.”
“Permitting him to continue his service to scouts and to scouting is the right decision for the Boy Scouts, and for our community,” he said.
“In the past, barring boys and adults from being scouts and scout leaders solely based on their sexual orientation hurt them, hurt scouting, and hurt our communities. Ending that discrimination is an important step in putting an ugly chapter of American history behind us.”
Zach Wahls of Scouts for Equality called the hiring of Tessier a "watershed moment."
"For the first time in the history of the Boy Scouts, an openly gay adult will join their ranks as a camp counselor," he said. “Pascal Tessier was the first out gay scout, and now it appears that he will also be the first out gay leader.”
But in hiring Tessier, the New York scouts may have set up a potential showdown with the Texas-based national leadership of the one of the country's largest, most venerable youth organizations.
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Fudge pack.
Camp cancellations starting in 3, 2, 1....gone.
He’ll be talking to himself.
So count down to the sex abuse lawsuit...
He’s going to continue servicing scouts?
Well at age 18 he wouldn’t be in violation of “Romeo & Romeo” exception to adult-minor sexual relations.
The Catholic church has the scars to prove that this is a very, very, very bad idea.
The Fudge Pack
okay, I am way way way late
Troop, not pack
It’s the FABULOUS one. #WhoWantsToErectMyTent
And this is why I resigned as an Assistant Scout Master and pulled my son out of the Boy Scouts.
“What pack number is this?”
If I understand correctly, multiple troops go to this camp.
“Many units attend TMR for two or more weeks.”
http://www.tenmileriver.org/gen/pgm/leaders_guide_2014.pdf
You know I wonder how many of them would be eager to allow a single straight guy be a girl scout “counselor”. Single guy all alone in the woods with a bunch of young budding virgins, what could *possibly* go wrong?
Yea, a gay counselor of young boys. What could go wrong?
its the pack your kids off to rape camp
Freedom to choose (”discrimination”) is our right, our privilege, and our duty. It really don’t matter what others call our free choices.
If they could change this by hiring a gay guy, what would stop them from changing the sleeping arrangements by now allowing an adult to share a tent with the boys?
thats funny
And if a sexual offense takes place, I suppose some deep pocketed NYers will pay off the family? And if the family won’t back off...
If the national leadership has ANY republicans - don’t expect any kind of confrontation or act that requires a spine.
But in hiring Tessier, the New York scouts may have set up a potential showdown with the Texas-based national leadership of the one of the country’s largest, most venerable youth organizations.
All part of the plan.
They did it in Indiana. Now it's on to the Boy Scouts.
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