Moraga: Gay teen denied Eagle Scout submits petition asking Boy Scouts to change policy

mercury news ^ | 10/19/2012 | rick hurd

[redreno]

PLEASANT HILL -- A gay teenager denied his Eagle Scout award because of his sexuality turned in an online petition with more than 400,000 signatures Wednesday urging the National Boy Scouts of America to change its policies against allowing gay members.

Ryan Andresen of Moraga marched into the front office of the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council on Ellinwood Way along with his parents and a former member of the same Boy Scout troop who came out as gay two weeks ago. Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, also attended and presented Andresen with a resolution honoring his achievements with the Boy Scouts.

"It went about as expected," the 18-year-old said of the meeting with Alan T. Young, the program director for the Council, which oversees Andresen's troop. "I did get a chance to ask what I wanted. I didn't choose my sexuality, just like he didn't choose his. So I asked what made me any less adequate than him. He didn't answer. That says a lot."

Andresen collected 410,564 signatures on an online petition his mother, Karen, posted on Change.org after her son, a student at Maybeck High School in Berkeley, was denied Eagle Scout status after revealing he is gay. Young did not address the media directly, but his office issued a statement that said Andresen was denied his Eagle Scout status because "he does not subscribe to (Boy Scouts') Declaration of Religious Principle' and does not meet Scouting's membership

[Lancey Howard]

Homosexuals target boys who are troubled.

The really sneaky ones actually establish "charitable foundations" for troubled boys.
These foundations become their personal farm system for young new homos.

[fwdude]

...let’s just enjoy the irony or hypocrisy that homosexuals are pushing to loosen the rules of perverts in the BSA in the same week that the BSA files of abuse are released to the public.

This is by design. They are trying to infiltrate while at the same time trying to destroy the BSA. Of course, the two goals are identical, as is the Leftist strategy.

[Varda]

Kids growing up without the security of a traditional family can be desperately needy. The Sandusky victims are certainly classic examples.

[Gilbo_3]

wonder ifn hes got an overbite ???

BSA is constantly gettin hammered anymore...

[sickoflibs]

Why are there two different sexes anyway?
Nature seems very unfair.
It will take Obama more than four years to fix that.

Lilly Bedwetter

[lentulusgracchus]

Why don’t homosexuals establish their own organizations instead of trying to soil traditional ones?

One, they're lazy. Building up an organization is work. They'd much rather take one over, than build up a new one.

Two, it's much more fun discountenancing people you hate, than going off by yourself to seek like-minded company. More fun to drive them out of their own temples, and point the finger and call them outcasts and outlaws.

That's what we're talking about here.

[lentulusgracchus]

(Article, quoting beefing gay)

"It went about as expected," the 18-year-old said of the meeting with Alan T. Young, the program director for the Council, which oversees Andresen's troop. "I did get a chance to ask what I wanted. I didn't choose my sexuality, just like he didn't choose his. So I asked what made me any less adequate than him. He didn't answer. That says a lot."

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Actually, it speaks more to the Scoutmaster's politeness in refusing to engage your dishonest argle-bargle, begged questions, and false premises. But carry on. You'll have plenty of gay shoulders to cry on, as long as you're young and good-looking.

[lentulusgracchus]

Kinda makes me wonder if Ryan helped this other kid come out. That’s why Scouts do not need young perverts in their ranks..

Queers recruit. Among men, only a quarter recruit, but they recruit relentlessly, amorally, and with brutally instrumental pragmatism. They're moral savages. And they complain about us -- there's your first big clue.

[Safetgiver]

So I asked what made me any less adequate than him.....YOU are a pervert of Nature, I am not. Next question.

[NerdOfReason]

Doesn’t this “gay” teen realize how much TROUBLE the Boy Scouts have gotten into for hiring sodomites into the organization?

Homosexuals seem to have a hard time accepting “no” for an answer.

[NerdOfReason]

"If nothing else, it sounds like they have a case for denying him the Eagle Award since he didn’t complete the requirements before his 18th birthday. That’s a hard and fast rule. Even homos don’t get to break it." Good point! I saw the picture of the queer on the article. He looks too grown up to be a Boy Scout. Very shady

[TArcher]

Not Yours.

[TArcher]

Ever.