Posted on 01/09/2013 4:05:32 AM PST by lowbridge
SAN FRANCISCO – A review board has challenged the Boy Scouts of America's prohibition on gay members by recommending a local teenager for the rank of Eagle Scout, but the action won't have an immediate effect on the young man's status, his father said Tuesday.
The four-member board unanimously approved 18-year-old Ryan Andresen's application on Dec. 31 and hand-delivered it to the Mt.Diablo-Silverado Council's leadership, the boy's father said.
The board agreed to review Ryan's qualifications after the Moraga teen's scoutmaster refused to sign off on the paperwork after Ryan came out as gay last fall.
But the staff executive has refused to forward the recommendation to the national organization for final approval, leaving the board's endorsement as only a moral victory for the boy's family. Eric Andresen said he didn't expect national Boy Scout leaders to support his son, but is still disappointed.
"Ryan always hasbeen the mentoring type, the big brother type.He saw this as not only an opportunity,but a responsibility to try to make change, and he has said it many times that he doesn't want any other Scout to have to go through this," Andresen said. "It's just blatantly unfair."
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This is the beginning of the end for Boy Scouts.
Scout oath includes mentally awake and morally straight. A promise Ryan has compromised and a critria he lacks to achieve the honor of Eagle.
Typical liberal intolerance. All their talk about respecting others’ beliefs goes out the door when there’s something they want.
That's the worry, hence the ban...
But the staff executive has refused to forward the recommendation to the national organization for final approval, leaving the board’s endorsement as only a moral victory for the boy’s family. Eric Andresen said he didn’t expect national Boy Scout leaders to support his son, but is still disappointed.
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In other words, propaganda.
Isn’t there actual news happening now?
Intolerance is not an issue. The action is a deep cut, merely one of the thousand being inflicted to destroy that which is opposed to the liberal mantra.
The day is here where liberals must be exterminated. No live ant let live will save us from destruction.
The tyranny of the law has destroyed America
Translation: Grooming younger boys for use as sex-partners, just as probably happened to him, whether in the Scouts or another context.
The new frontier in abuse lawsuits: boys who were homosexually abused by older (but still "minor") boys.
The action brings the troop leadership under scrutiny. The Troops charter should be revoked.
>>The tyranny of the law has destroyed America
No, theh perversion of the Law by the Tyranny of the Majority has destroyed America.
The BSA is a private organization and had its standards. The morally/mentally-ill State of Kalifornikate’s action means zero. Stay the course, BSA.
carriage_hill
Eagle Scout
Class of 1963
Why won’t the gay community set up their own gay boy scout outfit versus the non-gay organization? Call it “rainbow scouts”?
The Boy Scouts of America is a private youth organization.
>>The Boy Scouts of America is a private youth organization.
A private youth organization constituted by Law.
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=The+Scout+Law
Law which this turd burglar and his “reviewers” would like to see perverted to suit their own self-evident amorality.
Rainbows are a gift from God as a promise to man never to flood the world again. Homos don’t own the rainbows
They did, back circa 1933 IIRC it was called the NAZI party.
http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm
NEVER AGAIN.
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