Good post.
The thing that comes to my mind, as well, is why would a homosexual man open himself up to the possibilty of legal action (possibly prison) by putting himself is such a situation? Or why would the Boy Scout organization risk getting sued by allowing this situation?
All it takes is for a child to say...”he is gay and touched me wrong”.
It makes no sense...politically correct or not.
Boycott Intel, Merc, and UPS, plus AT&T
Unlike the BSA’s Learning for Life, membership in the traditional BSA programs is more restricted and controversial. Girls may not join Cub Scouting or Boy Scouting, but may join Venturing and Sea Scouting; women can be adult volunteers in all programs. The BSA prohibits “avowed” gay and lesbian children and adults from participation, citing its principle to be “morally straight”. The BSA takes a similar prohibitive stance toward both children and adults who are atheist and agnostic, citing its “Duty to God” principle.[35][36][37][38]
In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale that Boy Scouts, and all private organizations, have the constitutionally protected right under the First Amendment of freedom of association to set membership standards.[39] In 2004, the BSA adopted a new policy statement, including the following as a “Youth Leadership” policy:
“Boy Scouts of America believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed. The conduct of youth members must be in compliance with the Scout Oath and Law, and membership in Boy Scouts of America is contingent upon the willingness to accept Scouting’s values and beliefs. Most boys join Scouting when they are 10 or 11 years old. As they continue in the program, all Scouts are expected to take leadership positions. In the unlikely event that an older boy were to hold himself out as homosexual, he would not be able to continue in a youth leadership position.”[40]
BSALegal.org published these policies until February 2010, when it was removed from their website.[40]
At the Scouts annual meeting in April 2012, a leader from the Northeast presented a resolution that “would allow individual units to accept gays as adult leaders”.[41][42] However in July 2012, at the culmination of a review started in 2010, an 11 person committee convened by the BSA reached a “unanimous consensus” recommending retaining the current policy.[43][44] Intel,[45] UPS,[46] and Merck[47][48] cut financial ties with the BSA over the policy decision. Within the BSA National Executive Board, members James Turley, CEO of Ernst & Young, and Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T and who is “on track to become president of the Scout’s national board in 2014”,[49] have publicly opposed the policy and stated their intention “to work from within the BSA Board to actively encourage dialogue and sustainable progress” in changing the policy.[50] On January 28, 2013, the BSA announced they were considering rescinding the ban on homosexuals, allowing chartered organizations to determine local policy.[51]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America