What do we want gays in scouts

The Scouts were meant for ALL families, not just religious conservatives. The focus was on nature and the outdoors. I never thought of BSA as a primarily religious organization. Mormons and Baptists miss the point of Scouting: They rarely form mixed groups, often meeting in churches and holding religious services.

US Boy Scouts welcome gays

However, there's also real financial pressure from the other side. According to CBS News, about 70 percent of Boy Scout troops are sponsored by a religious group; one-fourth of all Scout troops are sponsored by the Mormon and Catholic churches alone. And while a growing majority of Americans believe same-sex couples should be allowed to wed, that still leaves more than 40 percent of the country opposed-and they don't want homos left in charge of their kids, or anyone's kids, for that matter.

What Do Boy Scouts (and the Wall Street Journal) Want?

We want our 2nd Ammendment rights to be protected and we don't want to be discriminated against simply because we are gun owners. The media likes to paint us as a bunch of irrational, paranoid nutjobs who don't care about kids. We all know that's not true. Don't sink to that level and use that same sort of tactic against another group just because you have your personal reasons for disagreeing with their choice of partner.

The Complex Reality of the Boy Scouts’ Gay Ban

Last May, the Boy Scouts' national council voted 61 percent to no longer deny membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation -- although it retained a ban on gay and lesbian adult Scout leaders. Prepared to be among the first openly gay Eagle Scouts is Pascal Tessier, 17, from the Washington suburb of Kensington, Maryland who with his local troop had publicly campaigned for the Boy Scouts to change its policy.