Beverly Eagle Scout Protests Ban on Gay Members, Boy Scouts To Reconsider Policy Next Week
The Boy Scouts of America could reverse its decades-old ban on allowing homosexual members and leaders as early as next week, leaving the decision to local troops.
Just seven months after the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed its decades-old ban on admitting gay members and leaders, the organization said it could reverse that policy as early as next week. Back in August, Beverly resident A.J. Chalifour, a Troop 6 Eagle Scout since 2002, was one of thousands nationally who protested the longstanding policy. "Until this policy is erased, myself and many of my fellow Eagle Scouts, scouters, and peers will work to get the National Council to wake up and support a policy of inclusion rather than a policy of active discrimination which fails to live up to the tenants of the Scout oath and law,” Chalifour wrote, according to Boston.com. Scout officials announced on Monday that the organization is …
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David Williams
1:03 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
The Boy Scouts of America teaches young men to base their lives on God and Country. It requires that they take an oath to do so and live by it. The Scout Oath says the following: "On my honor I will do my best To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight." To change their … more ›