Interesting. It seems that the BSA might just be ashamed enough to drop its prohibitions against gay scouts and scout leaders. Under the proposal, individual troops can continue to be bigoted and maintain the gay ban, but the national organization will not revoke the affliation of scout groups who choose to a bit more inclusive.
Naturally, conservatives are outraged.
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, said a policy change would be "nothing less than disastrous for the Boy Scouts of America." ...
"This is going to raise a fundamental question for the Southern Baptist Convention at the national level and in the churches" about whether to reconsider a decades-old relationship with the Boy Scouts, Mohler said.
While that decision would be up to individual Southern Baptist churches, Mohler said: "I'm quite assured that those churches will be reconsidering that relationship if this policy goes into effect."
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins called the potential policy shift "a serious mistake."
They just cannot abide that they might be associated with the taint of teh gay, even though their own packs and troops can continue to be as hateful as they want to be.