by Austin Ruse
There’s deception going on in the front office of the Boy Scouts.
It includes deliberate misrepresentation of polling data, and threats
to pack an upcoming meeting with anonymous and unqualified voters so
that the Boy Scout policy on homosexuality gets forced on the majority
of Scouts and parents who don’t want it.
The Boy Scouts are considering changing their policy of not allowing
open homosexuality in either their Scout or leadership ranks. The policy
has placed the Boy Scouts in the buzz saw of the zeitgeist and up until
recently they have resisted. There are some weak-kneed leaders who want
to throw over the policy and appear willing to violate the Scout Law to
do it.
The Scout front office released the result of a national survey and
“listening” process that purported to show that the Scouts—boys,
parents, leaders and donors—favor a change in the policy. The Boy Scouts
say the process reveals great changes in attitudes and that a majority
of those at all levels of Scouting “tend to agree that youth should not
be denied the benefits of Scouting.”
Austin Ruse is president of C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute focusing on international legal and social policy.
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