The Longhorn Council, Boy Scouts of America is honored to host James G. Wetrich as its keynote speaker May 24 at their annual Weatherford Support Scouting Luncheon. The purpose of
what my sexuality was. they were proud of me. according to the associated press, membership in the boy scouts of america has dropped by of%. a spokesman tells the associated press, it can partially be attributed to the change. do you think that s the reason? i don t think so at all. the rate in which the boy scouts have been they ve been declining for a while. that s been unfortunate. i actually think what i view personally is that people will start more people will be joining the boy scouts than they have. there s less institutionalized discrimination. once there s full inclusion, i feel like membership will skyrocket. we did ask the boy scouts of america about your achievement. they said, the boy scouts of america has never inquired about the sexual preference of its members, employees, or volunteers. we believe every child deserves the opportunity to be part of the scouting experience, and our policies allow kids who
appropriate in front of kids and to allow open gayness allowing sexually to be flaunted. inappropriate for kids. one of my sons understands home sex ulty and the other doesn t. i don t want it to be introduced by another boy instead of me as a parent. it injects sex into the veins of the boy scouts of america. poppy, both of my moms were in my scouting experience when i was a young kid in the tiger cub program. my mom, jackie, was the cub leader. they were present at meetings together. they didn t have to lie about who they were. if someone asked who was that, she wasn t going to say that s my friend. it s my partner terry or my partner jackie. even though john is trying to scare people saying this is going to radically transform scouting, it really isn t so. the reality is that most of america s other major youth organizations whether girl scouts or 4-h, they have no
view. absolutely. and that was our greatest fear. speaking as an eagle scout myself, i spent more than 12 years in the program. i love scouting, it made me the man i am today, and taught me a lost incredible lifelong skills, gave me some of my best friends. i had some of my most important values. so this is an experience we want to be, you know accessible to all of america s young men. and the reality, if it they had maintained this ban on gay youth, they would have continued to move further and further from the mainstream from where the rest of america is. that s not something we want to have happen. we want the scouting experience available to all men and it is relevant and people want to participate. if you look at the polling data, even the self-identified conservatives, 45 to 42, support ending the ban on gay scouts. so i think that s really a testament about like jonathan was saying, where we are with discrimination not being an american value. equality being an american va