{"id":2015,"date":"2015-07-14T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T19:59:26","slug":"boy-scouts-board-unanimously-votes-to-end-ban-on-gay-scout-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2015","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scouts board unanimously votes to end ban on gay scout leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By John Mack Freeman<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America voted 17-0 to recommend to end the organization&#8217;s ban on gay and bisexual adult leaders of scout troops. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/boy-scouts-vote-unanimously-to-cool-it-with-all-that-homophobia-20150713\">Queerty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?This change allows Scouting?s members and parents to select local units, chartered to organizations with similar beliefs, that best meet the needs of their families,? a?BSA statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago,?former US defense secretary and current president of?BSA Robert Gates called for an end to the ban, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/the-hidden-truth-behind-robert-gates-change-of-heart-on-gay-scout-leaders-20150521\" target=\"_blank\">warning Scout executives<\/a> that ?we must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,? and that ?any other alternative will be the end of us as a national movement.?<\/p>\n<p>A month before Gates? comments, the Scouts? New York chapter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/ny-boy-scouts-challenge-national-gay-ban-by-hiring-out-camp-counselor-20150404\" target=\"_blank\">openly defied the ban<\/a> by hiring?18-year-old?Pascal Tessier as a camp counselor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision will go to a full vote of the full 80-member executive board for approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America voted 17-0 to recommend to end the organization&#8217;s ban on gay and bisexual adult leaders of scout troops. Via Queerty: ?This change allows Scouting?s members and parents to select local units, chartered to organizations with similar beliefs, that best meet the needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[207,208,209,96],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-boy-scouts","tag-boy-scouts-of-america","tag-lgbt-discrimination","tag-lgbt-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}