Leaders' national ad exhorts Scouts to avoid 'grave mistake'

With Boy Scouts board members potentially set to lift the organization's ban on homosexual troop leaders and members, some of the nation's leading pro-family groups ran an ad in USA Today Monday urging the Scouts to stand by their current policy -- and the groups urged readers to contact the Scouts as well.

The Boy Scouts board is meeting this week, and it could lift the prohibition a mere six months after reaffirming it. Boy Scouts spokesperson Deron Smith told Baptist Press via email no decision had been made on whether the board will vote on the issue, but if there is a vote, it would take place Wednesday.

The Scouts apparently are receiving significant pressure via phone calls and emails to keep their current policy, which prohibits open homosexuals from being troop leaders or members. Read more