SBC Executive Committee President meets with Scout leaders, stands firm

The Boy Scouts will lose members and the support of faith-based organizations if it changes its policy on homosexuality, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee told two top Boy Scouts leaders in a meeting Thursday (March 7).

EC President Frank S. Page met in Nashville with Boy Scouts Chief Executive Wayne Brock and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who serves on the Boy Scouts executive board and is a past president. Brock and Tillerson urged Page to continue supporting the Boy Scouts if the organization overturns its policy preventing homosexual leaders and members.

The Boy Scouts board is expected to put the issue before its 1,400 voting members at Scouting's national convention in May. The proposal would remove the national rule and replace it with a local option, whereby each sponsoring organization would decide the policy.  Read more