Updated: Boy Scouts resolution proposed to Southern Baptists; BSA leadership change advocated

A resolution on the Boy Scouts of America will be presented to the Southern Baptist Convention by its Resolutions Committee today (June 12) voicing "our continued opposition to and disappointment in" the Scouts' action May 23 to open its membership to openly homosexual boys.

The resolution will be voted on by messengers to the SBC annual meeting in Houston.

Southern Baptists would call for a change in Scouting's "executive and board leadership" who, according to the proposed resolution, intended to proceed with the change unilaterally until a news report in late January derailed their plans to open Boy Scout ranks to both openly homosexual leaders and members.

Opening Scouting to openly homosexual youth "has the potential to complicate basic understandings of male friendships, needlessly politicize human sexuality, and heighten sexual tensions within the Boy Scouts," the proposed resolution states. Read more

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