Word: boying
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...Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas, is controlled by another faction in the debate, those for whom "morally straight" definitely means sexually straight. In recent years, members of the Mormon church have become a powerful force within scouting. Today nearly 10% of the members of the Boy Scouts Advisory Council live in Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Latter-day Saints constitute less than 2% of the U.S. population but 21% of the boys in the core Boy Scouts program, more than any other group...
...most wrenching internal controversies for the Scouts have involved gay boys, not gay leaders. Local scoutmasters routinely allow boys who come out to remain in scouting, though if headquarters finds out, locals risk losing their charter. In August a 16-year-old eagle scout applied for a job at Camp Yawgoog, a Boy Scout retreat 30 minutes west of Providence, R.I. Camp director Gary Savignano, reeling from a recent pedophilia scandal, asked the boy if he was gay. When the boy said yes, Savignano told him he couldn't have...
...ensued, and someone eventually pointed out that Rhode Island has a law against anti-gay discrimination. The local Scout council issued a statement offering the kid the job. But when the men at Scout headquarters heard about the controversy, they had spokesman Gregg Shields confirm that the boy can't be a scout if he is gay. The local council quickly backtracked, reaching an uneasy compromise with headquarters: the boy kept the job--and his scouting membership--but he had to agree not to talk about being gay. Since then, the United Way and other funders have been under pressure...
Most such skirmishes are on hold as everyone waits for the Supreme Court. In the meantime, the Boy Scouts try to remain an organization where no one talks about homosexuality in an age when everyone talks about...
Throughout the Elian drama, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has held that only the boy's father has the legal right to speak for him and that a boy his age cannot be expected to comprehend the meaning of an asylum request. But in a unanimous ruling, the three judges of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit went out of their way to criticize the INS for not taking into consideration Elian's stated wish to stay in the U.S. The judges noted that when Congress wrote the 1980 immigration law, it specified that "any alien...may apply for asylum." Since...