The following comes from an August 13 Bay Area Reporter article by David-Elijah Nahmod. The Bay Area Reporter describes itself as serving the LGBT community:
Earlier this year, the California Supreme Court voted unanimously to accept a 2014 recommendation from its ethics advisory committee to ban Boy Scouts membership because the organization discriminated against gay troop leaders. That meant that state judges affiliated with the Scouts would be found in violation of the state Code of Judicial Ethics.
Last month, the Scouts national executive committee voted to lift the ban on gay troop leaders although it allows for a religious exemption and many Scout troops are affiliated with churches, mostly Mormon and Catholic denominations.
Justice Richard Fybel, chair of the Advisory Committee on the Code of Judicial Ethics, spoke to the Bay Area Reporter about what the new Scout policy means for California judges who might wish to participate in the youth organization.
Fybel is an associate justice on the 4th District Court of Appeal, and is based in Orange County.
“Existing canon prohibits judges from being in an organization that discriminates based on sexual orientation,” Fybel said. “There are exceptions for military, religious, and nonprofit youth organizations.”
Fybel said that effective January 2016 the exemptions for religious organizations will remain, but that the other exemptions will be lifted.
Since many Boy Scout units are affiliated with local churches, and therefore able to deny leadership positions to openly gay scoutmasters, the question of what the policy change means for the participation of state judges remains up in the air.
“I’m pleased to see the national Boy Scouts organization take the position not to discriminate,” Fybel said.
Some Catholic Diocese have already shown their concern for the welfare of Boys and Ended ‘scouting’ – replacing it with programs that do not require mandatory pandering to Evil,
As a former scout and supporter it grieves me deeply – but It is time the Church ‘Man Up’ and make a clean break with an organization no longer willing to keep itself clean.
SSAD – but True
BTW – When State Senator Mark “kiddie Porn King” Leno and a democrat legislative body unfit to pass gas Banned Judges from associating with Scouts, they effectively Purged Catholics too.
How will the Church fare in Court before judges chosen specifically because of their Hatred for the Wise Moral Teachings of the Catholic Church?
Stay tuned – the lawsuits are flying already.
For all practical purposes the Girl Scouts and now the Boy Scouts are dead. They are just a money maker for the people at the top at the national level; the children get very little of it, and the cookies and popcorn are way overpriced. I have not given to the Girl Scouts here in California in over fifteen years, and now I will give nothing to the Boy Scouts. It will just become a recruiting center for NAMBLA. The best thing to do is for mother and fathers is to take their own children camping, or go with other trusted family members with children or groups of friends with good character.