Reply #56: If any one council and the troops in it are quietly accepting

[ThomCat]

Atheist and Gay members, good for them. That's awesome. But those members all have to stay in the closet because if the national body finds out not only do they get kicked out, but your council could get its staff booted out too.

You can blame the mormons. Go ahead. But the BSA changed the rules.
The BSA embraced the rules.
The BSA defended those rules all the way up to the Supreme Court.
The BSA defended those rules to the United Way and to funding organizations and city councils and community groups coast to coast arguing that they were not only the right thing to do, but necessary in order to protect kids.

That doesn't sound like being blackmailed into doing something they didn't want to do.

I won't talk about you directly. Only you know what you think or feel about LGBT people. Of course I hope you put even a fraction of this much energy into helping LGBT rights.