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Dozens of anti-gay rallies will be held across the nation today in a last-minute bid to pressure the Boy Scouts to keep their ban on openly gay scouts and leaders.  Backing the campaign, you’ll be shocked to know, is the Family Research Council.

“The Boy Scouts may not realize it yet, but they’re voting on a lot more than just dropping the prohibition against open homosexuality next Thursday. When the National Council meets in Texas on May 23, homosexuality is just a preview of the broader strategy to redefine the Scouts. In USA Today, the drumbeat has already started to topple the BSA’s …

Six more nasty clips just went up on their channel.

ABC News reports on their latest poll: Backing is widest and deepest for Collins, with 68 percent of Americans saying they support the NBA center’s decision to announce his sexual orientation. Those who “strongly” support his step outnumber his strong critics by a 3-1 margin. A substantial 63 percent in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, also …

“The Episcopal Church wants all aspects of the ban lifted, as does the National Jewish Committee on Scouting, whose former chairman, a Baltimore lawyer named Jay Lenrow, told me that while no troop should be forced to choose a gay leader, no troop should be prevented from doing so, either. “He noted that our country was founded on a principle …

After years of legal battles, Philadelphia’s local Boy Scouts group has agreed to abandon the city-owned building they’ve occupied rent-free for 85 years.  The city has agreed to pay the Boy Scouts $825,000 for physical improvements they made to the facility. The group’s rent-free use of the building came under fire after the Boy Scouts of America barred gays from …

“The latest proposal for ending the BSA’s ban on homosexual participation in Scouting is a strategic ploy. What is most disturbing is that it uses the young participants in the Scouting movement as cannon fodder in the battle against the natural family. Some youngsters will be positioned to draw other youngsters into situations where, because they react against sexual advances …

The Mormon Church has posted a statement in which they back the Boy Scouts USA plan to allow openly gay Scouts, but not gay leaders. Here is the statement in full: Over the past several weeks BSA has undertaken the difficult task of reviewing its membership standards policy. In their own words, this undertaking has been ‘the most comprehensive listening …

Via Memeograph.

Above is an excerpt from the Boy Scouts USA’s document titled “Membership Standards Study Initiative Executive Summary.” Embiggen to read. (Via JMG reader David)

Openly gay leaders, it appears, will remain banned. Reuters has the news: The Boy Scouts of America called to end a long-standing ban on openly gay members, a spokesman said on Friday, but the organization’s board must still vote in May on whether to ratify the resolution. If the vote is approved, “no youth may be denied membership in the …

The latest bile from the Family Research Council.

Details. (Tipped by JMG reader Rob)

“The same Madonna with song titles that couldn’t be read aloud on network television, even invoked Christ. ‘It’s so absurd. What did Jesus teach? Love your neighbor as yourself.’ It has always amazed me how people who have done everything possible to push God and His standard from our country feel free to invoke this passage of scripture. It only …

Hit the headlines for the vitriol.

(Via Towleroad)

Yesterday GLAAD reported that the band Train has also pulled out of the event.

Note the horrible anti-gay signs. Those poor kids. (Via Good As You)

“Bishop” Harry Jackson appeared on the 700 Club yesterday to say that the Boy Scouts “probably have dirty laundry that is being held over their heads” by gay activists.