Opinion: Ban on gays hurts Scouting
(CNN) -- When I was 10, the school that hosted my Cub Scout pack told us we needed to find a new home. The Boy Scouts of America's policy of prohibiting gay Scouts and Scoutmasters -- which the Supreme Court had recently affirmed -- violated the school's nondiscrimination policy. I was confused, because my den mother, Jackie -- who is my actual mother -- was a lesbian, and nobody in our unit had any issue with that. The school district in Iowa City, Iowa, was adamant. We had to go. It would not host an organization that discriminated against gay people. We managed to find an alternative sponsor, a church not too far away. My mother continued to be den mother. But some parents pulled their kids from the pack, uncomfortable with entrusting their sons to an organization they believed engaged in discrimination.
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If Boy Scouts drop the ban on gay members, Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout, predicts it will only help the organization.
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