Via The Huffington Post:
The Mount Diablo-Silverado Council conducted a survey of over one million adult members about homosexuality in the organization. The results showed that 65 percent of respondents and 81 percent of current Scouts favored dropping the ban.
In the council newsletter, Scout Executive John Fenoglio vowed to use the results to push back on the national ban.
"It was not just the data that was so compelling; many of the responses got to the heart of the issue," wrote Scout Executive John Fenoglio in the council newsletter. "As an example, respondent number 104: 'We are so proud of everything scouting does for our sons and our community, but we are so ashamed of the national anti-gay policy. Please change the national policy, so that we do not have to apologize to our friends and family that our son is an Eagle Scout.'"
This is great news and perhaps this can put some pressure on the national council to drop their support of discrimination.
Many Eagle Scouts have returned their Eagle badges in protest of the policy. I still have mine but I am not proud of having earned it. It was a lot of work and I learned a lot but right now there is a cloud hanging over it. I don't tell people I was in scouts because I feel ashamed that I have been involved with the organization for so long.
Hopefully soon, those feelings will fade along with the policy.
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