The UUA and the Boy Scouts of America:
A Continuing Struggle for Inclusiveness

Debates, Public Discussions, Opinions

• DEBATE: Between John Buehrens and John Rankin, October 23, 2000:
  "Can Homosexuals Be Proper Role Models As Scouts And Scout Leaders?"

  Click here for a written transcript of the debate.

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• STATEMENT: The Rev. John Buehrens, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, June 28, 2000

  "We regret the Court's decision, which is a setback for justice, human rights, and non-discrimination. The Boy Scouts cannot have it both ways. If they are allowed to discriminate, then it is time to end their access to public facilities such as public schools and to consider revoking their Congressional charter. Unitarian Universalists and others know that it is homophobia that is the sin, not homosexuality. We call upon the Boy Scouts of America to end their discrimination against gays and also to end their discrimination on the basis of religious belief, including discrimination against Unitarian Universalists and others whose definition of God is different from the Boy Scouts'."

  UUA Press Release on Court Decision

• OPINION: Meg Riley, Director of the UUA Washington, D.C. Office, September 29, 1999
  Boy Scouts should study religious freedom, not just gays.

• PUBLIC DISCUSSION: Unitarian Universalism and the Boy Scouts
  A workshop presented at the 1999 UUA General Assembly, featuring speakers Michael Healy and The Rev. John Buehrens.

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