Trouble for Philadelphia Scouts.Just weeks after Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training had adopted a policy in May of not discriminating against gays, the council kicked a Scout leader out for publicly declaring that he is gay. Facing threats from the national BSA 1. BSA - Business Software Alliance. 2. BSA - Bidouilleurs Sans Argent. office to revoke its charter, the council, file nation's third largest, issued a new mission statement just days after the scout's expulsion, saying the anyone who acknowledges being gay may not participate in the Scouts. Within hours of receiving the letter revoking his membership, 18-year-old Greg Lattera, who also lost his job at a summer Boy Scout camp, said he called BSA executive William T. Dwyer Ill. "He said, 'You went and made your sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. open. If you had just kept your mouth shut and been a good scout and employee, you wouldn't have this problem, Lattera told the Associated Press. Lattera's ouster ouster n. 1) the wrongful dispossession (putting out) of a rightful owner or tenant of real property, forcing the party pushed out of the premises to bring a lawsuit to regain possession. sparked protests and accusations that file alleged pro-gay policy was nothing more than a public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most ploy to secure funding from the United Way.--Mubarak Dabir |
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