Kevin Forrester

Boy Scouts of America (BSA)
Mission Statement

“The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.”

Scout Oath

“On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.”

Scout Law

“A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.”

Not a word of the Mission Statement, the Scout Oath, or the Scout Law says anything about sexual orientation. The Boy Scouts of America is not about sexual orientation, it is about scouting.

Nor does the BSA have a sexual orientation policy, it has a membership policy clarified by BSA legal as follows:

“The BSA policy is: ‘While the BSA does not proactively inquire about the sexual orientation of employees, volunteers, or members, we do not grant membership to individuals who are open or avowed homosexuals or who engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the BSA.‘

Scouting believes same-sex attraction should be introduced and discussed outside of its program with parents, caregivers, or spiritual advisers, at the appropriate time and in the right setting. The vast majority of parents we serve value this right and do not sign their children up for Scouting for it to introduce or discuss, in any way, these topics.

The BSA is a voluntary, private organization that sets policies that are best for the organization. The BSA welcomes all who share its beliefs but does not criticize or condemn those who wish to follow a different path.”

(Emphasis added.)

The BSA is for boys who are 11 (and in some cases 10) through 17 years of age. Sexual orientation is not part of the BSA’s agenda, or mission, for these 11 through 17 year-old boys. The BSA is only concerned with the issue of sexual orientation when others, whether they be “employees, volunteers, or members,” wish to make the issue of sexual orientation a part of the BSA’s mission.

And the BSA reserves the right to deny membership to those individuals who are open or avowed homosexuals or who engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the BSA. That is all.

Why?

Because the Boy Scouts of America is not about sexual orientation, the Boy Scouts of America is about scouting.

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Dear Fellow UCSD Alumni:

Please join me in celebrating the first 50 years of the University of California at San Diego by watching the following UCSD Alumni Success Story:

In our ongoing commitment to raising student scholarship dollars, our Alumni Association is reaching out to you and me to help achieve our Association goal of 10,000 alumni donors by June 30, 2012.

As a further inducement (if any is needed after watching the above video) the Executive Committee of our Alumni Association has pledged to donate $10,000 if we are able to add 1,000 donors by June 30. Any contribution in any amount to our Alumni Loyalty Fund, also known as our Alumni for Students Fund, will help us achieve our goal.

Please click here and make your contribution now in any amount to the Alumni for Students Fund or any other UCSD fund (and then scroll back up and re-watch the UCSD Alumni Success Story video!)

Thank you.

Kevin Forrester
UCSD, John Muir College, 1980
Director, UCSD Alumni Association, 1985-2011
General Counsel, UCSD Alumni Association 1992-present

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