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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Chapters: Violence against LGBT people, LGBT topics and Islam, Hate speech, Gay panic defense, Gay community, Heteronormativity, Judith Reisman, Outing, Gay bashing, Coming out, Boy Scouts of America membership controversies, Societal attitudes toward homosexuality, Sexual orientation and military service, Human male sexuality, Homosexuality in society, Pederasty, List of media portrayals of bisexuality, Socialism and LGBT rights, LGBT parenting, LGBT stereotypes, Media portrayal of lesbianism, Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, Heterosexism, Tabu Homosexualität, Niþ, Men who have sex with men, LGBT people in prison, Metrosexual, LGBT topics in healthcare, MSM blood donor controversy, Mixed-orientation marriage, Separatist feminism, Biphobia, Angst und Vorurteil, Bisexual chic, Anti-LGBT slogans, Commercial Closet Association, Gay-for-pay, Lesbian feminism, Queer theology, Suicide among LGBT youth, Homophile, Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, Bisexual erasure, Closeted, Bacha bazi, Duclod Man, Sexuality and space, LGBT retirement issues, Sex in advertising, American Family Association v. City and County of San Francisco, Trans-bashing, Pink money, Homosociality, LGBT marketing, Homophobic propaganda, Lesbophobia, Sexualism, Heterophobia, Radical lesbians, LGBT topics and Afro-Americans in the Americas, Lavender marriage, Belgrade anti-gay riot, Gender bender, Political lesbianism, Homonegativity, LGBT and multiculturalism, Gay friendly, Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, Fag bomb, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality, Family Fellowship, Sotadic zone, Catamite, Neosexual, Heterosociality, Harem effect. Excerpt: The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit atheists and agnostics from membership in its Scouting program, and prohibit "avowed" homosexual people from leadership roles in its Scouting program as directly violating its fundamental principles and tenets. BSA has denied or revoked membership status or leadership positions of youths and adults for violation of these foundational principles. The BSA contends that these policies are essential in its mission to instill in young people the values of the Scout Oath and Law. The organization's legal right to have these policies has been upheld repeatedly by both state and federal courts. In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed that as a private organization, the BSA can set its own membership standards. The BSA's policies have been legally challenged but have not been found to constitute illegal discrimination; as a private organization in the United States they have the right to freedom of association, as determined in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale. In recent years, the policy disputes have led to litigation over the terms under which the BSA can access governmental resources including public lands. According to its mission statement, the Boy Scouts of America seeks "to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law". All members are required, as a condition of membership, to promise to uphold and obey both of these pledges. The texts of BSA's Scout Oath and Scout Law for Boy Scouting have remained unchanged since they were approved in 1911, and every member agrees to follow them on their application form. Spirituality has been an integra.
