{"id":6006,"date":"2012-04-30T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-30T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:53:02","slug":"romney-s-support-for-gays-in-boy-scouts-fuels-debate-on-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/04\/romney-s-support-for-gays-in-boy-scouts-fuels-debate-on-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney&#8217;s support for gays in Boy Scouts fuels debate on ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A video from 1994 reveals that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports the inclusion of gay and lesbian scouts and leaders in the Boy Scouts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts, regardless of their sexual orientation,\u201d said Romney in a video from a 1994 U.S. Senate debate in Massachusetts. Romney served on the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Romney\u2019s statement echoes the opinion of more than 250,000 people &#8212; including current and former boy scouts and scout leaders who have joined Ohio mom Jennifer Tyrrell\u2019s campaign on Change.org urging the Boy Scouts of America to stop expelling gay scout leaders and discriminating against gay and lesbian scouts. Tyrrell was recently ousted as scout leader of her 7-year-old son&#8217;s cub scouts troop because she\u2019s gay. Video of Romney\u2019s remarks can be seen here: http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/equalityscouts.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Article adapted by Proud Parenting from original press release<\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/node\/16841\" data-num-posts=\"2\" data-width=\"470\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video from 1994 reveals that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports the inclusion of gay and lesbian scouts and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,64],"tags":[12370,533],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Romney&#039;s support for gays in Boy Scouts fuels debate on ban - 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