{"id":6008,"date":"2012-05-01T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T11:12:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-03-10T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:28:16","slug":"board-member-of-boy-scouts-resigns-in-protest-of-lesbian-leader-s-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/05\/board-member-of-boy-scouts-resigns-in-protest-of-lesbian-leader-s-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Board member of Boy Scouts resigns in protest of lesbian leader&#8217;s dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A board member of the Ohio River Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America has resigned in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/removed-lesbian-den-mother-petitions-to-return-to-boy-scouts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Tyrrell (pic), the leader of her son\u2019s Tiger Cub group who was forced out last month because she is gay<\/a>. In his resignation letter to local Boy Scout officials, Sims wrote: \u201cI understand that this action was taken as a result of a standing policy of the Boy Scouts of America and that said action is legal. However, Ms. Tyrrell\u2019s removal goes against my fundamental beliefs of how we should treat our fellow human beings and is, in my opinion, wholly discriminatory. I understand that the Boy Scouts of America is free to run its organization as it sees fit, however, I can not formally be a part of it based upon this policy.\u201d Sims had served on the board since the start of the year and said he was not fully aware of the policy barring gay leaders.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2012\/05\/01\/scout-official-resigns-backs-ousted-leader.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Columbus Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/node\/16843\" data-num-posts=\"2\" data-width=\"470\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A board member of the Ohio River Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America has resigned in the wake<\/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":[29],"tags":[697],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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