{"id":6157,"date":"2012-08-03T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T09:51:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-03T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T09:51:34","slug":"more-and-more-eagle-scouts-return-badges-to-protest-policy-banning-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/08\/more-and-more-eagle-scouts-return-badges-to-protest-policy-banning-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"More and more Eagle Scouts return badges to protest policy banning gays"},"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>Bill DeVos, a Scoutmaster in upstate New York, packed up his Eagle Scout medal, badge and knot, and mailed the awards to the Boy Scouts\u2019 headquarters in Texas. The 56-year-old father of two Eagle Scouts said he didn\u2019t want them as long as the organization kept its ban on gay Scouts and leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not an easy thing to give up your Eagle. It sounds silly, but it\u2019s very emotional, you know, if you\u2019ve been in Scouts as long as most of us guys have \u2026 it just means a lot,\u201d DeVos, an architect from Rochester, told NBC News. \u201cBut it\u2019s more important for it (the badge) to do something good for others \u2026 I can look at it and be sentimental about it, but it\u2019s what it does for others that means more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/02\/13074659-eagle-scouts-return-badges-to-protest-policy-banning-gays?lite\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/node\/17003\" data-num-posts=\"2\" data-width=\"470\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill DeVos, a Scoutmaster in upstate New York, packed up his Eagle Scout medal, badge and knot, and mailed the<\/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":[26,195],"tags":[697],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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