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BSA Policy, Organization, and Funding

Boy Scouts Legal Issues Web Site Official BSA web site initiated February 3,2004
Scouting and Spiritual Development World Organization of Scouting Movement document that explains history and intent of the "Duty to God" phrase.
Case Study: Darrell Lambert Inclusive Scouting. Includes Darrell Lambert's Appeal Letter, official correspondance with BSA, BSA press releases and related articles.
To identify local United Ways that have adopted anti-discrimination policies that affected their funding relationship with the Boy Scouts search the Inclusive Scouting database.
Diverse community organizations will continue to choose leaders. Indianhead Council response to Feb. 06 national resolution.
Boy Scouts resolution reaffirming "traditional standards" Feb. 06, 2002.
On My Honor Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth. Excerpt from book which combines some history of the "Problem" of God in the Boy Scouts with some commentary.
Official Boy Scouts of America Position Statements. Diversity, School Access, United Way.
BSA Councils Receiving Government Grants. Lists names, locations, years and amounts.
Contentious issues about the Boy Scouts of America. Wikipedia
Greater New York Councils Nondiscrimination Statement.
Companies funding BSA in apparant violation of their own anti-discrimination policy. Bell Atlantic, among others, gives money to BSA in direct violation of their own anti-disicrimination policy.
Excerpt from the original UUA Religious for Life manual. BSA objected to the manual's opposition to BSA membership restrictions. UUA later revised the manual to remove portions which BSA found objectionable.
Scouting Issues FAQ explains and defends BSA policies. Discusses LBP's theism, the DRP, WOSM policy, the federal charter, BSA decision making process, government material and land donated to BSA, private organization status, and more.
Scouts Own. "No man is much good if he does not believe in God ..." is a divisive, negative, disdainful, aggressively sectarian statement found among examples presented as suitable for Scouts Own Service (see Pine Tree Camp Scouts Own Service). U.S. Scouting Service Project web site.
Community Organizations and the BSA. Overview of chartered organization's unit ownership role.
Boy Scouts oust Maryland teen.
The founder of BSA, Ernest Thompson Seton, was a skeptic.
BSA funding and unit ownership.
Example of United Way Criteria for Becoming a Supported Agency. Note 1.E, the nondiscrimination responsibility. Some United Ways have nondiscrimination criteria, others do not. In 1994 United Ways provided $78 million to Boy Scout Councils nationwide.
The required Declaration of Religious Principles.
Examples of nontheological oaths from world Scouting. Accommodating nonbelievers works in these and other countries. Scouting for All claims that Scouts Canada does not Discriminate against gays, girls, or atheists.
Scouting in the Netherlands. Describes how Dutch Scouting avoids discrimination problems by remaining independent and offering program choices.
UUA President describes BSA promise not to define God. September 1985. One of the earlier examples of controversy.
Dissenting former BSA Executive Commissioner faced recrimination.
San Francisco School Board Refuses LFL. Education Week September 25, 1991. San Diego and Berkeley, among others, also refused LFL because of concerns about discrimination. LFL no longer discriminates.