{"id":11313,"date":"2013-03-29T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=11313"},"modified":"2013-03-29T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:43:29","slug":"boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Heather Clark<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <em>Christian News Network<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs two important cases on homosexual marriage, scout leaders and parents of scouts have announced the <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>formation of a coalition to keep the ban on open homosexuality in the Boy Scouts of America. The coalition converged in Orlando, Florida over the weekend, where 15 scoutmasters representing 13 states spoke to the media. \u201cWe don\u2019t think sex and politics should be injected into Boy Scouts,\u201d declared John Stemberger, a former scoutmaster who now works as an attorney. \u201cThis change is not needed; it doesn\u2019t change any existing problems and could cause even more problems.\u201d Others present warned that if the Boy Scouts of America changes its policy on open homosexuals, then it can expect to see a lot of parents pulling their sons out out of the organization, as well as leaders resigning in a mass exodus. <a href=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/2013\/03\/28\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-homosexual-members-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Heather Clark Christian News&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,17,113,179],"tags":[59,2919,2932,2920,2939,1737],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage","category-children-at-risk","category-homosexuality","category-child-abuse","tag-america","tag-signs-of-the-times","tag-homosexuality","tag-politics","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-boys-scouts","wpcat-257-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-113-id","wpcat-179-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders - From the Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Heather Clark Christian News...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"From the Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LighthouseTrailsResearch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-29T14:35:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-03-29T14:43:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Miscellaneous News Source\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Miscellaneous News Source\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Miscellaneous News Source\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9fdbcbd48da5f29bb452804f6cac87fd\"},\"headline\":\"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-29T14:35:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-03-29T14:43:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":167,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/christiannews.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"America\",\"Signs of the Times\",\"Homosexuality\",\"Politics\",\"Same-Sex Marriage\",\"boys scouts\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Same-Sex Marriage\",\"CHILDREN AT RISK!\",\"Homosexuality\",\"Child Abuse\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/\",\"name\":\"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders - From the Lighthouse\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/christiannews.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-29T14:35:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-03-29T14:43:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9fdbcbd48da5f29bb452804f6cac87fd\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/christiannews.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/christiannews.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"From the Lighthouse\",\"description\":\"&quot;A Light Shining in the Darkness&quot;\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9fdbcbd48da5f29bb452804f6cac87fd\",\"name\":\"Miscellaneous News Source\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ae5ed7321390b0777703fc89a380c78854f42226a02207a7d093580adc2e5935?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ae5ed7321390b0777703fc89a380c78854f42226a02207a7d093580adc2e5935?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ae5ed7321390b0777703fc89a380c78854f42226a02207a7d093580adc2e5935?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Miscellaneous News Source\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/misc\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders - From the Lighthouse","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders","og_description":"By Heather Clark Christian News...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/","og_site_name":"From the Lighthouse","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LighthouseTrailsResearch","article_published_time":"2013-03-29T14:35:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-03-29T14:43:29+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Miscellaneous News Source","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@LTrails","twitter_site":"@LTrails","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Miscellaneous News Source","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/"},"author":{"name":"Miscellaneous News Source","@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/9fdbcbd48da5f29bb452804f6cac87fd"},"headline":"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders","datePublished":"2013-03-29T14:35:09+00:00","dateModified":"2013-03-29T14:43:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/"},"wordCount":167,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg","keywords":["America","Signs of the Times","Homosexuality","Politics","Same-Sex Marriage","boys scouts"],"articleSection":["Same-Sex Marriage","CHILDREN AT RISK!","Homosexuality","Child Abuse"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/","name":"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders - From the Lighthouse","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg","datePublished":"2013-03-29T14:35:09+00:00","dateModified":"2013-03-29T14:43:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/9fdbcbd48da5f29bb452804f6cac87fd"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Scouts-3-300x199.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/boy-scout-leaders-form-national-coalition-to-protect-ban-on-openly-homosexual-members-leaders\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Boy Scout Leaders Form National Coalition to Protect Ban on Openly Homosexual Members, Leaders"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/","name":"From the Lighthouse","description":"&quot;A Light Shining in the Darkness&quot;","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/9fdbcbd48da5f29bb452804f6cac87fd","name":"Miscellaneous News Source","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae5ed7321390b0777703fc89a380c78854f42226a02207a7d093580adc2e5935?s=96&d=blank&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae5ed7321390b0777703fc89a380c78854f42226a02207a7d093580adc2e5935?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae5ed7321390b0777703fc89a380c78854f42226a02207a7d093580adc2e5935?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Miscellaneous News Source"},"url":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/author\/misc\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}