Minute on Scouting
From FGC's Central Committee Minutes, November 2000
| In the unprogrammed tradition of the Religious Society of Friends we
have many examples of Friends individually and collectively laboring with
issues, individuals, and organizations with whom we disagree. We are in
disagreement with the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) policy to discriminate
in its membership against men and women who are homosexuals. In our experience,
many men and women who are homosexual have ministered in leadership roles
in all aspects of Friends' religious life, including the care and nurture
of our children and youth.
Friends believe that God is present and at work in each of us and that through worship and prayer we can know God's work for us. We have expressed this work in our testimonies of peace, equality, and integrity. We affirm that God calls us to love and respect each person regardless of race, of gender, or of sexual orientation or identity (gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered). There is no place in God's creation for discrimination one against another. Living in the occasion of God's love, we are called to continued engagement with the BSA and their policy of membership discrimination within the structure of Friends Committee on Scouting and their representation to the BSA's Religious Relations Committee. See also: Friends Committee on
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