Despite a compromise allowing conservative church-sponsored units to pick their own volunteer leaders, the Mormon church said it might leave the organization after Monday’s decision to lift a nationwide ban on openly gay adult leaders.
The Boy Scouts of America on Monday ended its nationwide ban on openly gay adult leaders. But despite a compromise allowing conservative church-sponsored units to pick their own volunteer leaders, the Mormon church, the country’s largest sponsor of Scout units, said it might leave the organization.
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is deeply troubled by today’s vote by the Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board,” said a statement issued by the Mormon church moments after the Scouts announced the new policy.