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Updated 9:11 PM ETIRVING, Texas Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays. Whatever the organization eventually does, it s likely to anger major constituencies and worsen schisms within Scouting.The delay, which the Scouts attributed to the complexity of this issue, was announced Wednesday after closed-door deliberations by the BSA s national executive board. Under consideration was a proposal to ease the longstanding ban on gays by allowing sponsors of local troops to decide for themselves on the membership of gay Scouts and adult lead stanley cupe ers.As the board met over three days at a hotel near Dallas, it became clear that the proposal would be unacceptable to large numbers of impassioned Scouting families and advocacy groups on both the left and right.The iconic youth organization i stanley cup s now deeply entangled in the broader cultural and political conflicts over such issues as same-sex marriage stanley cup and religious freedom. Tilting toward either side will probably alienate the other, and a midway balancing act will be difficult.Gay-rights supporters contend that no Scout units anywhere should exclude gays, and vowed to maintain pressure on the BSA s corporate donors to achieve that goal. Some conservatives, including religious leaders whose churches sponsor troops, warned of mass defections if the ban were even partially eased. They urged supporters to flood headquarters with phone calls. Rxhz The Internet Hall of Fame s 2014 Inductees
This short time lapse by Bruce W. Berry Jr is already a powerful piece of work. It turns the buildings of Philadelphia into towering monoliths that hide people away, it mak stanley thermos es the sky look like ghouls seeping in and it turns the city into stanley cup a stanley termoska haunting place. Sadly though, the story behind this time lapse is even more powerful. The time lapse is dedicated to a man Bruce W. Berry Jr saw commit suicide off the Ben Franklin Bridge. He writes: The experience is something that I ;ll never forget. The mood was so heavy and dark that one could feel the loss of the person life in the air. I can only imagine what this person saw and felt the day he took his own life; what the city must have felt like and looked like to him. It was pretty hard to shoot this time-lapse without thinking about what I had witnessed. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter. philadelphia
Updated 9:11 PM ETIRVING, Texas Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays. Whatever the organization eventually does, it s likely to anger major constituencies and worsen schisms within Scouting.The delay, which the Scouts attributed to the complexity of this issue, was announced Wednesday after closed-door deliberations by the BSA s national executive board. Under consideration was a proposal to ease the longstanding ban on gays by allowing sponsors of local troops to decide for themselves on the membership of gay Scouts and adult lead stanley cupe ers.As the board met over three days at a hotel near Dallas, it became clear that the proposal would be unacceptable to large numbers of impassioned Scouting families and advocacy groups on both the left and right.The iconic youth organization i stanley cup s now deeply entangled in the broader cultural and political conflicts over such issues as same-sex marriage stanley cup and religious freedom. Tilting toward either side will probably alienate the other, and a midway balancing act will be difficult.Gay-rights supporters contend that no Scout units anywhere should exclude gays, and vowed to maintain pressure on the BSA s corporate donors to achieve that goal. Some conservatives, including religious leaders whose churches sponsor troops, warned of mass defections if the ban were even partially eased. They urged supporters to flood headquarters with phone calls. Rxhz The Internet Hall of Fame s 2014 Inductees
This short time lapse by Bruce W. Berry Jr is already a powerful piece of work. It turns the buildings of Philadelphia into towering monoliths that hide people away, it mak stanley thermos es the sky look like ghouls seeping in and it turns the city into stanley cup a stanley termoska haunting place. Sadly though, the story behind this time lapse is even more powerful. The time lapse is dedicated to a man Bruce W. Berry Jr saw commit suicide off the Ben Franklin Bridge. He writes: The experience is something that I ;ll never forget. The mood was so heavy and dark that one could feel the loss of the person life in the air. I can only imagine what this person saw and felt the day he took his own life; what the city must have felt like and looked like to him. It was pretty hard to shoot this time-lapse without thinking about what I had witnessed. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter. philadelphia