What You Can Do
Scouting For All's National Campaign
Schools and Government

This includes the military, municipalities, schools, police and fire departments, PTA's, etc. We ask that you reexamine your relationship with the BSA in light of your own anti-discrimination policies. Insist that discrimination be prohibited by any group that uses your services and or facilities. We ask all school districts to think about the message that you would be giving our gay and straight students if you allowed organizations that discriminate against gay youth such as the Boy Scouts of America to use your school facilities and allow adult BSA leaders to recruit in your schools. Just think about the harmful message you would be giving our gay and straight youth.

Scouting For All asks school districts throughout the United States of America to support GSA clubs (Gay Straight Alliance Clubs) by granting permission for students to establish them in your school district high schools.

Gay Youth often experience deep feelings of rejection and loneliness and GSAs offer our GLBTQ youth support and our straight youth understanding and acceptance. Scouting For All has devoted our effort in the memory of Robin Reed and to all gay youth who have taken their lives because they felt rejected, like they didn't belong. Eagle Scout Steven Cozza started a GSA at the high school he attends, Petaluma High School in 2000. This was the same high school Robin Reed had attended. If Petaluma high School had had a GSA in 1995 the year Robin Reed took his own life, Robin may still be alive today! GSAs are saving lives! Lets embrace all of our youth by establishing GSAs in every high school in America! The power for healing change is in your hands. Together let's make it happen.

For information on how to start a GSA at your high school go to www.studentprideusa.org

The Scouting for All team, which includes our board of directors, regional and assistant regional directors and consultants are available upon request to provide you consultation and support.
Click Here to Contact Scouting for All

Question the Use of Public Facilities by the Boy Scouts of America - If your state is not listed and you are aware of action taken against the BSA to oppose its policy of discrimination in your area of the country please alert Scouting For All by sending us your information to info@scoutingforall.org. Scouting For All will post your information on our web page to help inspire other communities to also take a stand against the BSA's policy of discrimination.

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• Alaska - Boy Scouts, Military, ROTC Allowed in Schools
• National Boy Scout Organization Agrees to End All Local Government Direct Sponsorship of Troops and Packs:
• Scout controversy centers on schools
• Corvallis School District ignores anti-discrimination policy
• This is a copy of my presentation at the Berkley School Board, Berkely, California
• Boy Scouts of America in Public Schools? Check out GLSEN's Resources at www.glsen.org or www.glsen.org/pages/sections/bsa/
• The BSA Leadership Just Doesn't Get It: Their Discrimination Is so Blatant That They Are Blinded By Their Own Bigotry. Here is a case Example - Redwood Empire Council Boy Scouts of America, Santa Rosa California
• How Your Tax Dollars Support the Boy Scouts of America: what you can do to protest the BSA's exclusion policy
• Cities and School Districts Across America: Reacting to the BSA's Bigoted Policy
• The Archaeology Community Questions Whether to Support the BSA Because of It's Anti-Gay Policy
• The BSA is a Public Accommodation the Supreme Court Got It All Wrong
• How the Senate Voted on the Helms Amendment
• Helms Amendment Redundant in Light of 1984 Equal Access Act
• Arizona Schools and Cities Remain Free to Sanction Groups that Discriminate
• Arizona Boy Scouts, Churches Protest U.S. Forest Service's Rising Fees
• Sheriff Baca, Long Beach, California, Rejects BSA's ban on Gays, says Local Troops Should Decide / Explorer Program May Get Pulled
  • Click here for more information on Sheriff Baca
• The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday Voted 11-0 to Cut the City's Ties with the Boy Scouts of America
• Santa Barbara, California, City Council Agrees to Sever Ties with the Boy Scouts of America Until the BSA Rescinds its Anti-Gay Policy
• The Human Rights Commission of Davis California says the BSA is in Clear Violation of the City of Davis' Anti-discrimination Ordinance
• Santa Barbara California City Council Denounces the Boy Scouts of America
• The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors told the BSA They Couldn't Use Its Facility Free of Charge as Long as They Had a Discriminatory Policy
• Davis, California, Human Rights Commission Opposes the BSA Policy of Discrinimation
• Davis, California, Davis Joint Unified School district Sends disclaimer with BSA Recruitment Literature
• ACLU sues Boy Scouts, San Diego, California
• Human Relations Commission, Davis, California
• S.F. judges cut links to Boy Scouts because of policy on gays, lesbians
• Court of Appeal rules against Berkeley Sea Scouts
• City passes letter criticizing Boy Scouts again
• California's top court limits judges' membership in Boy Scouts
• Judge says use violates separation of church and state
• LETTER: Supporting diversity
• Boy Scouts of America and its Desert Pacific Council Gets What It Deserves No Lease for a Discriminatory Organization
• Calif. Supreme Court Takes Up City Ban On Scouts Over Anti-Gay Policy
• The Connecticut Human Rights Organization Affirmed Its Earlier Decision to Exclude the Boy Scouts from the State Employee Fund-raising Campaign
• Miami Dade School Board Bans Scouts from Facilities
• Broward School Board evicts 60 Boy Scout, Cub Scout troops over anti-gay policy (with updates)
• The Walton Manors, Florida City Council approved a human rights ordinance prohibiting the use of city funds and facilities to private organizations that discriminate.
• West Palm Beach, FL City Commissioners Objected to Donating Public Money to the BSA Because of Its Policies Toward Gays
• Palm Beach County, Florida, Two Jewish Community Centers Asked the BSA to Leave Because of their Policy of Discrimination
• PFLAG Pinellas, Florida is standing Strong Against the Discrimination of the BSA: The BSA Should NOT Receive any Special Privileges in Our Public Schools Until It STOPS Discriminating Against Gay Youth and Adults and Atheists
• The Broward School District Should Be Proud That They Stood Up Against The Discrimination of the Boy Scouts of America
• Oak Park, Illinois Beye Elementary School says, if the Pack won't write an anti-discrimination statement then they must "GO".
  • Further update on Oak Park
• Scouts' campsite deal put on hold Concerns raised about gay policy, public usage
• The letters from the IL ACLU and the BSA: reply over government BSA charters
• Winkler decision striking down the statute supporting the Jamboree as unconstitional:
• Local Scouting groups take steps in face of ACLU threat
• Boy Scouts shut dad out of events at public school
• Lip service only to diversity on Purdue campus
• GLSEN Kentucky Launches Boy Scout Campaign to Get the BSA Out of Schools
• Counties Should Not Be Supporting Any Boy Scouts of America Scouting Unit
• Charging Scouts For School Space Illegal, Suit Charges
• Board refines list of groups that can send home fliers
• To Members of the Montgomery County School Board
• Bennett School Principal Leo Melanson has Decided to Stop the Schools Sponsorship of a Local Cub Scout Pack Because of the BSA's Policy of Exclusion
• Acton School Committee Tells the BSA They Cannot Distribute BSA Literature in Its School
• Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, sayy Detroit May Cut Funding to the Boy Scouts of America
• Successful suit against Boy Scouts discrimination in the state of Michigan
• Citizens trying to save the Boy Scout House on Morgan Hill will not get financial aid from the city.
• Minneapolis schools OK scout materials
• Scouting for All Writes to the New Jersey State Police: Government Agencies Should NOT Be Supporting Any Organization that Discriminates Against Any Segment of Our Society
• Scouting For All Alliance for Human Rights member, PFLAG Albuquerque, NM Speaks Out
• Raleigh, NC Chapel Hill - Carrboro School System: The BSA Policy of Discrimination is in Direct Conflict with the School District's policy of Inclusion
  • (updates on the Chapel hill - Carrboro School District)
  • (for further information on the Carrboro School district)
• Raleigh, NC Chapel Hill - Carrboro School System: The BSA Policy of Discrimination is in Direct Conflict with the School
• Boy Scouts ask Mauldin for fee waivers
• East Hampton, Long Island, New York, Accepts Scout Units Anti-discrimination Statements and Rejects the BSA Policy of Discrimination
  • (updates)
• The New York City, the nation's largest school system will greatly scale back its relationship with the Boy Scouts due to
  the Scouts' policy of barring openly Gay members
• Newburgh, NY Gay Residents, Say Scouts Should Not Be Allowed to Use School Buildings
• Sgt. Edgar Rodriguez New York Police Department, says "if organizations like the Boy Scouts were to teach tolerance, they could help prevent hate crimes".
• Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch says NYC should Deny Supporting the BSA as long as the BSA Discriminates
• Edgar Rodriguez, Officer for the NYPD says the Boy Scouts of America's policy Hurts Kids!
• Syracuse University's Carrier Dome to no longer host BSA 'Boy Power' fund-raiser
• Faculty urges United Way boycott - Hamilton College teachers upset with Boy Scouts' position on gays
• Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
• Gay Ban Gets Scouts Barred From Syracuse U.
• The Latest On Powell vs. Oregon Department Of Education Case
• Oregon Court Says BSA Can Recruit In Schools / Court Ignores The BSA Discriminates And Thereby Hurts All Children
• Portland Family Says The Boy Scouts Of America Should NOT Be Allowed To Recruit In Our Public Schools or Use School Facilities As Long As It Discriminates Against Gay and Atheist Children And Adults
• Portland Public Schools STOP Supporting The Boy Scouts of America
• Boy Scouts of America Should Not Be Using Public Facilities Until Its STOPS Discriminating Against Gays and Nontheists, Oregon
• Action Taken Against The BSA In Portland Public Schools
• Alpha Phi Omega of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA is Asked to Stop Supporting the BSA
• Link with Scouts draws fire
• Scouts' gay stance clouds use of land
• City says scouts' use of land is in jeopardy
• For Those Who Oppose The Bigotry Of The BSA National Leadership, We Have A Victory - Scouting for All
• Scouting for All and Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia's Letter To Mayor Street of Philadelphia
• What a Boy Scout should be... Cheltenham is only one public body that is wrestling mightily with the Boy Scouts' right to exclude gay and atheist youths.
• Some Letters To The Commissioners of Cheltenham, PA Asking That They Disassociate From The Boy Scouts of America
• Boy Scouts and commissioners are still searching for a solution. Cheltenham officials will hold meetings about the local troops' free use of a township property.
• More Letters To The Cheltenham, PA Commissioners: Don't Support The BSA
• Township fosters talks on Scouts (PA)
• City poised to evict Boy Scouts council
• Board debates school visits by Boy Scouts
• Board debates school visits by Boy Scouts
• ACLU threat causes Boy Scouts to drop public school ties; churches urged to fill void Mar 9, 2005 By Jeff Robinson
• Letter To Tyler, Texas, City Council Trustees: The City of Tyler Texas is considering giving their local BSA scout council land use for $1.00 per year.
• Our US Armed Forces, Texas, Should Not Be Supporting A Discriminatory Organization Partnership introduces Sea Scouting to area SEA SCOUTING
• Scouts' access to area schools being reduced Using class time is banned; Henrico also limits flier distribution
• The Safe Schools Coalition of Washington has asked, Seattle Public Schools to Restrict the Boy Scouts of America's Access to Students and School Buildings
• Kimball Elementary Writes to the Chief Seattle Council of the BSA and says, No More Use of Our School as Long as the BSA Discriminates
• Chief Seattle Boy Scout Council, Agree to Allow High School Group Not to Discriminate, Seattle, Washington
• Scouting For All Supporters Write Letters to the University of Washington Results in the UW Dropping Boy Scout Night
• Hugh Scout Troop From Garfield High School, Seattle, WA, Resigns From The Boy Scouts of America and Joins An Alternative Outdoor Youth Program, The Mountaineers
• Executive Board Resolution of the Communication Workers of America on Discrimination by the Boy Scouts of America
• The Madison, Wisconsin School Board's Resolution Statement on the Boy Scouts of America
• Action Wisconsin a Congress Human Rights nonprofit, says "the Wisconsin State Assembly Came to a Compromise on the BSA Issue"
• City Council of Madison Wisconsin Says NO To Frunding The Boy Scouts of America As Long As It Continues To Discriminate

Legal Coverage of the Boy Scouts of America's Policy of Discrimination

• The Dale VS BSA Case www.lambdalegal.org
• Villanova University School of Law, Women's Law Forum, Dale VS BSA
• Supreme Court Collection: Boy Scouts of America V. Dale
• The following Document Contains Significant Excerpts from the Supreme Court's Decision, Dale V BSA
• State lawmakers moved yesterday to undermine Tucson's refusal to fund the Boy Scouts over that group's refusal to allow gay Scout leaders.
• New Jersey Law May Evict the BSA from the Use of Its Public Schools
• An Interview with Roy Williams, BSA Chief Scout Executive and Response from Mike Neubacker, Member of Scouting For All
• The BSA is a Public Accomodation the Supreme Court Got It All Wrong
• BSA Lawyers Defend Their Right to Use Florida Public Schools by Comparing Themselves with the Ku Klux Klan
• The Helm's Amendment Passed: Schools Will NOW be Punished for Enforcing Their Anti-discrimination Policies
• HRC CALLS ANTI-GAY HELMS AMENDMENT POLITICAL POSTURING DESIGNED TO INTIMIDATE THOSE WHO VALUE EQUALITY AND OPPOSE DISCRIMINATION
• How the Senate Voted on the Helms Amendment
• Helms Amendment Redundant in Light of 1984 Equal Access Act
• D.C. Panel Reinstates Two Gay Adult Scouts
• The Latest On Powell vs. Oregon Department Of Education Case
• Pool and Geller vs Boy Scouts of America
• Court of Appeal rules against Berkeley Sea Scouts
• Oregon Court Says BSA Can Recruit In Schools / Court Ignores The BSA Discriminates And Thereby Hurts All Children
• County Bar Joins Call to Remove Boy Scout Exception From Canons
• 19th Circuit Court Drops Discriminatory Boy Scout Program- Illinois
  • Court drops Scout program Uproar over funding: Call from ACLU factor in decision
• Boy Scouts Lie To Acquire Taxpayer Funds
• Flip-Flopping on Free Association
• Justice for All - California's high court is conflicted on Scouts
• ACLU SECURES LANDMARK SETTLEMENT IN BOY SCOUT LEASE CASE SAN DIEGO TO END SUPPORT FOR SCOUTS: The lawsuit is Barnes-Wallace v. City of San Diego, case # 00cv1726J
• Supreme Court Won't Revisit Boy Scouts' Ban on Gays
• The Boy Scouts of America Lose Another Appeal To The Court. This Time In San Diego, California
• Action is same as Balboa Park ruling
• BSA Loses: Judge Rules Against Fiesta Island Lease- BSA VS City of San Diego (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• ABA May Bar Judges From Anti-Gay Groups
• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SETTLES PART OF LITIGATION CHALLENGING ITS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
• Campus Christian Group Sues To Exclude Gays
• Boy Scouts of America Settlement with the ACLU
• You Want to Know What The Boy Scouts of America Is Up To: Read This
• Is The Boy Scouts of America Public or Private?
• ACLU takes on Boy Scouts in 9th Circuit - Lesbians want to nix city-owned camp because group 'religious'
• Outright Libertarians Denounce Berkeley California Sea Scouts
• From almost five years ago ---even more important today
• Scouts Don't Discriminate Bush Admin Lawyer Tells Court
• Winkler v.Rumsfeld (BSA Jamboree) Amicus Brief (.pdf)
• Oral Argument In Barnes-Wallace v. BSA (San Diego's Camp Balboa)
• Defense spending bill includes Scout protections Measure could punish localities that bar anti-gay discrimination
• Calif. Supreme Court Upholds Scouts Ouster
• California Supreme Court Upholds The City of Berkeley's Right To Deny Access for a Free Berth at It Marina to the BSA Sea Scouts Because The BSA Violates The City's Anti-discrimination Regulations
• Refusal to Subsidize Scouting Is Upheld Nonprofit groups such as the Boy Scouts that refuse to comply with an anti-bias policy can be denied government support, justices rule.
• Councilman's lease plan would evict Boy Scouts
• Mayor Street Rocks The Cradle, The Legal Possibilities
• Scouts to appeal bias ruling to Supreme Court
• Scouts didn't discriminate against atheist, Supreme Court rules, Oregon
• Oregon high court rules for Scouts, against atheist mother
• Atheists vs the Boy Scouts of America, Oregon

Why are Governments (City, State, Federal) Giving grants to the Boy Scouts of America, a "Private" Organization that Discriminates Against some Segments of the American People?

• Scouts, schools: A new battle: Helms bill Attempts to Punish Public Schools for Enforcing Anti-discimination Policy
• The Democratic Party of Dane County, Wisconsin, February 13, 2002, Adopted A Resolution Opposing Discrimination By The Boy Scouts of America And Funding By The United Way
• Connecticut Appeals Court Decision in Boy Scouts Case
• California Senate Slams Boy Scouts' Anti -Gay Policy
• Sherman Advocacy Challenges Government Funding of Boy Scouts

City, State, and Federal Government Should not Be Supporting a Discriminatory Organization: Boy Scouts of America

• Philadelphia Gives Boy Scouts Ultimatum - November 19, 2007
• Wake Up Boy Scouts -- Hate Costs Money
• NEW LICENSE PLATES HONOR BOY SCOUTS
  • Any Organization In America That Discriminates Against Any Segment of Our Society Should Not Receive City, State, or Federal Support In Any Manner
• The City Council of Philadelphia Should Not Allow the BSA A Dicriminatory Organization To Use Its City Owned Building
• Eagle Scout Asks Monroe County, Florida NOT to Give the Boy Scouts of America Any Favors Until the BSA Discrimination STOPS Brian D. Harper, West Palm Beach, FL
• Newport, Oregon won't rent to Boy Scouts
• A Boy Scouts of America Scout Troop Is Being Sponsored by the State of Kentucky Prison System! State Government Should NOT Be Sponsoring A Discriminatory Youth Program, the BSA.
• Our Sheriff's Department Should NOT Be Funding The Boy Scouts of America Riding, roping in Devore
• Fire Departments Should Not Be Supporting the Boy Scouts of America a Discriminatory Organization
• Bush Administration To Give Boy Scouts' Access to Schools While Ignoring Gay Student Groups
• GOP Tells Gays To Stop Harassing Boy Scouts
• Frist "Save Our Scouts" Bill Fails
• National Boy Scout Organization Agrees to End All Local Government Direct Sponsorship of Troops and Packs
• Federal Government Continues to Support a Bigoted Organization: Bush Admin. honors the BSA While Ignoring Its Discriminatory Policy Against Gay and Atheist youth and adults
• Effort to amend the BSA charter underway...
• Don't Let Congress Endorse the Boy Scouts of America's Religious Discrimination!
• An end run around the Constutition
• Moore files brief backing military support of Scouts
• Freedom Of Association
• Scouts denied funding
• Senator Wiles of Georgia Supports Bigotry: Attempts to penalize the Bank of America for denying the BSA funding
• Rep. Ehrhart of Georgia Supports Bigotry: Attempts to penalize the Bank of America for denying the BSA funding

Pentagon to Cut Off Boy Scouts From Bases

• Scouting activities will go on despite Pentagon sponsorship reminder
• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SETTLES PART OF LITIGATION CHALLENGING ITS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
• Pentagon distances itself from Boy Scouts
• Brass to D-M: Stop sponsoring Boy Scout troop
• Marines cut tie to Scout troops
• The Boy Scouts of America will continue to be allowed to use Department of Defense property
• Judge: No Gov't Money For Boy Scouts Trip

Write to the President of the United States

• Write a letter to the President of the United States
• Steven Cozza, Eagle Scout Asks the President of the U.S. to Resign as the Honorary President of the BSA
  • Bush "Agrees With Boy Scout Ban"
  • Vice President Gore's Letter to Steven Cozza, Eagle Scout
  • Scouting for All Asks President Bush To Step Down As The Honorary President Of The Boy Scouts of America

Addresses to Write to Advocate Against the BSA Policy of Discrimination

• Addresses for National BSA Officials, United Way and the President of the U.S.

Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey, 6th District, California Courageous Stand

• Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, 6th District, California Leads Call for President Clinton to Resign as the Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America
• PFLAG Award to Congressman Pete Stark

Harryette Ehrhardt, State Representative from Texas, Proclamation to Scouting for All

State of Washington's Governor, Gary Locke, Eagle Scout Supports Scouting for All's Efforts and Our National Rally 2001