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25

Apr
2013

In In the Press

By Scouts for Equality

Scouts for Equality Teaches the World What Scouting Taught Them

On 25, Apr 2013 | In In the Press | By Scouts for Equality

Organization Launches Online Video Campaign Calling for the End of Discrimination

Iowa City, IA – Today, Scouts for Equality (SfE) launched an online video campaign entitled “What Scouting Taught Us”. The campaign includes a series of videos that feature the four co-founders of SfE and highlight the lessons Scouting has taught them. All of the co-founders are straight Eagle Scouts who spent their lives as members of the Boy Scouts and have founded Scouts for Equality to encourage the Boy Scouts of America to eliminate the existing policy which discriminates against gay scouts and scout leaders.

“Through personal narratives the campaign shows that the lessons taught in Scouting instruct their graduates to be good citizens, to treat all people with respect and that the ban is antithetical to the true values they were taught as Boy Scouts,” said Zach Wahls, Eagle Scout and Founder of Scouts for Equality.

The seven videos will be shared over the course of the next 28 days leading up to May 23rd when the Boy Scouts of America will vote on whether to eliminate this discriminatory ban and embrace a policy that truly lives up to the values and lessons the organization teaches its members.

The first video in the series is entitled “Leader” and features Zach discussing his experience of having his openly gay mother, Jacqueline Reger, serve in his childhood Scouting unit as a Den Mother.

“My mom, Jackie, was one of the best Scout leaders you could ever ask for,” said Wahls. “I think her story does a great job helping folks understand what this campaign is all about.”

The release of the ad comes on the heels of a video that is going viral featuring a CNN debate between Wahls and John Stemberger of On My Honor, a group opposed to lifting the BSA’s ban on gay youth and parents.

For more information and to view “Leader” visit www.ScoutsforEquality.com