""The very fact that I'm allowed back in is a sign that things have kind of moved full circle with the Scouting movement," Curran said. "So I'm just sort of getting back on the merry-go-round as it comes around to where I've been standing this whole time.""
"Curran's reunion with the scouts, now known as Scouting America, occurs as the organization has come under pressure from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to end its DEl policies and other social justice, gender-fluid ideological" stances. "Back to God and country - immediately!" read a recent X post by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell."
"Not long after he made the rank of Eagle Scout, Curran, then 18, appeared in a local newspaper feature about "gay teens" in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he grew up and was a member of a Berkeley troop. His sexuality didn't become an issue until he was a college freshman, when Curran applied to be an adult volunteer at a national Scouting event. The Boy Scouts told him that being gay made him "ineligible and unfit to serve," Curran said. The Boy Scouts then expelled him from its ranks. After making failed appeals to the organization, in 1981, Curran filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Scouts in California courts, alleging"
Tim Curran joined the Boy Scouts at 14 and was expelled after he came out as gay. He sued the organization six years after joining, filing a novel lawsuit in 1981 after failed appeals. Fifty-one years after joining, he returned to lead a troop. He characterized his readmission as a sign that Scouting had come full circle and compared it to getting back on a merry-go-round. The organization, now called Scouting America, faces pressure from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell over its policies related to social justice and gender-fluid ideology. Curran's early expulsion followed being labeled ineligible to serve.
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