Southern Baptists To Vote On Recommendation To Cut Ties With Boy Scouts Over Gay Membership Issue

CNN reported Friday that the Southern Baptists at their convention in Houston on June 11-12 will vote on a non-binding resolution urging the denomination's 45,000 congregations to cut their ties with the Boy Scouts after the Scout's recent decision to allow gay youths to be Boy Scout members. Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said:

There’s a 100% chance that there will be a resolution about disaffiliation at the convention and a 100% chance that 99% of people will vote for it. Southern Baptists are going to be leaving the Boy Scouts en masse.

Baptist churches sponsor nearly 4000 scout units. Various religious conservatives are looking at forming an alternative group that would continue to deny membership to gays.