'I think as long as they stay off of you, they're fine, that's all.' Other troop members nodded, even Gutta, despite his own discomfort. He knows a few gays back home and thinks they're OK. Noah Kinney, a shy 15-year-old, challenged his friends. Yet within Troop 1320, as in many scouting gatherings around the country, there is no easy consensus. 'A lot of people don't feel comfortable around homosexuals.' 'They say everybody should have the right to be in the Scouts, but everybody has the right to feel comfortable, too,' he said. Keep them out of scouting? 'Exactly,' he declared.
'In the Bible, it's a sin to be gay,' said Moran, 15, as the sun glinted off his dyed blue hair.
Despite the heat wave, over the next 10 days they would help 32,000 other Scouts burn through 76,000 hamburgers, 479,000 eggs, 10 tons of beef stew-and countless hours energetically addressing a controversy that will not fade. Jeff Moran and some friends from Troop 1320 dropped onto the lawn near Trading Post 13 last Tuesday, a sweltering morning during the 15th Boy Scouts Jamboree at Fort A.P.
