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Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.