The Dallas arm of the Boy Scouts, the Circle Ten Council, has yet to take a public stance on ending the ban on gay scouts, which the National Board will vote on May 28.

Dallas scouts are awaiting the decision, but some don’t think it will affect their specific troops.

“Most of the scouts now, that I know, have sort of settled into a place in the troop so I can’t see them coming out,” Mark Moebius, a Dallas boy scout, said.

“I think the troop’s going to handle it pretty fine. Most of the adults, at least a little bit, [are] conservative in some sense, but I think they’re more liberal in that kind of sense,” said Mark Morris, a Dallas Eagle scout.

So far, many scoutmasters have not spoken on the topic.

“I don’t think [the scoutmaster will] confront it unless something happens,” Moebius said.

“I think they might mention it a little bit, but I don’t think they’re going make it that big of a deal,” Morris said.

The scoutmaster from troop 82, which meets at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, said that they’ve asked scouts to consider their views on gay scouts in private and that they would not be discussing it as part of their program.

Whether the ban is lifted or not, both current and past scouts plan to welcome gay scouts.

“I think it’ll be good for the Boy Scouts. I mean, when I was a teenager in Boy Scouts, I think I might have been a little uncomfortable with it, you know, sleeping in tents with someone you know is gay, but now looking back, I think it’ll be good,” Andrew Klitch, a boy scout alumnus, said.

“I’d imagine, at least in my troop, if they came out we’d be like, good for you and stuff,” Morris said.

“I would welcome [a gay scout] like I would any other person,” Moebius said.