The group's president Tony Perkins said in a statement that the decision was "another casualty in moral compromise".
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, a conservative group, said in a statement: "If the board capitulates to the bullying of homosexual activists, the Boy Scouts' legacy of producing great leaders will become yet another casualty of moral compromise.
While moral objections to civilian casualties are a powerful reason to reconsider drone operations, my research suggests that strategic concerns, like a surge in local violence or increased recruitment of targeted organizations, are not.
It is just possible to deplore civilian casualties and retain moral credibility when an action is clearly focused and its goals are on the way to evident achievement.
Mr. Reid's underlying message of hope does not preclude an intensely satisfying quotient of moral outrage at the worst casualties of our system as it stands.
One might say that insofar as the officials resisting Trump are trying to prevent his temperamental unfitness from leading to some mass-casualty disaster or moral infamy, they are doing the country a great service.
"We have a moral obligation to avoid civilian casualties.
This moral confidence, and the lower rates of casualties (until two years ago), help to explain why, for a long time, Afghanistan was overshadowed by Iraq in British debate.
"We will surely suffer casualties, but we have a moral obligation to win this war," Gen. Euclides Sánchez, the army's second in command, told Colombian radio.
In such a contest, civilian casualties are not only a moral issue; they constitute a front in a social-media contest over justice and credibility.
