TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa church has told a Boy Scout troop that it won’t renew its sponsorship because of the national organization’s decision not to ban openly gay Scouts.

The decision came the same day Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., announced that it too will drop its Boy Scout program at the end of the year after following the organization’s decision to no longer deny membership to openly gay boys.

Tampa’s Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church sent a letter to leaders of the troop this week and referred to the national organization’s decision.

“We underscore our grief at the decisions made by the BSA which have led to this point,” the letter said.

In May, Boy Scout delegates met in Grapevine, Texas, and by a 61 percent margin of 1,400 voters approved the proposal. The delegation, however, stopped short of allowing gay adults to supervise the youths.

Brian T. FitzGerald, former scoutmaster for Troop 4, said there are about 120 boys in the Boy Scout troop and Cub Scout pack who are being displaced come Dec. 31.

The troops will need to find new sponsors and new chartering organizations.

“Recently, the Boy Scouts of America voted to affirm openly homosexual participation in their organization,” the Rev. Rob Peters, Calvary’s senior pastor, said in a video posted on the church’s website. “This decision is controversial and directly challenges the moral standards of churches across the U.S. sponsoring scout troops.”

Calvary officials said the church would help Scouts pursuing an Eagle Scout rank reach that goal before the end of the year, and that it would help Scouts who want to stay with the Boy Scouts of America find another pack or troop.