Perhaps the best summation of how LGBT groups felt about the vote — 61 percent of the 1,400 member Boy Scouts national council supported allowing gay Scouts — is in this Mother Jones headline: "Boy ...

Gay adults and Scoutmasters would be barred from the 103-year-old organization. May 23, 2013 — -- The Boy Scouts of America today voted to lift its longtime national ban on admitting openly gay ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas – The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders – a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization ...

The Boy Scouts of America's decades-long national policy of banning gay scouts and ex-communicating gay scout leaders could be crashing down, set to be replaced by a new policy that would leave ...

Pascal Tessier is 17 but his brother is 21, so excluded from Scouting. Feb. 11, 1014— -- Pascal Tessier, a high school senior from Kensington, Md., looked up to his older brother Lucien and ...

The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts. Dismayed conservatives already are looking at alternative youth groups as ...

You can now be gay and a Boy Scout. The Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday afternoon to allow openly gay youth into their ranks, overturning a ban that had stood for more than 100 years. The group’s ...

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SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - A gay Eagle Scout who says he was fired from his job at a California Boy Scout camp over his sexual orientation delivered a petition on Wednesday with 70,000 signatures asking ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry said emphatically Saturday that the Boy Scouts of America shouldn’t soften its strict no-gays membership policy, and dismissed the idea of bending the ...