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 ...

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 ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts. Of the local Scout leaders voting at ...

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 ...

The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America passed a resolution permitting openly gay youth the participate in scouting activities on Thursday afternoon at a national meeting in Grapevine, Texas ...

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 ...

(CNN) – The Boy Scouts of America would no longer deny membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation, but would maintain its ban on openly gay adult leaders under a proposal it is considering ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America has ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders but will allow church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons. The new policy, ...

The last six months haven’t been kind to the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America. A petition to reinstate a rural Ohio Cub Scout leader presented to the organization in July led to at least three major ...

Hundreds of scouts and their leaders will descend on a vacation resort north of Dallas this week to, among other things, take a vote on this new statement: “No youth may be denied membership in the ...