Boy Scouts Of America
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Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay Scouts in
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The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership voted Thursday to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members.
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Boy Scouts moves to lift ban on gay members, not leaders
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Under pressure over its longstanding ban on gays, the Boys Scouts of America is proposing to lift the ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders.
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Boy Scouts survey members on whether to keep gay ban
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A questionnaire distributed to 1.1 million adult Scouts uses fictional situations to discern where Scouting's membership falls on questions of homosexuality, gays camping with children and gays in church leadership.
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Boy Scouts gay exclusion vote delayed until May
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Scout officials today decided that any decision on changing the policy on gays will be up to the 1,400 voting members of the group's national council at a meeting in Texas in May.
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Cub Scout pack forced to remove anti-discrimination statement from website
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Cub Scout Pack 442 says it's been forced to remove an anti-discrimination statement from its website in order to keep its charter.
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Boy Scouts considering reversing gay exclusion policy
The Boy Scouts of America is considering a dramatic change in its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members.
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UPS ends funding to Boy Scouts over discrimination
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The philanthropic arm of shipping giant UPS said it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group discriminates against gays, the second major corporation to recently strip funding from the scouts.
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Boy Scouts list revealed; RG3 shines in ‘Skins loss; Referendum update
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Boy Scouts to bring previously missed suspected abusers to light
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The Boy Scouts of America plan to begin doing what critics argue they should have done decades ago — bring suspected abusers named in the organization's so-called perversion files to the attention of police departments and sheriff's offices across the country.
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Report: Boy Scouts 'perversion files' reveal repeat child abuse
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Internal documents from the Boy Scouts of America reveal more than 125 cases in which men suspected of molestation allegedly continued to abuse Scouts, despite a blacklist meant to protect boys from sexual predators.
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Eagle Scout Steven Colella rescinds status over gay members policy
Becoming an Eagle Scout was one of the happiest days of Steven Colella's life. However, as a gay man, he rescinded his status to protest the organization's policy to exclude gay members.
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Boy Scouts will continue to exclude gay people, committee says
The Boy Scouts of America said Tuesday that its remaining steadfast in its policy to exclude gay people from joining or serving as leaders in the organization.
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Boy Scouts gay ban to be reviewed
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The Boy Scouts were presented with a petition, bearing more than 275,000 names, protesting the ouster of a lesbian mother, Jennifer Tyrrell, who'd been serving as a Scout den mother near Bridgeport, Ohio.
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Found: Lost Boy Scout survives after building shelter in 31-degree weather
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Utah authorities say a 12-year-old Boy Scout's survival training and calm response helped him survive a cold overnight stay in the woods.
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