The Department of War warned Scouting America, the organisation formerly known as the Boy Scouts, that they needed to comply ...

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 ...

In November, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed opposition to Scouting America’s ‘attack on boy-friendly spaces’ ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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