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Report: Boy Scouts close to dropping national ban on gay members
After being banned for decades, gay youth may soon able to join the Boy Scouts. “The Boy Scouts of America are actively consider dropping their their national ban on gay scouts or gay scout leaders,” NBC’s Pete Williams reported on Monday. According to Williams, the Scouts’ national board or directors…
Tony Perkins: Boy Scouts’ anti-LGBT policies ‘make good citizens’ who are ‘morally straight’
Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins is defending the Boy Scouts of America’s policy banning gay members by saying the organization wanted to “make good citizens” by encouraging scouts to be “morally straight.” In a letter earlier this week, Perkins had blasted UPS CEO D. Scott Davis after the…
Pharmaceutical giant Merck pulls funding from Boy Scouts over anti-LGBT discrimination
Pharmaceutical giant says it will consider giving money again ‘when the organisation’s inclusion criteria has been expanded’ The drugs giant Merck has suspended its funding for the Boy Scouts of America, citing its discrimination against gay people. The maker of top-selling drugs including asthma treatment Singulair and the HPV vaccine…
‘Perversion files’ released on Boy Scouts sex abuse
LOS ANGELES — US scout leaders covered up generations of sexual abuse inflicted on its young members, victims’ lawyers said Thursday, as thousands of pages of so-called “perversion files” were published online. Unveiling details from the 14,500 pages of documents, including handwritten notes, the lawyers said Boy Scouts of America…
Report: Boy Scouts covered up hundreds of child molestation cases
A review of confidential files shows the Boy Scouts of America frequently failed to report instances of child molestation to authorities by either hiding evidence of abuse or allowing suspects to do so, according to a report Sunday by The Los Angeles Times. The newspaper said it reviewed 1,600 cases…
Huckabee: Boy Scouts’ LGBT ban is ‘right decision’ to prevent sex crimes
Fox News host Mike Huckabee on Wednesday said that the Boy Scouts of America’s policy of discriminating against LGBT Americans was the “right decision” to protect young boys from being molested. After a two-year review, Boy Scouts spokesperson Deron Smith on Tuesday announced that the discriminatory rule was “absolutely the…
Boy Scouts’ two-year review finds LGBT ban is ‘absolutely the best policy’
The Boy Scouts of America said on Tuesday that it had conducted a two-year review and would continue its policy of excluding gay men and lesbians. Deron Smith, a spokesperson for the organization, told The Associated Press that a special 11-member committee “came to the conclusion that this policy is…
Chuck Norris attacked over anti-gay Boy Scouts article
A lesbian mother who was ousted as a American boy scout leader because of her sexual orientation has slapped down 1980s action star Chuck Norris after he claimed gay people have no place in the scouting movement. Jennifer Tyrrell, the former leader of her son’s boy scouts troop in Bridgeport,…
Teabagging racist-email-sending Dr.: ‘I’m not a bigot, I did a counseling day for black Boy Scouts’
TPM has caught the conservative movement with its racist pants down again. Actually, we saw so much racist garbage during the campaign from the low-information Base that it was no surprise to find out the Teabagger movement and is apesh*t not just about taxes, but the fact that we have…
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