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Boy Scouts of America to ask ruling board’s permission to end gay ban
A spokesperson for the Boy Scouts of America announced Friday that the group intends to drop its ban on openly gay members. According to Reuters, however, the Scouts’ ruling board must still vote in May whether to ratify the end of the discriminatory ban. If the ruling goes through, said…
Carly Rae Jepson and Train withdraw from Boy Scout Jamboree citing anti-gay policy
“Call Me Maybe” singer Carly Rae Jepson announced Tuesday that they will not be playing at the Boy Scouts of America’s 2013 National Scout Jamboree this summer because of the Scouts’ ban on LGBT members and staff. According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD)’s website, Jepson and…
LA Times publishes Boy Scout sex abuse records
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times published a trove of previously unreleased documents from the Boy Scouts of America that reveal the organization’s records on volunteers and leaders charged with sexual misconduct toward scouts. The 1,200 files, from which the names and identifying information of the victims have been redacted,…
Teen denied Eagle Scout for disobeying ‘duty to God’ by being gay
The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday said that they had denied a gay California teen Eagle Scout honors because he had not lived up to the principle of “duty to God” with his sexual orientation. The Scoutmaster for Troop 212 in Moraga decided that Ryan Andresen was “no longer…
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…
Eagle Scouts resign to protest Scouts’ anti-LGBT policy
Last week, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it has no intention of changing its policy of not allowing openly LGBT people to serve within its ranks or work with the scouting program. Now, according to the Atlantic a protest movement is roiling the organization from within as generations…
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…
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