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Boy Scouts executive committee OKs ending ban on gay leaders
In a statement Monday, the BSA said the resolution was approved by the 17-member executive committee on Friday, and would become official policy if ratified by the organization’s 80-member National Executive Board at a meeting on July 27.
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Philadelphia boy scout council affirms policy allowing gay adult leaders
The Cradle of Liberty Council vote Friday bans discrimination based on sexual orientation for scouts, leaders and employees.
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Boy Scouts’ leader says ban on gay adults no longer sustainable
The president of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, said Thursday that the organization’s longstanding ban on participation by openly gay adults is no longer sustainable and called for change in order to prevent “the end of us as a national movement.”
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New York attorney general warns Boy Scouts on state laws prohibiting discrimination
New York’s attorney general’s office wrote this week to the Boy Scouts of America nationally, advising that state and city laws prohibit hiring discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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N.Y. Boy Scouts council hires gay Eagle Scout despite national ban on openly gay adults
The Boy Scouts’ New York chapter has hired the nation’s first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader in public contrast to the national scouting organization’s ban on openly gay adult members.
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Utah House vote on LGBT anti‑discrimination bill pushed to Tuesday
The bill protects gay and transgender people from discrimination in housing and employment, but religious organizations and their affiliates such as schools and hospitals are exempt.
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Utah LGBT non‑discrimination bill exempts Boy Scouts, religious groups
The proposal unveiled in the heavily Mormon state prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in the areas of housing and employment.
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Some California judges with ties to Boy Scouts question ban
The California Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to prohibit state judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts and other youth groups that discriminate against gays comes against the wishes of some jurists with ties to scouting.
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California bars judges from joining Boy Scouts due to anti-gay discrimination
California’s Supreme Court voted Friday to prohibit state judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts on grounds that the group discriminates against gays.
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Boy Scouts membership falls 7 percent last year, continuing decade-long decline
Last year was also the first full year the Texas-based organization was open to openly gay youth, a compromise approved by its national leadership in 2013. But the organization still excludes openly gay adult volunteers.