Gay scouting

The Boy Scouts of America is expected to end its ban on openly gay leaders in a limited manner Monday, a historic decision for one of the nation’s largest youth organizations, whose.

On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. A Scout is: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. I was not athletic or popular in school.

Gay author Christopher Bram recounts how scouting helped him make it through adolescence and discover his true self.

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These Friends feel that Quakers should not be involved in Scouting at all. While there is no global consensus on the issue, the Scout associations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States welcome gay, lesbian, and transgender youth and adults. Scouting America BSA currently admits boys and young men of all ages and young women over the age of 14 as members, Girl Guides of Canada and Girl Guiding UK admit only girls as members and only women as adult volunteers, while Scouts Canada and the The Scout Association UK admit boys and girls as members and men and women as adult volunteers.

The Boy Scouts of America is expected to end its ban on openly gay leaders in a limited manner Monday, a historic decision for one of the nation’s largest youth organizations, whose.

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