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Editorial: Boy Scouts of America perpetuate lies about gays
Photo credit: AP | Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian, delivered a petition with 300,000 signatures to the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas urging the organization to reinstate her and abandon its policy of excluding gays. (July 18, 2012)
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The Boy Scouts of America have enforced policies since 1991 that exclude gays from the organization, and the rules have been reviewed multiple times. An 11-member committee recently did a two-year review, concluding that the current practice "is absolutely the best policy" for the century-old institution, according to its spokesman.
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