By DAVID CRARY The Associated Press NEW YORK — After a confidential two-year review, the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday emphatically reaffirmed its policy of excluding gays, ruling out any changes despite relentless protest campaigns by some critics An 11-member special committee, formed discreetly by top Scout leaders in 2010, "came to the conclusion that this policy is absolutely the best policy for the Boy Scouts," the organization' national spokesman, Deron Smith, told The Associated Press. [ the rest ]
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Don't even get me started on this one. The whole Penn State child abuse thing will only get people roiled up even more.
Will someone please explain that pedophilia, sexual abuse of children and rape are entirely different things than same-sex attraction?
My own poor children missed out on the joys of scouting because of my stance on this one. At the time, they whined. But today they get it.
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