Boy Scouts To Reconsider Ban on Gay Members, Leaders Next Week

The Boy Scouts of America could reverse its decades-old ban on allowing gay members and leaders as early as next week, leaving the decision to local troops.

Just seven months after the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed its decades-old ban on admitting gay members and leaders, the organization said it could reverse that policy as early as next week. Scout officials announced Monday that the organization is considering amending its policy against homosexual participation in favor of allowing local troops to decide on their own, NBC News reports. If the policy change is approved at next week's national executive board meeting the ban would be eliminated from the scout's rules. "The chartered organizations that oversee and deliver scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with their organization’s mission, principles or religious beliefs,” Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Boy …

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