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# Boy Scouts End Ban On Openly Gay Leaders

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## Transcript

The boy Scouts National Council is set to approve a resolution lifting the ban on openly gay adults working in leadership positions, like counselors or den leaders. The new measures will also bar discrimination based on sexual orientation for all paid positions within the organization. We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it would be. The status quo in our movements memberships standards cannot be sustained. This change follows years of internal strife within the organization As it struggles to keep up with increasing LGBT acceptance in the US. The Scouts' conservative stance on the issue has been herding the group's public and financial support, and also threatens to land the organization in legal trouble.

But the Scouts also can't risk angering religious groups. The New York times reported 70 % of Scouting units are sponsored by churches. So although the general ban on gay leaders could be lifted, individual groups can still bar LGBT individuals from serving. Scout leader Michael Harrison, who lobbied to change the BSA policy, told the Times the decision doesn't mean the Mormons have to pick a gay scout master, but please don't tell the Unitarians they can't. Both the Mormon Church Perch and the national committee on scouting, two major religious sponsors of the scouts, expressed support of the rule change, while still emphasizing their right to select leaders that are in accord with their doctrine.

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