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“Despite relentless pressure to make its message more politically correct, the Boy Scouts have kept their commitment to keep the organization ‘morally straight.’ Unfortunately for millions of young boys, not everyone in America respects that decision. Instead, their stance on homosexuality has often made the Scouts the target of harassment, ridicule, and now financial bullying. For more than 100 years, …

GLAAD alerts us UPS has dumped the Boy Scouts, who will no longer be getting grants from the shipping giant due to their anti-gay policies.  UPS has posted this statement on their website: The UPS Foundation seeks to support organizations that are in alignment with our focus areas, guidelines, and non-discrimination policy. UPS and The UPS Foundation do not discriminate …

According to a report published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times, the Boy Scouts have shielded hundreds of child molesters from prosecution. A Los Angeles Times review of 1,600 confidential files dating from 1970 to 1991 has found that Scouting officials frequently urged admitted offenders to quietly resign — and helped many cover their tracks. Volunteers and employees suspected of …

Via GLAAD.

This will be the first and only year that Major League Soccer will partner with the Boy Scouts. So far they aren’t saying why, but we can guess. “Major League Soccer’s agreement with the Boy Scouts of America expires at the end of the 2012 season and MLS does not intend the renew the agreement for a variety of business …

Family Research Council They deserve a major pat on the back. They have defied the winds of political correctness and have said ‘no’ to a culture that wants us to accept as normative a pattern of sexual behavior which clearly violates God’s intended design for men and women. Concerned Women For America [The CWA] strongly supports the rights of the …

After a two year review, today the Boy Scouts issued a statement reaffirming its ban on openly gay Scout members or leaders. 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. …

This time with bags over their fugly heads!

Huge cheers for them from the crowds: “Some of my best memories from my boyhood are of my scouting days,” Takei told GLAAD. “I played bass bugle in our troop’s drum and bugle corps. We marched in Fourth of July parades. We learned teamwork and brotherhood from camping together. The Boy Scouts built my character. As an adult, I was …

Speaking at Netroots with Think Progress blogger Zack Ford.

But don’t hold your breath. The Boy Scouts of America will review a resolution that would allow individual units to accept gays as adult leaders, but a spokesman says there’s no expectation that the ban on gay leaders will in fact be lifted any time soon. The resolution was submitted by a Scout leader from the Northeast in April and …

GLAAD reports: Outspoken advocate, author and Eagle Scout, Zach Wahls, today delivered more than 275,000 signatures to the Boy Scouts of America at its National Annual Meeting in Florida, calling on the group to end its long history of anti-gay discrimination and reinstate Ohio mom Jennifer Tyrrell, who was forcibly removed as den leader of her son’s Boy Scouts troop …

GLAAD today kicked the current Boy Scouts controversy into the lap of Mitt Romney, digging out the above 1994 quote. Over 155,000 people have already signed the petition asking the Boy Scouts to reinstate den mother Jennifer Tyrrell, who was booted from her volunteer position for being gay.

The City of Philadelphia has been ordered to pay the Boy Scouts almost $900,000 for trying to evict them from a city building over their stance on openly gay troop leaders. A federal judge on Wednesday denied the city’s request for a new trial in a case that has lasted nearly a decade. Mayor Nutter said the city was reviewing …

Copyranter has more.

The Boy Scouts have booted Virginia mom Denise Steele from her position as den mother after the Christian sponsors of her son’s troop discovered that Steele has been partnered with another woman for 19 years. Phil Holliday, the executive pastor at Christian Fellowship Church and Esther Schaeffer, the charter organization representative, say they are simply following the rules. When a …

A Philadelphia federal jury has ruled unanimously that the city violated the First Amendment rights of the Boy Scouts when it used the group’s anti-gay policies in an attempt to evict them from their city-owned building. “We can’t be kicked out of the building or evicted and we don’t have to pay any rent,” Scouts’ attorney William M. McSwain said …