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Celebrities

Watch: Madonna Calls Boy Scouts Policies ‘F*cked Up’ At GLAAD Awards

by David Badash ● 1:11 PM March 18, 2013
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Madonna appeared onstage at Saturday night’s GLAAD Awards while wearing a Boy Scout uniform, lamenting the Scouting organization’s policies as “f*cked up.”

Celebrities

Watch: Former Girl Scout Ellen Degeneres Explains Boy Scouts Ban On Gays

by David Badash ● 3:50 PM February 8, 2013
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Ellen Degeneres yesterday in her opening monologue explained the Boy Scouts’ ban on gay members, and their decision this week to postpone deciding whether or not to drop the ban.

Discrimination

GLAAD Responds To Boy Scouts Decision Postponing Vote On Gay Ban

by David Badash ● 12:45 PM February 6, 2013
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GLAAD today responded strongly to the Boy Scouts surprising announcement that they were postponing a vote to drop their ban on gay people.

Bigotry Watch

Read: Boy Scouts Official Statement On Postponing Gay Ban Decision

by David Badash ● 11:52 AM February 6, 2013
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Here is the official statement from the Boy Scouts of America Executive Board’s announcement they will not be voting today on dropping their national ban on gays.

Bigotry Watch

Watch: Tony Perkins Slammed By CNN For Argument Equating Pedophilia With Gays

by David Badash ● 11:24 AM February 6, 2013
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Tony Perkins told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that the Boys Scouts allowing gays into Scouting will lead to increased instances of child sexual abuse, pedophilia.

Discrimination

Watch: FRC Suggests Gays Are Pedophiles, Demands Boy Scouts Keep Ban on Gays

by David Badash ● 12:53 PM February 4, 2013
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Family Research Council told CNN parents have the right to protect their children from the promotion of homosexuality, and from the “risk of child sexual abuse.”

Bigotry Watch

Rick Perry: Boy Scouts Reduce Teen Pregnancy, So No Gay Boy Scouts

by David Badash ● 2:00 PM February 3, 2013
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Rick Perry weighed in on whether the Boy Scouts should drop their ban on gay people. Of course, the Texas Republican governor said, “no.” Here’s his “reasoning.”

Bigotry Watch

One Million Moms: ‘Allowing Open Homosexuals Will Destroy’ The Boy Scouts

by David Badash ● 3:53 PM January 29, 2013
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One Million Moms could barely wait to jump on the anti-gay bandwagon to rail against the mere possibility that the Boy Scouts of America may drop their ban on gay scouts and leaders.

Bigotry Watch

Fischer: Boy Scouts Dropping Gay Ban Says To Pedophiles, ‘Y’all Come!’

by David Badash ● 11:53 AM January 29, 2013
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Fischer says gay men abuse children ten times more than straight men do, and the Boy Scouts dropping their ban on gays amounts to saying to pedophiles, “Y’all come!”

Hate Groups

Tony Perkins: Homosexual Activists Bullying Boy Scouts Into Dropping Ban On Gays

by David Badash ● 5:34 PM January 28, 2013
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Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, just sent an emergency action alert email claiming that “homosexual activists” are “bullying” the Boy Scouts of America into dropping their ban on gays.

Discrimination

Straight LGBT Activist’s Petition Convinces UPS To Cut Off Anti-Gay Boy Scouts Funding

by David Badash ● 4:58 PM November 12, 2012
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Zach Wahls has finally convinced UPS to drop their funding of the anti-gay Boy Scouts of America, after his Change.org petition drew over 80,000 signatures.

Discrimination

Anderson Cooper Interviews Teen Denied Eagle Scout Rank For Being Gay

by David Badash ● 2:01 PM October 24, 2012
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Anderson Cooper interviewed Ryan Andresen, who has been in Scouting since he was six, about the Boy Scouts’ decision to deny him Eagle Scout rank because he is gay.

Discrimination

Boy Scouts Lose Largest Donor Over Anti-Gay Policies

by David Badash ● 12:48 PM September 22, 2012
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The Boy Scouts have just lost their largest corporate donor over their insistence to exclude — and even expel — from all levels any gay man, teen, or boy.

News

Hundreds Of Boy Scouts’ Child Sex Abuse Cases Covered Up For Decades

by David Badash ● 10:51 AM September 17, 2012
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For decades, the Boy Scouts Of America have been covering up hundreds of child sex abuse cases by Scout leaders, often without notifying police, or victims’ parents.

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