Boy Scouts of America

Yesterday, the Boy Scouts of America's National Council, by a 61% margin, voted to accept boys who self-identify as gay into their ranks, i.e., "approved a resolution to remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone". Here is the official statement. Immediate reaction is mixed and pointed, even by the

Just to get this out of the way, I am an Eagle Scout. From about age eight through sixteen, my non-academic life was scouting. I went through Cub Scouts, Webelos, attended countless summer camps, the Sixteenth World Jamboree in Australia in 1987/88, the 1990 US National Jamboree, the 1990 Nippon Jamboree, have held pretty much