3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (578+ words) I know that rhetoric. I heard it in 1990 at 19 years old, when the Boy Scouts of America expelled me for being openly gay. I was an Eagle Scout and an assistant scoutmaster in Matawan, New Jersey, and a one-page form…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (206+ words) Members of Honesdale’s BSA Troop 1 and Pack 105 of Scouting America helped mark the 250th anniversary of the United States with a ceremonial flag raising at the Wayne County Courthouse lawn on March 24. David Srebro, program director for the Northeastern Pennsylvania Council,…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago   (19+ words) USA Today Scouting America ends DEI efforts in deal with Pentagon...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago   (353+ words) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Feb. 26 announced the Pentagon will conditionally continue to provide support to Scouting America following the youth organization's "commitment to pull all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from its program." In a video, Hegseth…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (521+ words) Citing ongoing discord over diversity, equity and inclusiveness programs, the U.S. Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Scouting America, the non-profit formerly called the Boy Scouts of America, unless it "rapidly implements" what military officials called "core value…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (227+ words) WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court won’t review a bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America, keeping in place a resolution of tens of thousands of claims against the organization and compensation for sexual abuse survivors. The court on Jan. 12 rejected…...