After a contentious challenge to their membership policy, 1,400 delegates of the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America youth organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth in the organization on Thursday.
The ban on gay adult scout leaders, will remain.
Sixty-one percent of the delegates voted in favor of the resolution while 34 percent voted against it at the organization's National Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas. Read more
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