Pascal Tessier's story is truly inspiring. When Tessier turned 18 last August, he wrote a letter to the Boy Scouts of America saying he could no longer be a member because of the group's policy to ban gay adults in the Boy Scouts. "Today is my 18th birthday, a milestone on my path...
NEW YORK --The Boy Scouts' New York chapter has hired the nation's first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader in public contrast to the national scouting organization's ban on openly gay adult members. The Boy Scouts' Greater New York Councils said Thursday they have hired Pascal...
NEW YORK (AP) — Under pressure over its long-standing ban on gays, the Boys Scouts of America is proposing to lift the ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders. The Scouts announced Friday that the proposal would be submitted to the roughly 1,400 voting members...
Boy Scouts Reconsiders No-Gays PolicyNEW YORK - The Boy Scouts of America may soon give sponsors oftroops the authority to decide...Crary, David
NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with a firm denial from the Boy Scouts, the White House on Wednesday corrected President Donald Trump’s claim in an interview that the head of the youth group called him to heap praise on a politically aggressive speech Trump delivered at the Scouts’ national jambor...
"The lion's share of the credit here goes to the New York council for stepping up to the plate. There are a lot of chapters that say they don't discriminate, but they just talk the talk. The Boy Scouts in New York walk the walk." Despite Tessier's win again...
September 28th, 2021, Mr. del Rosario invited scouts to participate in the national launch of the new merit badge, "Citizenship in Society" via zoom Thursdays, Sept 30 and Oct. 7. Fitz and Jordan were among the first in the nation to complete the NEW merit badge which will be required ...
Grimaldi, currently a lifeguard at a Boy Scouts camp in upstate New York, said the experience was “surreal.” But he said his multiple CPR and first aid trainings, both as a scout and a lifeguard, meant he was prepared. “I was very nervous in the moment, but it didn’t stop me ...
Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1.Boy Scouts of America- a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training corp,corporation- a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been ap...
By MIHIR ZAVERI The New York Times The Boy Scouts of America said this week that the organization would create a “diversity and inclusion” merit badge and make earning it a requirement of becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest scouting rank. The nonprofit also joined a growing n...