Recently, the Scouts began to break the news of a possible policy change to their members.
Joey Robinson, a spokesman for the Scouts, defended its right to set its membership policies.
Hundreds of thousands of people have petitioned the Scouts to allow gay kids to participate.
The Scouts still might find itself in dire financial straits thanks to the civil lawyers, however.
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Wednesday's move maintains the Scouts' longstanding policy of keeping gays out of the organization.
The Scouts didn't say how the Irving, Texas, organization had arrived at the proposed change.
Or is this not about the well-being of the Scouts, but the funding for the organization?
The problem may be that the Scouts are listening too much instead of making decisions with conviction.
The Scouts announced they might let the sponsor of each troop decide its own policy on gays.
Several thousand well-wishers and tourists, as well as the scouts and their families, lined the castle's courtyard.
He added that the decision was not meant to approve or condemn the Scouts' view on homosexuality.
While Green-Ellis has always been stingy with fumbles, his NFL streak wasn't something the scouts could have predicted.
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More conservative members have advocated maintaining the ban, which the Scouts defended before the Supreme Court in 2000.
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Unlike the Scouts, however, the Pathfinders operate as a church-based ministry, with a priority placed on community service.
The Scouts have been under pressure from swaths of its membership and some corporate sponsors to end the ban.
Among parents, 45% opposed the existing ban, while 42% supported it, according to the research cited by the Scouts.
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Chief Executive Randall Stephenson, vowed last year to work internally to make the Scouts more welcoming to gays.
The scouts at French fashion house Chanel have a justly earned reputation for recognizing beauty when they see it.
The Scouts' turnabout highlights how quickly American attitudes on gay rights are shifting.
He brought mountaineering to schoolchildren (remembering how he had discovered it in the Scouts in Hammersmith), and to the disabled.
Since she joined the scouts more than 2, 800 new adult volunteers have joined up - the second biggest rise since 1986.
Throughout 2012, the Scouts were lobbied by organizations that collected more than one million signatures asking it to overturn the ban.
The Scouts' new proposal was immediately condemned by some conservative groups who say it undermines the moral integrity of the organization.
The 18-year-old, together with Rob Hulse, has formed a 23-goal partnership that has attracted regular interest from the scouts of Premiership clubs.
The glorious thing about the Scouts is that none of that mattered.
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It is about local communities working with the Scouts to decide on projects that they can do to make things better locally.
The scouts' methodology isn't the same as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's.
Through Game Design, its newest merit badge, the Boy Scouts of America is opening the door for Scouts to put their creativity to the test.
But Jay L. Lenrow, the former national chairman of the Jewish Committee on Scouting, said continuing the ban violates the Scouts' pluralistic mission.
It remains unclear how the Scouts would implement such a plan and contend with the patchwork of conflicting local policies that could result.
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