I'm not a worrier, but I do like being prepared -- Boy Scouts can do that sort of thing to you -- and keeping a charge on my iPhone 4S at all times is a must in my book.
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Even now, gender-restricted environments start early, when children join Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts or other gender-specific activities.
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Mother Meg, the matron saint of eBay, is now settling in as den mother of the Hewlett-Packard boy and girl scouts.
During the 2012 presidential election, nominees from both major parties - Barack Obama and Mitt Romney - said the Boy Scouts should include gay members and leaders.
Its first commercial is a very Norman Rockwell-like, father-and-son camping trip -- if Rockwell replaced Boy Scouts with Jelly Beans, that is.
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President Barack Obama -- the honorary head of the Scouts, as is every president -- supports gay and lesbians in Girl and Boy Scouts, as does former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a Mormon.
Second edition is suitable for boys between 11-18 which includes Webelos (2nd-year) to old Boy Scouts, Venturers and Varsity Scouts.
Instead, conservatives would argue that education, earned success and the all-important mediating institutions -- families, churches, communities, private and philanthropic enterprises, associations of coaches, teachers, parents, doctors, civil servants and religious and non-religious volunteers, the Boy Scouts and other worthy mentoring groups, all what Edmund Burke called the "little platoons" that make up healthy civil society -- are the pillars of upward mobility.
We urge the national council to vote against this resolution and uphold the time-tested membership policy of the Boy Scouts.
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According to a recently released report from the Boy Scouts, police were notified in two-thirds of alleged abuse cases from 1965-1985.
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"It is up to each (local) council and each voting member of the National Council to determine how to fulfill these obligations in a manner that fulfills their responsibility to both the Boy Scouts of America and to their local council, " Scouts spokesman Smith wrote in an e-mail.
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The Boy Scouts of America said it was reconsidering its anti-gay policy.
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Meanwhile, one of Bieber's support acts - fellow Canadian chart-topper Carly Rae Jepsen - has pulled out of a concert for the Boy Scouts of America because of the organisation's ban on gay members.
Congressional Quarterly reported that John voted with Bush 70 percent of the time, including for President Bush's tax cut, for the ban on partial-birth abortions, for barring gays in the Boy Scouts and for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are among scouting's biggest backers, Boy Scouts of America says.
And as such, believes -- that gay Americans ought to be able to participate in the Boy Scouts.
Membership of parent-teacher associations, sports groups, political parties and organisations such as the Boy Scouts or Rotary are all in sharp decline.
In 2011, Mormon-backed Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops accounted for more than 420, 000 of all Scouts nationwide.
Well, OK. I had a terrible and traumatic time in the Boy Scouts and I saw firsthand what it was like to be the subject of discrimination - if you will - in my troop, where it wasn't so much that I was Asian but just sort of like a fat kid with glasses.
Girls can participate in the Boy Scouts through its subsidiary group, Exploring, and a Girl Scout troop in Colorado allowed a 7-year-old transgender child into its ranks last year, although some later protested with cookie boycotts.
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