Boy Scouts of America Discussing End to Ban on Gay Members, Leaders

The Boy Scouts of America is "actively considering" ending its decades-long ban on gay scouts and leaders, according to NBC News. 

The new policy would elminate the ban from the national organization's rules and would allow local groups to decide their own policies. 

“The chartered organizations that oversee and deliver scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with their organization’s mission, principles or religious beliefs,” Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts’ national organization, told NBC. 

Discussion of a change in policy is "nearings its final stages." 

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