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LOOK: 8-Year-Old Writes Adorable Letter Asking Boy Scouts To Allow Gay Participants

Posted 02.27.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Gay Rights, LGBT Issues, Boy Scouts of America Gay Policy, Boy Scouts of America, Boy Scouts, Boy Scouts Anti-Gay Policy, Cub Scout Gay Rights Letter, LGBT Rights, Boy Scouts Gay Policy, Boy Scouts Gays, Cub Scouts, Gay Issues, Boy Scouts Gay Ban, Gay Voices News

An 8-year-old Cub Scout has penned a poignant letter asking the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay participants. The boy, identified in the letter...

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My Years as a Boy Scout and the 'Values' of Scouting

Davis Schneiderman | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
Read More: Family Research Council, Boys Scouts, W.D. Boyce, Boy Scouts of America, Bsa, Red Dawn, Cub Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, Tony Perkins, Akela, Politics News
Davis Schneiderman

I can still tie a clove hitch, but unless BSA enshrines non-discrimination as a "value" of scouting as a start to a large discussion about the place of scouting in the 21st century, I can't be proud of much else for all my years with Akela.

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Emma Diab

Robert Wolniewicz: Little Kid, Big Heart

HuffingtonPost.com | Emma Diab | Posted 12.15.2012 | Impact
Read More: Huffington, Robert Wolniewicz, Helping Angel, Huffington Magazine, Huffmag, Midwest Tornadoes, Helping Angel.org, Cub Scouts, Tornadoes, Angel Babcock, Impact News

(Photo by Ken Richardson) Robert Wolniewicz was an expert of sorts on tornadoes. He’d studied their destructive power and prepared an emergency...

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Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

Chris Wiewiora | Posted 09.24.2012 | College
Read More: Friendship, Cub Scouts Story, Growing Up, Cub Scouts, Friendship Growing Up, Growing Up Lessons, College News
Chris Wiewiora

I want to say that I'm still living at home, because I'm in a gap year after college. That I'll be leaving soon and moving across the country with the girl I love and pursuing my dream. But because he doesn't ask me anything, I don't ask Stephan what he is doing now either.

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Gay in the BSA

Philippe Dunbar | Posted 09.17.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts Gays, Tolerance, Boy Scouts of America, Boy Scouts Gay Ban, Gay Voices News
Philippe Dunbar

After leaving the Boy Scouts, I felt betrayed by their anti-gay policy. The policy was contradicting the other values taught by the Scouts about respecting others and their beliefs. And even though I felt the Boy Scouts taught many important values, this was one I did not want to support.

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Restaurant Donates Over 10,000 Dollar Bills Collected On Its Walls

Posted 01.30.2012 | Impact
Read More: Dollar Bills, Video, St. Jude's Research Center, Casey Carson, Charity, Fat Smitty's Restaurant, Boy Scouts, Camp Parsons Kitchen, Carl Schmidt, Cub Scouts, Donations, Impact News

The tradition started when a traveling salesman tacked a single dollar bill with his name on it to the wall of Fat Smitty's restaurant in Discovery Ba...

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Conn. Man Protects 1,000 Acres Of Trails

Tolland Patch | Posted 01.19.2012 | Impact
Read More: Veteran, Joshua's Trust, Vietnam War, Boy Scouts, Conservation Corps, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Environment, Conservation, Ken Hankinson, Cub Scouts, Tolland, Impact News

Tolland resident Ken Hankinson has an important mission with some serious obstacles; he wants to conserve Tolland's open space and natural beauty with...

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Cub Scouts Wreak Havoc On Alinea Kitchen

Posted 05.30.2011 | Home
Read More: Pizza, Grant Achatz, Alinea, Alinea Restaurant, Cub Scouts, Next Restaurant, Dough, Pizza Dough, Video, Home News

It's a privilege for any young chef to cook inside the Alinea kitchen and for this pack of seven-year-old Cubs Scouts, culinary training came early. T...

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Scouts Learn: It's Scary to be Hungry

Tonic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Halloween, Pennsylvania, Halloween Parade, Halloween Parade Donate, Cub Scouts, Giving Back, Impact News

While most children think of October as the time of the year when they get to spend one night amassing a year's worth of treats, one Cub Scout troop f...

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Jon Langbert, Gay Dad, Ousted As Cub Scout Volunteer

aolnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Boy Scouts Gays, Boy Scouts, Jon Langbert, Cub Scouts, Jon Langbert Cub Scouts, Home News

Last week, backed by a Supreme Court case 10 years ago that ruled the Boy Scouts aren't required to accept gay members or leaders, the group ousted La...

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6 Year Old Zachary Christie Sentenced to 45 Days in Reform School for Bringing Camping Knife to School ... to Eat Lunch With

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Please Help Zachary, Education, Zero-Tolerance-Policy, Delaware, Boy Scout, Knife, Knives, Cub Scouts, Schools, Zachary Christie, Healthy Living News
Dr. Tian Dayton

Isn't Zachary the sort of child that Delaware's Zero tolerance policy was put in place to protect? And aren't his parents just the kind we want to support and respect?

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